Does your Military Treatment Facility Have an Informaticist?Matthew Barnes
Uribe-Leitz, Jarman and colleagues studied access to obstetric care across the U.S. They looked at areas that were within a 30-minute travel time of a medical facility capable of providing emergency c-section care. The team identified 3 MTFs that were the only facility within a 30-minute ...
Construction of an Integrated Surgical Suite in a Military Treatment Facilityminimally invasive surgeryMISintegrated surgical suiteOR constructionThe OR has long existed as a highly specialized and distinct entity within a hospital. Recent technological advances have allowed the OR to be seamlessly ...
Army nursing students work one-on-one with an experienced Army nurse preceptor to receive an intense clinical experience with a minimum of 150 h of hands-on patient care in a military medical treatment facility. This example of cognitive apprenticeship learning provides an adjunct to nursing prog...
regardless of service, status, or location, not only relieves the patient of the need to copy and carry their records with them when visiting a new facility, but also ensures different providers will not need to repeat the same tests multiple times because they can’t access earlier test resu...
(trade name: Lunesta) as part of a deployment or routine visit to a military treatment facility for sleep complaints (Devine et al., unpublished data). Sleep pharmaceuticals largely target inhibitory pathways through GABA signaling, resulting in reduced short-term and long-term neurobehavioral ...
Reports flow not only through DoD communication channels but also to the local and state health departments within which the military treatment facility is located. The military healthcare system is run by the TRICARE Management Activity under the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (U...
MTF indicates military treatment facility. Table 1. Summary Statistics of TRICARE Beneficiary Distribution by MTF and Civilian Psychiatrist Shortage Areasa View LargeDownload Table 2. Logistic Regression Odds Ratios for Access to Psychiatrists Within 30-Minute Drive View LargeDownload Supplement 1. e...
According tomHealth Intelligence, a 2011 law removed a federal requirement that healthcare for service members be delivered in a military facility. While that legislation expanded telemedicine services, it didn't pertain to healthcare providers in TRICARE and it didn't allow telemedicine to be delive...
PTSD treatment for soldiers after combat deployment: low utilization of mental health care and reasons for dropout. Afghanistan (75% response rate).Of 4,674 cohort soldiers referred to mental health care at a military treatment facility, 75% followed up with this ... Charles,W,Hoge,... - ...