MEDTAG: An Evaluation of Three Data Input Methods for Battlefield MedicalDocumentation

摘要

Historically, the Field Medical Card (FMC) has been used to provide the clinicaldocumentation that moves with a casualty during evacuation. The Department of Defense (DoD) Medical Readiness Strategic Plan (MRSP), promulgated in February 1988, determined that the FMC was deficient, and a quad-service working group was formed to develop a revised card. Consensus among the services determined that the revised card captured all of the information needed at the first and second echelons of medical treatment, and that its format was an improvement over the original card. Field tests, however, revealed that the amount and accuracy of the information obtained with the revised card was significantly less than what was obtained with the original card (Wilcox Pugh, 1990). This result underscored the need to evaluate empirically any modifications to medical data collection procedures.