Hospitalization Rates for Military Women: Feasibility and Design of a Tri-ServiceRelational Database Architecture Allowing Service-Specific and Tri-Service Reporting

摘要

Congress authorized a multi-service research program focusing on defense women'shealth needs and mandated development of a database to support it. Collaboration with the Air Force and Army on data architecture and design throughout this project in response to that mandate resulted in the development of a plan and the completion of initial steps to evaluate the feasibility of a relational database architecture to support future joint service research. Accomplishments included: (1) The Navy fully documented its existing database, quality assurance procedures, system specifications, data requirements, and data communication procedures, (2) Medical and career history data on Navy officers and Marine Corps personnel were added to the Navy database, (3) Data on eight disorders in women were extracted by each service from service specific data sources and analyzed, and a research paper was written describing this prototype analysis, and (4) Prototype Oracle and Sybase relational databases were developed for Navy data, on a limited data set. This project transitioned to a continuing tri-service database development project under the Advisory Committee on Research Databases of the Defense Women's Health Research Program.