Defense health care
Subtitle: comprehensive oversight framework needed to help ensure the effective implementation of a deployment health quality assurance program : report to the ranking member, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives
Contributors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
Publisher: United States Government Accountability Office
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Military Medicine; Health Care Quality Assurance; Methods; Organization & administration; Data Collection; United States. Dept. of Defense; United States
Other titles: Defense healthcare : comprehensive oversight framework needed to help ensure the effective implementation of a deployment health quality assurance program
Notes: Cover title.

"June 2007."

"GAO-07-831."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-37).

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Table of contents: title: Letter (Results in brief; Background; DOD has a system in place to comply with requirements for deployment medical examinations; DOD has established a deployment health quality assurance program, but the lack of a comprehensive oversight framework hampers effective implementation; Conclusions; Recommendations for executive action; Agency comments and our evaluation); title: Appendix I. Scope and methodology; title: Appendix II. Pre- and postdeployment health assessment questionnaires; title: Appendix III. Individual medical readiness; title: Appendix IV. Comments from the Department of Defense; title: Appendix V. GAO contact and staff acknowledgments; title: Related GAO products.