MHS

General description

The Military Health System (MHS) contains records of all healthcare events paid for by the MHS, regardless of setting. It includes records of all beneficiary data, and service-related information while the clinical data contains information on vital signs, body mass index, chemistry, microbiology, and pathology lab results. Most of the clinical data is only available from 2009 and forward, while the administrative data sources go back further, some as far as 1989.

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Related publications

• Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW)
• The Impact of Pre-Existing Mental Health Disorders on the Diagnosis, Treatment and Survival among Lung Cancer Patients in the U.S. Military Health System
• Deployment and Travel Medicine Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Outcomes Study (KAPOS): Malaria Chemoprophylaxis Prescription Patterns in the Military Health System