Mean CARE measure score was correlated significantly with grade (Spearman's rho 0.493, p < 0.05), with non-trainees having the lowest scores, basic trainees in family medicine having intermediate scores, and fellows of family medicine having the highest; mean CARE scores 29.9 (SD 3.99), 33.9 (SD 4.61) and 36.8 (SD 4.46), respectively, p = 0.055).
As a highly vaccinated population, military personnel, and basic trainees in particular, can provide critical information regarding the effectiveness of each year's influenza vaccine formulations.
Even though A/Mayo Clinic titers >1 20 were seen in Fort Dix populations other than basic trainees, the prevalences in young people were very low, consistent with heterotypic antibody.
For a given number of patients per doctor, the reliability co-efficient was slightly higher for the non-family doctor group (non-trainees and basic trainees) compared with the family doctor group (fellows and specialist in family medicine) but even for the latter a reliability of 0.8 was achieved with less than 30 patients per doctor.
After emphasizing pre-deployment education and other basic prevention measures, trainees in the following year had lower incidence (1/278 = 0.4%; P < 0.001).
In light of these and other studies, and acknowledging the continued debate regarding screening asymptomatic persons for anemia, Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA -Lackland staff began screening all incoming US Air Force (USAF) basic trainees for anemia in JBSA -Lackland
Marine Corps basic trainees represented 35% (9/26) of the total military cases but only 2% of the military population.
Eight new cases in basic trainees were found.
When the serologic data were extrapolated, the total number of A/New Jersey infections in Fort Dix basic trainees was ≈230 when contacts of all 13 case-patients were considered and ≈142 when only virologically confirmed cases were considered true cases (11, 15 ).
Basic trainees were selected by identifying their first demographic record in the DMDC database and must have had a rank E1 to E4 and 17 35 years of age at that first record.
