Defense Medical Data Dictionary (DMDD) Files

The DMDD documents the medical research systems used by the agency and the types of information these systems collected. This series contains information on data elements in medical fielded database systems in the Department of Defense.

Records include such information as the system name, the field name, the organization responsible for the field, reference, occurrences, functional area, the data the element was imported into DMDD, and a description of the element. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.