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    Former Prisoner of War Statistical Tracking System

    Metadata Updated: August 2, 2025

    The Former Prisoner of War (POW) Statistical Tracking System database is a registry designed to comply with Public Law 97-37, the Former Prisoner of War Benefits Act of 1981. This database contains information about the Medical Evaluation Program for ex-POWs at VA facilities. The program provides a complete medical and psychiatric evaluation of ex-POWs. Only ex-POWs who volunteer to participate in the program are included in this registry. Health examinations are given to ex-POWs at VA facilities. The findings are then recorded on a special coding sheet, VA Form 10-0048a. Quarterly, these code sheets are sent to the Austin Information Technology Center, where they are manually keyed into the database. The main users of this registry are: * The Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War * Congress * National Academy of Sciences * Researchers * The National Center for Veteran Analysis and Statistics.

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    Non-public: This dataset is not for public access or use. Specific details are provided below. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-VHA-VHA-002
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-12-01
    Rights Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protected health information.
    Category Basic Statistics, Use, and Operational Data
    Public Access Level non-public
    Bureau Code 029:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id a5041d87-d731-4b6e-a438-2e413e1fd4a8
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/54fw-895k
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:041
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7d5fbd248466bfbcd9e3cc3928815b7e4e17a73e4876e5b8ba76423be282de87
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    System of Records https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-11/pdf/2012-11487.pdf
    Temporal 1984-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

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