It was found that having a system that provided guidelines to parish (county) level personnel in conducting the
physical damage assessment and which provided uniformity in the type and amount of information being collected, increased not only the timeliness of the assessment, but also provided an avenue to increase the detail and reliability of the estimates.
(20) Joint doctrine describes BDA as a recurring process conducted in three time-related phases: phase 1,
physical damage assessment, which consists of "an estimate of the quantitative extent of physical damage ...
In addition, the physician's global assessment, and functional impairment and
physical damage assessments of the patients studied were also determined using visual analogue scales (13-14).
And in addition to
physical damage assessments, business interruption analysis is also provided.