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DA Form 3981 — TRANSFER OF PATIENT

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DA Form 3981 handles one job: transfer of patient. The official title is TRANSFER OF PATIENT. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is 12/01/1972, status ACTIVE, running 1 page(s) with about 83 fields to complete.

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What the form asks for

  • ACCOMREQ
  • AMBULANT
  • BUTTON1
  • BUTTON2
  • ContentArea1
  • DATE
  • DEPTSER
  • DIAGNOS
  • HOSPITAL
  • LITTER
  • NAMHOSP
  • NUMATTN
  • PATADDRE
  • PATID
  • PRECOND
  • PROBPER
  • Page1
  • R64
  • R65
  • R66
  • R67
  • R68
  • R69
  • R70

The heading entries carry more weight than the body. Name spelled as in official records, identification number, organisation, date prepared. Retrieval runs on those values, so a transposed digit or a casual spelling costs someone a file search. Fill them before anything else.

Move between fields with tab; the build-time order follows the page and misses nothing. Click check boxes and option buttons, and expect an exclusive group to release the old choice when you set a new one. The trap is field width. Single-line fields do not wrap, so an overlong entry displays complete on screen and prints cut at the margin — put it in remarks or on a continuation instead. Mark inapplicable fields rather than leaving them blank, since an empty box carries no information about whether the question was read.

Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.

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Routing follows AR 40-400 and nothing else — a named office, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's file, according to why the form was raised. Copy it before it leaves. Retention is fixed by the records schedule for the series, which local practice does not shorten or extend.

Look for associated forms by series and number. In the DA series, documents sharing a proponent or a governing directive tend to travel together, and anything referenced on the page normally submits alongside. Collect continuations, covers and transmittals in advance of sending.

Edition date is the version number, printed on the page. Hold a locally saved copy against the current edition before reuse, since nothing on your machine signals a revision. Work already executed under a superseded edition remains as filed.

What is distributed here are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents. Independent site, no official standing, no forms of its own. Nothing on the page constitutes legal advice, and acceptance by any office is outside what can be stated. Put questions about entries, requirements or eligibility to TSG or your servicing administrative office.

Questions and answers

What is DA Form 3981?
TRANSFER OF PATIENT
Which edition is current?
12/01/1972
Who is responsible for this form?
TSG
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF, PDF

Publisher notes

  1. 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA,

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