Are veterans seeking veterans affairs' primary care as healthy as those seeking Department of Defense primary care? A look at Gulf War veterans' symptoms and functional status

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 676-683

  Richardson, Ralph D ^a   Engel Jr , Charles C ^a   Hunt, Stephen C ^a   McKnight, Katherine ^a   McFall, Mines ^a  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment; Functional status; Health; Healthy worker effect; Persian Gulf; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLDIER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 0036074258     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PSY.0000021941.35402.18     Document Type: Article

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