Predicting costs of veterans affairs health care in Gulf War veterans with medically unexplained physical symptoms

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 70-75

  Tackett, Jan ^a   Maciejewski, Matthew L ^b   Richardson, Ralph D ^a   Hunt, Stephen C ^b   Roberts, Lisa ^a   McFall, Miles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODEL; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PHARMACY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SOLDIER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERAN;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 19544365085     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.1.70     Document Type: Article

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