Postdeployment health reassessment: A sustainable method for brigade combat teams

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1017-1023

  Appenzeller, George N ^a   Warner, Christopher H ^a   Grieger, Thomas ^b  

^a Third Infantry Division   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONSULTATION; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLDIER;

EID: 35348836680     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.10.1017     Document Type: Article

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