Care of war veterans with mild traumatic brain injury - Flawed perspectives

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1588-1591

  Hoge, Charles W ^a   Goldberg, Herb M ^a   Castro, Carl A ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b U S ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND MATERIEL COMMAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; BLAST INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCUSSION; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVALESCENCE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPECTATION; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SHORT SURVEY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONCUSSION; MASS SCREENING; MILITARY MEDICINE; NOMENCLATURE; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; WAR;

BRAIN CONCUSSION; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MILITARY MEDICINE; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 64749098294     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0810606     Document Type: Article

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