VA health care utilization and costs among male and female veterans in the year after service in Afghanistan and Iraq

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-269

  Leslie, Douglas L ^a   Goulet, Joseph ^c   Skanderson, Melissa ^b   Mattocks, Kristin ^c   Haskell, Sally ^c   Brandt, Cynthia ^c  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AMBULATORY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 79952351201     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00142     Document Type: Article

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