Invisible wounds, visible savings? using microsimulation to estimate the costs and savings associated with providing evidence-based treatment for PTSD and depression to veterans of operation enduring freedom and operation Iraqi Freedom

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-211

  Kilmer, Beau ^a   Eibner, Christine ^a   Ringel, Jeanne S ^a   Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

depression; microstimulation; military; post traumatic stress disorder; treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959442296     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020592     Document Type: Article

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