Prevalence and costs of co-occurring traumatic brain injury with and without psychiatric disturbance and pain among Afghanistan and Iraq war veteran VA users

Medical Care

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 342-346

  Taylor, Brent C ^a,b,c   Hagel, Emily M ^a   Carlson, Kathleen F ^d,e   Cifu, David X ^d,f   Cutting, Andrea ^a   Bidelspach, Douglas E ^d   Sayer, Nina A ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brain injuries; health care costs; traumatic injury; traumatic stress syndrome; utilization; veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NECK PAIN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PAIN; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84858705219     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318245a558     Document Type: Article

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