Short-Term Physical and Mental Health Outcomes for Combat Amputee and Nonamputee Extremity Injury Patients

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages e31-e37

  Melcer, Ted ^a   Walker, G Jay ^b   Sechriest, V Franklin ^c   Galarneau, Michael ^a   Konoske, Paula ^a   Pyo, Jay ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Department of Orthopedic Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blast injury; Combat amputee; Extremity injury; Mental health diagnoses; Postinjury infections; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGNOSIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY SCALE; IRAQ; LIMB INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC PAIN; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; SLEEP DISORDER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WAR; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AMPUTEES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872911851     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e3182517e1c     Document Type: Article

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