War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC): A multidisciplinary translational approach to the care of veterans with chronic multisymptom illness

Military Medicine

Volumn 178, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 705-707

  Lange, Gudrun ^a,b   McAndrew, Lisa ^a,b   Ashford, J Wesson ^c   Reinhard, Matthew ^a,d   Peterson, Michael ^a   Helmer, Drew A ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOOD DISORDER; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FATIGUE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MOOD DISORDERS; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84879712302     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00053     Document Type: Editorial

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