Return-to-duty rates among US military combat-related amputees in the global war on terror: Job description matters

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 279-286

  Belisle, Jeffery G ^a   Wenke, Joseph C ^b   Krueger, Chad A ^a  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Disability; Extremity amputation; Iraq; Military specialty; Return to duty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; DISABILITY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WORK;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AMPUTATION; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881353955     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31829bb777     Document Type: Article

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