Screening for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in OEF-OIF Deployed Military: An Empirical Assessment of the VHA Experience
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Hendricks, Ann M.
Amara, Jomana
Baker, Errol
Charns, Martin
Gardner, John A.
Iverson, Katherine M.
Kimerling, Rachel
Krengel, Maxine
Meterko, Mark
Pogoda, Terri K.
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2013
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The Veterans Health Administration screens for traumatic brain injury (TBI)
among all its patients who were deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq. This paper reports patient-level
results of the screening program in 2008 and 2009 including rates of referrals and utilization.
METHODS We based rates of positive screens on all screened patients from October 2007
through March 2009 as captured in VHA electronic records of screenings. We derived rates of
TBI confirmed by comprehensive evaluations only from October 2008 through July 2009 as
captured in VHA electronic evaluations records. We obtained patient characteristics from
Department of Defense and VHA data.
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Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.