Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the signature injuries of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. To ensure that rehabilitation care needs of veterans and active duty servicemembers with TBI and polytrauma injuries were met, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) established...
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“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan” (Abraham Lincoln): the Department of Veterans Affairs Polytrauma System of Care. The initiation of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan has resulted in a new cohort of active-duty service members and veterans ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense rolled out a joint health information exchange that would make it easier to share records with community providers. By Elise Reuter - Medcity News Health IT, Policy Carnegie Mellon, U of Pittsburgh School of Medicine receive DoD...
WE THANK the editors for the opportunity to provide our viewpoint on traumatic brain injury (TBI) screening by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) in response to the article "Screening for a Remote History of Mild TBI: When a Good Idea is Bad" by Drs...
Dept. of Veterans AffairsREHABILITATION for brain injury patientsCOGNITIVE rehabilitationPOSTCONCUSSION syndromeMilitary activity often has been the impetus for advances in medical care and rehabilitation, including assessment and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Speech-language p...
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Department of Veterans Affairs concerning the war veterans who are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq combat operations. Details about the experiences of war veterans such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), reintegration problems and physical injuries, are provided. Also emphasized is the awareness on ...
To ensure identification and prompt treatment of mild and moderate TBI, the U.S. Congress has mandated that military and Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals screen all service personnel returning from combat. Military health professionals must evaluate them for concussion and then treat the ...
Psychological evaluations of veterans claiming PTSD disability with the Department of Veterans Affairs: A clinician's viewpoint. Psychological Injury and Law, 3, 130-132.Poyner, G (2010) Psychological evaluations of veterans claiming PTSD disability with the Department of Veterans Affairs: a clinician...