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Understanding treatment of mild traumatic brain injury in the military health system / Carrie M. Farmer [and ten others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farmer, Carrie M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brain damage--Treatment.
- Brain damage.
- Brain damage--Complications.
- Brain--Concussion.
- Brain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation, 2016.
- Summary:
- A RAND study, the first to examine care received by a census of active-duty service members diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury in the Military Health System, assessed the number and characteristics of these patients (including deployment history and history of traumatic brain injury), their care settings, the treatments they received.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
- Diagnostic Criteria for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
- Why Focus on Mild TBI Among Service Members?
- Understanding the Care Provided by the Military Health System for mTBI
- Organization of This Report
- CHAPTER TWO: Methods
- Overview
- Expert Advisory Group
- Data Sources
- Population
- Analyses
- Service Member and Clinical Care Variables
- CHAPTER THREE: How Many Service Members Receive Treatment for mTBI?
- Number of Nondeployed Active-Duty Service Members with mTBI, 2008-2013
- Nondeployed Active-Duty Service Members with a mTBI New Diagnosis in 2012
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER FOUR: What Are the Characteristics of Nondeployed Active-Duty Service Members Who Receive Treatment for an mTBI Through the MHS?
- Demographic Characteristics of 2012 mTBI Cohort
- Service Characteristics of 2012 mTBI Cohort
- Co-Occurring Diagnoses
- CHAPTER FIVE: Where Do Nondeployed Active-Duty Service Members with mTBI Receive Care?
- Location of Initial mTBI Diagnosis
- Timing and Location of First Health Care Encounter After mTBI Diagnosis
- Location of Care
- CHAPTER SIX: What Are the Duration and Patterns of Health Care in the Six Months After an mTBI Diagnosis?
- Duration of Care in the 2012 mTBI Cohort
- Patterns of Care in the 2012 mTBI Cohort
- CHAPTER SEVEN: What Types of Care Do Nondeployed Active-Duty Service Members with mTBI Receive in the Six Months After Their mTBI Diagnosis?
- Diagnostic Assessments
- Therapies and Treatments for Symptoms and Conditions That Commonly or Occasionally Co-Occur with mTBI
- Medications
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Who Receives Persistent Care Following mTBI Diagnosis?.
- Characteristics of Nondeployed Active-Duty Service Members Who Received Persistent Care
- CHAPTER NINE: Findings and Recommendations
- Summary of Findings
- Limitations and Considerations for Future Analysis
- Recommendations
- Final Thoughts
- APPENDIXES
- A. Using ICD-9 Codes to Identify mTBI
- B. Comparison and Variation Using the Project and Other ICD-9 Definitions
- C. ICD-9 to ICD-10 Considerations
- D. Variable Definitions
- E. Additional Analyses
- References.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 4, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-9289-8
- OCLC:
- 946983028
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