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VA health care : VA spends millions on post-traumatic stress disorder research and incorporates research outcomes into guidelines and policy for post-traumatic stress disorder services : report to the Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Veterans Affairs--Rules and practice--Evaluation.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Research--United States--Finance.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Federal aid to research--United States.
- Federal aid to research.
- Financing, Government--economics.
- Research Support as Topic--economics.
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
- Medical Subjects:
- Financing, Government--economics.
- Research Support as Topic--economics.
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Rules and practice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 40 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Department of Veterans Affairs health care : Department of Veterans Affairs spends millions on post traumatic stress disorder research and incorporates research outcomes into guidelines and policy for post traumatic stress disorder services
- VA spends millions on post-traumatic stress disorder research and incorporates research outcomes into guidelines and policy for post-traumatic stress disorder services
- Veterans Affairs post-traumatic stress disorder research
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2011]
- Summary:
- In addition to providing health care to veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) funds research that focuses on health conditions veterans may experience. According to VA, experts estimate that up to 20 percent of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans have experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and demand for PTSD treatment is increasing. Because of the importance of research in improving the services that veterans receive, GAO was asked to report on VA's funding of PTSD research, and its processes for funding PTSD research proposals, reviewing and incorporating research outcomes into clinical practice guidelines (CPG), tools that offer clinicians recommendations for clinical services but do not require clinicians to provide one service over another, and determining which PTSD services are required to be made available at VA facilities. To do this work, GAO obtained and summarized VA data on the funding of PTSD research from its medical and prosthetic research appropriation through its intramural research program. GAO also reviewed relevant VA documents, such as those for developing CPGs and those related to VA's 2008 Uniform Mental Health Services in VA Medical Centers and Clinics handbook (Handbook), which defines certain mental health services that must be made available at VA facilities. GAO also interviewed VA officials.
- Contents:
- Background
- PTSD research funding increased from fiscal year 2005 through fiscal year 2009
- VA intramural PTSD research studies are funded primarily according to scientific merit
- VA has established a standardized process to review all relevant PTSD research outcomes and incorporate them into a PTSD CPG
- VA reviewed research outcomes and used existing resources in determining which PTSD services to require its facilities to provide or make available to veterans.
- Notes:
- Title from cover screen (viewed Jan. 24, 2011).
- "January 2011."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "GAO-11-32."
- OCLC:
- 698126505
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