Objective Determine the prevalence of clinician-diagnosed PTSD and questionnaire-
ascertained PTSD symptoms in primary care patients. Methods A systematic review of the …

Background Women comprise a growing proportion of Veterans seeking care at Veterans
Affairs (VA) healthcare facilities. VA initiatives have accelerated changes in services for …

Abstract The Persian Gulf War of 1990 to 1991 involved the deployment of nearly 700,000
American troops to the Middle East. Deployment-related exposures to toxic substances such …

This article applies a hazard-based approach to the identification of physical, mental, and
psychosocial health needs of post-9/11 veterans. The weaponry, survival, and population of …

Background: Veterans experiencing homelessness frequently use emergency and urgent
care (ED). Objective: To examine the effect of a Patient-aligned Care Team (PACT) model …

Objective Previous research with civilian populations has found strong associations
between fibromyalgia (FM) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We undertook this …

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a recently defined neuropathologic entity
(although, probably, a very old but unrecognized pathologic entity) that describes a …

Abstract Objective: Gulf War Illness (GWI) and alcohol use are both major sources of
disability among Gulf War Veterans. The goal of this secondary data analysis was to …

Background All federal agencies are required to support appropriation requests with
evidence and evaluation (US Public Law 115-435; the Evidence Act). The StrAtegic PoLicy …

METHODS Our serial cross-sectional study included 501,996 males and 69,611 females
from the OEF/OIF/OND Roster provided by the Department of Defense who had encounters …