Patterns of Illness and Care Before Deployment to the Persian Gulf War

Abstract

This epidemiological study will investigate the hypothesis that Army personnel who reported medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Persian Gulf Registry (PGR) or the Department of Defense (DoD) Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program (CCEP) upon returning from the Persian Gulf War have patterns of illness and medical care seeking during the year prior to deployment to the Persian Gulf that differ from those of comparison groups of Army personnel who deployed to the Persian Gulf who either did not sign up with either registry or did register but did not report MUPS. For members of each of these groups, investigators will abstract data from the military health records for the twelve months spent on active duty prior to Persian Gulf War deployment. Number and types of outpatient visits and inpatient stays will be compared.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA418906

Entities

People

  • Richard N. Miller

Organizations

  • National Academy of Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Army Personnel
  • Computer Programming
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Deployment
  • Gulfs
  • Health
  • Health Services
  • Lessons Learned
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Pain
  • Persian Gulf
  • Persian Gulf War
  • Records
  • War

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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