Combined Analysis of the VA and DOD Gulf War Clinical Registries

Abstract

Following the 1991 Gulf War, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in late 1992 and the Department of Defense (DoD) in 1994 initiated health registry programs to provide clinical evaluations of Gulf War veterans. By September 30, 1999, 100,339 unique veterans participated in either the VA Persian Gulf Registry (PGR) or DoD Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program (CCEP). The following efforts were completed on this combined registry project: 1. Merging of VA PGR and CCEP with linkage to other data resources, 2. General descriptive report on the demographic and military characteristics, overall symptom and diagnosis reporting, and self-reported exposures of the combined data, 3. Patterns of symptoms and diagnoses over 7 year period (1993-1999), 4. Patterns of VA health care utilization, both inpatient and outpatient care, by registry participants, 5. Patterns of VA compensation for service-connected conditions, 6. $elected case-control analyses to evaluate potential risk factors associated with selected medical conditions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA419382

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People

  • Han K. Kang

Organizations

  • Veterans Administration Medical Center

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cancer
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Lung Diseases
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mental Disorders
  • Military Personnel
  • Neoplasms
  • Neuropathy
  • Pain
  • Persian Gulf
  • Risk Factors
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

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