Erschienen in:
24.05.2018 | Concise Research Reports
Chronic Multisymptom Illness Among Iraq/Afghanistan-Deployed US Veterans and Their Healthcare Utilization Within the Veterans Health Administration
verfasst von:
April F. Mohanty, PhD, Lisa M. McAndrew, PhD, Drew Helmer, MD, MS, Matthew H. Samore, MD, Adi V. Gundlapalli, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2018
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Excerpt
As noted in prior wars such as the 1991 Gulf War, increasing evidence indicates that, chronic multisystem medically unexplained symptoms, referred to as chronic multisymptom illness (CMI), are commonly experienced by Veterans returning from Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn (OEF/OIF/OND)
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2. Females may be at higher risk for CMI based on evidence among civilian populations and veterans from prior conflicts
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5. Little is known regarding the sex-specific CMI prevalence among OEF/OIF/OND deployed veterans or related healthcare utilization. Among OEF/OIF/OND veterans nationwide and stratified by sex, we sought to estimate the prevalence of CMI-related diagnoses (hereafter referred to as CMI) and to explore trends in CMI-related (versus non-CMI-related) outpatient healthcare utilization in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). …