Va Disability Benefits and Health Care Providing Certain Services to the Seriously Injured Poses Challenges

By Bascetta, Cynthia A.

Book Id: WPLBN0000070677
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.3 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Va Disability Benefits and Health Care Providing Certain Services to the Seriously Injured Poses Challenges
Author:	Bascetta, Cynthia A.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: VA has taken steps to provide services as a high priority to seriously injured servicemembers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. To identify and monitor those who may require VA?s services, VA and DOD are working on a formal agreement to share data about servicemembers with serious injuries. Meanwhile, VA has relied on its regional offices to coordinate with staff at MTFs and VA medical centers to learn the identities, medical conditions, and military status of seriously injured servicemembers. For servicemembers with PTSD, VA has taken steps to improve care including developing with DOD a clinical practice guideline for identifying and treating individuals with PTSD. The guideline contains a four-question screening tool, which both VA and DOD use to identify those who may be at risk for PTSD.