CBO – The VA's Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury Among Recent Combat Veterans

The Veterans Health Administration’s Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury Among Recent Combat Veterans, February 2012

  • “Two conditions that affect some military service members during deployment to a combat theater and afterward are post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). PTSD is an anxiety disorder induced by exposure to a traumatic event, such as witnessing injury or death. It is characterized by symptoms that include reexperiencing the event, hyperarousal (irritability, anger, or hypervigilance, for example), and diminished responsiveness to or avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma….Some observers contend that DoD and VHA may not adequately screen, diagnose, and treat OCO service members and veterans affected by PTSD and mild TBI. In this study, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analyzes VHA’s care of OCO patients diagnosed with PTSD or TBI and compares the reported rates of occurrence of those conditions within VHA with estimates of the prevalence of those conditions in the broader population of service members who have deployed to recent overseas contingency operations.”
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