Titre : | Health Services Use Among Gulf War Veterans and Gulf War-Era Nondeployed Veterans : A Large Population-Based Survey. (2007) |
Auteurs : | HELMER (Drew-A) : USA. War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center and the Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management. Veterans Affairs New Jersey HealthCare System. East Orange. ; DOEBBELING (Bradley-N) : USA. Department of Medicine. Indiana University. Indianapolis. ; Mindy-E FLANAGAN ; WOOLSON (Robert-F) : USA. Department of Biostatistics. Bioinformatics and Epidemiology. College of Medicine. Medical University of South Carolina. Charleston. ; Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research. Regenstrief Institute. Indiana University. Indianapolis. USA ; Center for Implementing Evidence - Based Practice. Richard L Roudebush Va Medical Center. Indianapolis. IN. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 97, n° 12, 2007) |
Pagination : | 2145-2148 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Utilisation service ; Utilisation ; Population ; Homme |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS WmuR0xq7. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. We sought to analyze the self-reported hospitalization, emergency department visits, and outpatient visits of Persian Gulf War (deployed ; n=1896) and Persian Gulf War-era (nondeployed ; n=1799) military personnel 5 years postconflict to determine whether these groups had different rates of health care use. Compared with personnel who had not been deployed, personnel who had been deployed were more likely to have visited an emergency department (25% vs 21% ; odds ratio [OR]=1.24 ; 95% confidence interval [Cl]=1.06,1.51]). Among these groups, the National Guard and Reserve personnel were more likely to have been hospitalized than were the regular military personnel (OR=1.65 ; 95% Cl=1.21,2.26). |