Long-Term Health Care Costs for Service Members Injured in Iraq and Afghanistan

CONCLUSIONS: Combat injured patients have significantly higher long-term health care costs compared to their noninjured counterparts. If this random sample is extrapolated to the 53,251 total of combat wounded service members, it implies a total excess cost of $1.6 billion to date after adjustment for covariates and a median follow-up time of 10 years. These costs are likely to increase as injured veterans age and develop additional chronic conditions.PMID:36734126 | DOI:10.1093/milmed/usad008

Source: Military Medicine - February 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ian J Stewart Shiva Ambardar Jeffrey T Howard Jud C Janak Lauren E Walker Eduard Poltavskiy Karl C Alcover Jessica Watrous Adi V Gundlapalli Warren B P Pettey Ying Suo Richard E Nelson Source Type: research