Combat injury is associated with adverse mental health outcomes among deployed personnel, but not for amputees: is there a hierarchy of wounding? - Minshall D.

he developments in combat trauma care during the Afghanistan campaign have led to unprecedented survivability from severe injuries. However, the longer term physical and mental health outcomes for combat-injured UK Armed Forces personnel remain unknown. To...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news