A Survey of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment in the Emergency Room and Primary Care Medical Clinics

Military Medicine, Jun 2006 by Kennedy, Jan Elizabeth, Lumpkin, Robin James, Grissom, Joyce Rothleder

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Guarantor; Jan Elizabeth Kennedy, PhD

Contributors: Jan Elizabeth Kennedy, PhD; Robin James Lumpkln, BA; COL Joyce Rothleder Grissom, USAF MC

* Defense and Veterans Brain Injuiy Center, Wllford Hall AIr Force Medical Center, P.O. Box 27376, San Antonio, TX 78227.

[dagger] Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 910 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA, 23284-2512.

[double dagger] Skyline Place, 5111 Leesburg Pike, Suite 810, Falls Church, VA 22041-3206.

Presented at the 20th Texas Brain Injury State Conference, August 23, 2002. Austin, TX and the 27th Annual Wllliamsburg Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Conference, June 6-8,2003, Wllliamsburg, VA.

This manuscript was received for review In January 2005 and accepted for publication In April 2005.

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