| Physical Demands of Army Military Occupational Specialties: Constructing and Applying a Crosswalk to Evaluate the Relationship between Occupational Physical Demands and Hospitalizations |
MAY 2008 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Ilyssa E. Hollander; Nicole S. Bell; Marilyn Sharp; SOCIAL SECTORS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC BOSTON MA
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 | Army Military Occupational Specialties (MOSs) for enlisted Soldiers are categorized by their relative level of physical demands. This report compares injury rates among common MOSs stratified by light, moderate and heavy levels of physical job demands. As hypothesized, unadjusted odds for experiencing an injury hospitalization increased with increasing level of physical demand. On-duty serious accidents (those resulting in an injury hospitalization) also occurred more frequently among Soldiers in heavy demands ... |
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| A Tale of Two Disability Coding Systems: The Veterans Administration Schedule for Rating Disabilities (VASRD) vs. Diagnostic Coding Using the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) |
JAN 2008 |
62 pages |
| Authors:
Nicole S. Bell; Ilyssa E. Hollander; Jeffrey O. Williams; Paul J. Amoroso; SOCIAL SECTORS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC BOSTON MA
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| Disability rates have increased by approximately 10% per year over the past 25 years. Little is known about the etiology, in part because Veterans Administration Schedule for Rating Disabilities (VASRD) codes are not clinical diagnoses. This report describes results from analyses linking VASRD disability codes to International Classification of Disease, 9th Rev., Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) clinical diagnoses captured in hospital administrative records during disability case processing. Results suggest that while ... |
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| Risk Factors for Discharge from the Army with a Permanent Disability |
JUL 2007 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
Carolyn Schwartz; Nicole S. Bell; Ilyssa E. Hollander; SOCIAL SECTORS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC BOSTON MA
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| This report outlines progress made during the first year of the Risk Factors for Discharge from the Army with a Permanent Disability research project. Scope: The study's overall goal is to identify factors associated with the Army s rapidly increasing disability discharges rates in order to develop targeted and cost-efficient disability reduction strategies. We hypothesize that disability is the result of a combination of health, occupational, and personal risk factors ... |
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| A Descriptive Study of US Army Soldiers Referred to, Evaluated by and Enrolled in the Army Substance Abuse Program, 1988-2003 |
SEP 2006 |
62 pages |
| Authors:
Ilyssa E. Hollander; Nicole S. Bell; Margaret Phillips; Paul J. Amoroso; Les MacFarling; ARMY RESEARCH INST OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE NATICK MA
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| Alcohol abuse is a major concern in the US military since the use of alcohol is associated with a myriad of adverse outcomes that can affect both individual and collective health and performance of soldiers. The US Army Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) provides evaluation and treatment services for drug and alcohol abusers within the Armed Forces. ASAP is designed to identify and treat soldiers with potential to recover, and therefore ... |
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| A Baseline Historical Analysis of Neck and Back-Related Morbidity in the U.S. Army: Occupational Risks Potentially Related to Head-Supported Mass |
SEP 2005 |
68 pages |
| Authors:
Paul J. Amoroso; Nicole S. Bell; Holly Toboni; Mark Krautheim; ARMY RESEARCH INST OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE NATICK MA
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| This study documents the morbidity of neck and back injuries among U.S. Army Soldiers, focusing on populations at greatest potential risk (e.g.. pilots. parachutists). We hypothesize that individuals in occupations requiring the use of equipment that places a heavy load on the head will be at greater risk for acute and chronic neck and back injuries and musculoskeletal conditions. Analyses include calculation of frequencies and unadjusted rates of each health ... |
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| Preventing the Consequences of Alcohol Abuse: Identification of Soldiers at High Risk for Fatal and Serious Injuries |
JUL 2005 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Nicole S. Bell; SOCIAL SECTORS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC BOSTON MA
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| This report outlines progress made during the third year of the "Preventing the consequences of alcohol abuse: Identification of soldiers at high risk for fatal and serious injuries" research project. The main goal of this study is to improve understanding of the relationship between alcohol problems and risk of serious injury. Specifically, the study seeks to document the prevalence of injury-related diagnoses among soldiers admitted to the hospital with and ... |
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| Transforming the Army Central Registry Family Violence File into a Relational Database for the Purpose of Facilitating Epidemiological Research |
JUL 2005 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Cara Fuchs; Lauren Komp; Nicole S. Bell; James E. McCarroll; Paul J. Amoroso; SOCIAL SECTORS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC NATICK MA
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| The Army Central Registry (ACR) is a victim-based registry documenting substantiated spouse and child abuse events. ACR data were originally collected for administrative purposes and, without significant adaptation, are not immediately suitable for epidemiological analyses. Our ultimate research goal is to link ACR data for individuals involved in single or multiple events as victims, perpetrators, or both to health behavior, health outcome and demographic data. This will allow us to ... |
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| Stress, Behavior and Health: Developing a Model for Predicting Post-Deployment Morbidity, Mortality and Other Adverse Outcomes |
JUL 2001 |
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| Authors:
Nicole S. Bell; SOCIAL SECTORS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC BOSTON MA
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 | The goals of this study were to evaluate the utility of the Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database (TAIHOD), to document and describe morbidity, mortality, and other outcomes among soldiers serving in the Persian Gulf; and to identify demographic, behavioral, and stress-related factors associated with excess morbidity as determinants of whether or not a soldier will develop a 'war syndrome' condition subsequent to deployment or combat. Findings describe and ... |
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| Stress, Behavior and Health: Developing a Model for Predicting Post-Deployment Morbidity, Mortality, and Other Adverse Outcomes |
JUL 2000 |
100 pages |
| Authors:
Nicole S. Bell; SOCIAL SECTORS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC BOSTON MA
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| This project evaluates the utility of the Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database (TAIHOD) in investigating risk factors for Gulf War Illnesses (GWI) and, in particular, the etiologic role of stress. We have demonstrated that deployed veterans were, in the prewar period, happier and more satisfied than their non-deployed peers, suggesting that if stress is an important risk factor for illness it is likely due to stressors that occurred ... |
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| Stress, Behavior and Health: Developing a Model for Predicting Post-Deployment Morbidity, Mortality and Other Adverse Outcomes |
JUL 1999 |
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| Authors:
Nicole S. Bell; Paul J. Amoroso; Laura Senier; Jeffrey O. Williams; Michelle M. Yore; SOCIAL SECTORS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC NATICK MA
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| The principal goal of this project is to document the utility of the Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database (TAIHOD) in measuring deployment-related health outcomes and risk factors for adverse health events. A secondary effort is to link self-reports of stress and subsequent increases in morbidity. In our first year we have demonstrated the utility of the TAIHOD in assessing baseline (prewar) characteristics of deployed and non-deployed Gulf War ... |
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