Complementary and Alternative Medicine use and how it impacts health care utilization in the United States Military is not well documented. Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study we describe the characteristics of CAM users in a large military population and document their health care needs over a 12-month period. The aim of this study was to determine if CAM users are requiring more physician-based medical services than users of ...
Safety concerns have confronted the Department of Defense Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program since its inception in 1998. To determine if anthrax vaccination was associated with an increased risk of hospitalization, a historical cohort study utilizing pre- and post-anthrax-vaccination hospitalizations was undertaken and analyzed with Cox proportional hazards models. The study population consisted of 170,722 active duty U.S. service members who were anthrax-vaccinated and deployed during the time period January 1, ...
This investigation focuses on potential long term negative health consequences of smallpox vaccination in military personnel who were on active duty in December 2002 when DoD implemented a service-wide smallpox vaccination program. It is designed to complement the collaborative monitoring effort for short-term adverse events associated with the administration of vaccines known as the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). The current revised protocol involves surveillance of electronic impatient and ...
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