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Department of Defense Numbers for Traumatic Brain Injury

Metadata Updated: November 29, 2020

This information is designed to provide service members, their families, veterans, the general public, and other concerned citizens with the most comprehensive and accurate figures available regarding diagnosed cases of TBI within the U.S. military. Information is collected from electronic medical records and analyzed by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center in cooperation with the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. Numbers for the current year will be updated on a quarterly basis. Other data will be updated annually. At this time, the MHS is unable to provide information regarding cause of injury or location because that information is not available in most medical records. The numbers represent actual medical diagnoses of TBI within the U.S. Military. Other, larger numbers routinely reported in the media must be considered inaccurate because they do not reflect actual medical diagnoses. Many of these larger numbers are developed utilizing sources such as the Post Deployment Health Assessment (PDHA) or Post Deployment Health Reassessment (PDHRA). However, these documents are assessment tools with TBI screening questions and are not diagnostic tools.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 29, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 29, 2020
Data Update Frequency R/P3M

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOD JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 29, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 29, 2020
Publisher Department of Defense Inspector General
Maintainer
Identifier DOD-5492
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2013-11-21
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P3M
Bureau Code 007:05
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
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Harvest Source Id 2ae42918-f490-4a22-8a9f-70da9ce75bb3
Harvest Source Title DOD JSON
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Program Code 007:083
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash f3f1a6dbb9e6efa0f7650979c7358e0441a07408
Source Schema Version 1.1

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