The Mental Disability Military Assessment Tool: A Reliable Tool for Determining Disability in Veterans with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
Purpose An assessment tool was developed to assess disability in veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to a military mission. The objective of this study was to determine the reliability, intra-rater and inter-rater variation of the Mental Disability Military (MDM) asses...
| Published in: | Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 569 - 577 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2015
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