Improving Health Care for Veterans With Gulf War Illness

Overview

Journal Fed Pract

Specialty Health Services

Date 2019 May 30

PMID 31138975

Citations 1

Authors

Nicole Baldwin

Rebecca R Rudquist

Susan Lava-Parmele

Janeen H Trembley

Tammy A Butterick

Ronald R Bach

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Abstract

Physicians need to recognize and manage Gulf War illness and similar postdeployment, chronic, multisymptom diseases among veterans of recent military operations.

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