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creators_name: Pasquina, PF
creators_name: Tsao, JW
creators_name: Collins, DM
creators_name: Chan, BL
creators_name: Charrow, A
creators_name: Karmarkar, AM
creators_name: Cooper, RA
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title: Quality of medical care provided to service members with combat-related limb amputations: Report of patient satisfaction
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divisions: sch_hrs_rehabscitech
full_text_status: public
abstract: A group of 158 service members who sustained major limb amputations during the global war on terrorism were surveyed on their satisfaction with the quality of care received from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) Amputee Clinic from the time of their injury to their inpatient discharge. Of these participants, 96% were male, 77% were Caucasian, 89% were enlisted personnel, and 68% had sustained lower-limb amputations. WRAMC inpatient therapy, peer visitors, overall medical care, and pain management received particularly high satisfaction ratings. Age, race, rank, and level and side of amputation had little effect on overall satisfaction ratings. Significant differences, however, were found by location of injury (Iraq vs Afghanistan, Cuba, and Africa) regarding satisfaction with care received while in Europe and with the education process at WRAMC. Study findings strongly support the rehabilitation-based, integrative care approach designed by the U.S. military to care for service members with amputations.
date: 2008-12-01
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
volume: 45
number: 7
pagerange: 953 - 960
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0748-7711
centers: cen_other_herl
id_number: 10.1682/JRRD.2007.10.0163
pmid: 19165685
mesh_headings: Adult
mesh_headings: Amputation, Traumatic--rehabilitation
mesh_headings: Blast Injuries--rehabilitation
mesh_headings: Cohort Studies
mesh_headings: Female
mesh_headings: Health Care Surveys
mesh_headings: Hospitals, Military--standards
mesh_headings: Humans
mesh_headings: Male
mesh_headings: Outpatient Clinics, Hospital--standards
mesh_headings: Patient Satisfaction
mesh_headings: Quality of Health Care
mesh_headings: Retrospective Studies
mesh_headings: Young Adult
citation:   Pasquina, PF and Tsao, JW and Collins, DM and Chan, BL and Charrow, A and Karmarkar, AM and Cooper, RA  (2008) Quality of medical care provided to service members with combat-related limb amputations: Report of patient satisfaction.  Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 45 (7).  953 - 960.  ISSN 0748-7711     
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