Reports

DVBIC Annual Report, 2008

An annual written summary of key initiatives and developments to
site directors and other key stakeholders. 

Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE)

The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury website contains a variety of reports and external recommendations available in pdf format. 

• "For Warriors" Resources/Reports
• "For Health Professionals" Resources/Reports

Department of Defense (DoD) Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office (PCO)

• International State-of-the-Science Meeting on Non-Impact, Blast-Induced Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (May 12-14, 2009): Summary of Meeting Proceedings

Institute of Medicine (IOM)

• Gulf War and Health: Volume 7: Long-term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury (12/04/08)
  • This report includes a number of recommendations for the Department of Defense (DoD). Many of these recommendations correlate with newer DVBIC initiatives and, in some cases, the recommendations include usage of specific tools that have been developed by DVBIC.
  • Abstract available online. Full report can be purchased from the IOM.
• 12/19/08: DoD and VA Initiatives Addressing IOM Recommendations
• 12/19/08: Institute of Medicine Reports on Traumatic Brain Injury and Long-Term Health Problems

RAND Corporation

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.

• Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008)
   
  • Press Release
  • Monograph
  • Full Report and Summaries

SURVIAC

The Survivability/Vulernability Information Analysis Center (SURVIAC) is a contractor operated, Department of Defense sponsored service available to all government and industry users to provide studies, analyses, data gathering, and other operational, and logistics requirements related to survivability and lethality technologies.

• A 44-page technical report issued on behalf of the US Army Medical Research & Materiel Command. Findings were based on a search of more than 10 years of peer-reviewed research literature involving concussion/mTBI patients treated at military or Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities.