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Document Type: Article All Authors / Contributors: T Speroff Affiliation: Center for Health Services Research, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. ted.speroff@vanderbilt.edu; PL Sinnott; B Marx; RR Owen; JC Jackson; R Greevy; N Sayer; M Murdoch; AC Shane; J Smith; J Alvarez; SK Nwosu; T Keane; F Weathers; PP Schnurr; MJ Friedman ISSN:0894-9867 Language Note: English Unique Identifier: 825980051 Awards: Abstract: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the fastest growing compensated medical conditions. The present study compared usual disability examiner practices for PTSD with a standardized assessment that incorporates evidence-based assessments. The design was a multicenter, cluster randomized, parallel-group study involving 33 clinical examiners and 384 veterans at 6 Veterans Affairs medical centers. The standardized group incorporated the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale and the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule-II into their assessment interview. The main outcome measures were completeness and accuracy of PTSD diagnosis and completeness of functional assessment. The standardized assessments were 85% complete for diagnosis compared to 30% for nonstandardized assessments (p .001), and, for functional impairment, 76% versus 3% (p .001). The findings demonstrate that the quality of PTSD disability examination would be improved by using evidence-based assessment.

Title : Impact of evidence-based standardized assessment on the disability clinical interview for diagnosis of service-connected PTSD: a cluster-randomized trial.
Author : T Speroff Affiliation: Center for Health Services Research, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. ted.speroff@vanderbilt.edu; PL Sinnott; B Marx; RR Owen; JC Jackson; All authors
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