Kimberly A. Hepner

Carrie M. Farmer

Liisa Hiatt

Heather Krull

Thomas W. Concannon

Molly Simmons

Francesca Pillemer

Teague Ruder

Andrew M. Parker

Maulik P. Purohit

Benjamin Batorsky

A RAND study, the first to examine care received by a census of active-duty service members diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury in the Military Health System, assessed the number and characteristics of these patients (including deployment history and history of traumatic brain injury), their care settings, the treatments they received, co-occurring conditions, the duration of treatment, and the risk factors for requiring long-term care.

Understanding Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military Health System

Erika Litvin Bloom

Sydne Newberry

Jessica L. Sousa

Karen Chan Osilla

Marika Booth

Armenda Bialas

Carolyn M. Rutter

This report presents results from a systematic review and meta-analyses of research examining how mindfulness meditation affects 13 performance-related outcomes of interest to the U.S. Army and broader military. The authors supplemented the systematic review by examining how mindfulness meditation could support stress management and exploring characteristics of selected mindfulness programs.

Implications for the U.S. Army

The Impact of Mindfulness Meditation Programs on Performance-Related Outcomes

Katherine E. Watkins

Carol P. Roth

Coreen Farris

Elizabeth M. Sloss

Grant R. Martsolf

Harold Alan Pincus

Caroline Epley

Daniel Mandel

Susan D. Hosek

To inform improvements to the quality of care delivered by the military health system for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder, researchers developed a framework and identified, developed, and described a candidate set of measures for monitoring, assessing, and improving the quality of care. This document describes their research approach and the measure sets that they identified.

Candidate Quality Measures for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder

Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System

Kimberly A. Hepner

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