Information for Providers
General
- Deployment Health Clinical Center (DHCC) - Department of Defense
- Military personnel, veterans, and their families along with health care providers with deployment health questions or concerns can contact the Department of Defense's Deployment Health Help-line at the Deployment Health Clinical Center located at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The site includes a special section for clinicians that includes clinical guidelines for post deployment patient management, post traumatic stress disorder and depression and medically unexplained symptoms. There is also an education and training section that identifies quality training and education opportunities, including conferences, seminars, workshops, and other training events to build clinical practice skills.
- Veterans Health Initiative (VHI) - Veterans Affairs
- The Veterans Health Initiative (VHI) is a comprehensive program to recognize the connection between certain health effects and military service, to allow military medical history to be better documented and to prepare health care providers to better serve their veteran patients. The VHI includes several independent study guides for health care professionals that can be downloaded or used online at this site. Topics include cold injury, Agent Orange, Gulf War, radiation, and other subjects.
- VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD) and other leading professional organizations, has been developing clinical practice guidelines since the early 1990s. Guidelines for the Rehabilitation of Stroke and Amputation and the Care Guide for Ischemic Heart Disease were among the first distributed throughout VA in 1996 and 1997. Since that time, numerous others, including guidelines on diabetes mellitus, chronic obstruction pulmonary disease (COPD), major depressive disorder, psychoses, tobacco use cessation, hypertension, and more, have been developed and distributed for implementation throughout the system.
- GulfLINK Medical Information
- This Department of Defense site offers clinical guidelines for post-deployment Gulf War Veterans and Gulf War illness-related medical research and publications.
- U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
- U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine's mission is to provide worldwide technical support for implementing preventive medicine, public health, and health promotion/wellness services into all aspects of the Army. The site includes a number of fact sheets on illness ranging from tick-borne diseases and anthrax to "mad cow disease" and Escherichia coli O157:H7.
- Health of Veterans & Deployed Forces - Institute of Medicine (IoM)
- The Institute of Medicine (IoM) has created a Web site with information about a variety of military-related health issues. The site has four separate sections covering the last four major military conflicts (WWII, Vietnam, Korea, and the Gulf War). The site includes IoM-produced reports, information on pending reports, studies about chemical and biological agents suspected of causing health problems for military members and information about deployment health.
Hepatitis
- National Hepatitis C Program Guidelines and Best Practices
- This Department of Veterans Affairs Web page provides hepatitis C-related guidelines and best practices regarding treatment, prevention and transmission, testing and counseling, and HIV coinfection.
- Chronic Hepatitis C: Current Disease Management (NIH)
- This National Institutes of Health site provides current information on chronic hepatitis C disease management and includes information on risk factors and transmission, diagnosis, testing, treatment, research and additional resources.
- Information for Providers - Hepatitis C - New York State Department of Health
- The New York State Department of Health's hepatitis C Web site for providers provides up-to-date information and resources to assist physicians and other providers in the management of patients. Among the resources are links to online training, patient counseling messages, guides, and testing and disease management information.
- Hepatitis C Care - Veterans Affairs
- This is a comprehensive Web site on hepatitis C provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the University of California at San Francisco's Center for HIV Information.
Diabetes
- VA/DoD Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Diabetes clinical guidelines from the Veterans Health Administration, developed in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD) and other leading professional organizations.
HIV/AIDS
- HIV/AIDS - New York State Department of Health
- This state Health Department site provides a wide variety of information on HIV/AIDS testing, treatment, reporting requirements and resources. There is also information on the department's Clinical Education Initiative in which a statewide network of HIV Clinical Education programs can be tailored to meet the needs of providers through case conferences, lectures, preceptorships, satellite videoconferences, interactive CD-ROM modules, and audiocassettes and videocassettes at no cost.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- PTSD 101 - Veterans Affairs
- PTSD 101 is a Web-based educational resource that is designed for busy practitioners who provide services to military men and women and their families as they recover from combat stress or other traumatic events.
- National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Information for Health Care Providers
- The site contains fact sheets on assessments, common reactions, related problems, types of trauma and treatment as well as other educaitonal materials, manuals, videos and an on-line training program.
Radiation
- Radiation Event Medical Management (REMM)
- This Web site includes a new downloadable online diagnostic and treatment toolkit designed for health care providers, primarily physicians, who may have to provide medical care during a radiation incident. The information package, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, includes easy-to-follow procedures for diagnosis and management of radiation contamination and exposure, guidance for the use of radiation medical countermeasures, and a variety of other features to facilitate medical responses.
SARS
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - New York State Department of Health
- This state Health Department site provides updated information and treatment recommendations for physicians on SARS.
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- This Armed Forces Institute of Pathology site provides information about the imaging and pathology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
