Are you a busy health care provider? Not enough time to keep up with research? Stay informed with the TBI Hot Topics Bulletin. We track the latest TBI scientific studies, advances, and discoveries most relevant to health care providers. This issue covers the first quarter of calendar year 2020.

This research review provides an overview of the topic of co-morbid mild TBI and posttraumatic stress disorder. This review focuses on symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of PTSD and mild TBI symptoms in patients with mild TBI history. While it can be difficult to differentiate symptoms of mild TBI from PTSD symptoms, especially months or years after ...

Study of Cognitive Rehabilitation Effectiveness Clinical Trial Overview Chapter one provides a concise overview of the SCORE clinical trial and measures, plus the Congressional mandate for the study, and implications for the military and veterans.

2019 DVBIC Annual Report

This guide is intended to help service members and veterans who have experienced a concussion recover as quickly and safely as possible. It outlines each stage of the recovery process, explains what affected individuals should expect throughout the recovery process, provides guidance on how to track progress and includes a table to track developments.

This clinical recommendation provides background of pre-deployment neurocognitive testing and the use of automated neuropsychological assessment metrics (ANAM).

This clinical support tool uses an algorithmic approach for health care providers to help assess and manage headache in service members and veterans who sustain a mild TBI and experience post-traumatic headache (PTH). The tool offers providers a step-by-step process to determine the type of headache following mild TBI and indications for emergency or ...

This clinical recommendation outlines the assessment and management of headache following mild TBI. It includes specific recommendations regarding how health care providers can help patients manage pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment of post-traumatic headache (PTH).

This clinical recommendation serves as a reference tool offering medical guidance following indications from post-injury neuroendocrine screening.

Full-length medical provider training material for the Military Acute Concussion Evaluation 2 (MACE 2).

The MACE 2 Student Workbook is for use with the MACE 2 training slides to learn how to properly use the MACE 2.

The MACE 2 Instructor Guide provides the curriculum needed for medical providers to train peers on how to properly use the MACE 2.

TBICoE developed this quick reference resource based on the latest coding guidance and the Military Health System Professional Services and Specialty Medical Coding Guidelines Version 5.0, to facilitate consistent and accurate coding for TBI diagnoses and related symptoms and conditions.

Presentation that educates health care providers about the intent of and how to use the Management of Headache Following Concussion/Mild TBI clinical recommendation (includes knowledge tests and case studies).

The VOMS for Concussion Instructions is a clinical support tool for use with the MACE 2.