By Corina Notyce, DCoE Strategic
Communications
We want to hear from you! Defense
Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury
(DCoE) encourages health care professionals to share their thoughts on the Mild
Traumatic Brain Injury Pocket Guide and corresponding mobile app. Your feedback
will help us make improvements to the pocket guide and other traumatic brain
injury-related products.
How often do you refer to the pocket
guide? What aspect of it do you find most useful? Based on your experience with
the pocket guide, tell us everything from advantages and disadvantages to
recommendations and suggestions for future traumatic brain injury (TBI)
clinical resources and tools.
The pocket guide, developed by DCoE, is
an all-encompassing, quick reference clinical guidance tool to help primary
care providers assess and treat service members and veterans who have sustained
a concussion. It includes a summary of the clinical practice guidelines and
recommendations from the Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs
on the management of mild TBI and provides information on treating common mild
TBI symptoms; coding guidance; clinical recommendations for cognitive
rehabilitation and driving following TBI; patient education materials; and
additional clinical tools and resources related to TBI prevention and care.
You can also access the pocket guide
from your smartphone with the free mobile app developed by National Center for
Telehealth and Technology, a DCoE center. The mobile app was created to help
providers conveniently access the latest evidence-based clinical guidelines for
concussion care and enhance provider-patient interactions.
Hard copies of the pocket guide are
available from Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. Call 800-870-9244 or
email for details. To download an electronic version and other TBI clinical
resources, visit the Health Professionals section of the DCoE website.
Take the online survey today — it only
takes a few minutes. Participation is voluntary and responses will remain
anonymous.
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