Morbidity of Vietnam Veterans

Supplementary Report No. 3: Multiple Sclerosis and Motor Neurone Disease in Vietnam Veterans

Full publication (338K PDF)

• Preliminary material
  • Title page and verso
  • Letter to the Minister
  • Contents
  • List of tables, figures and boxes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Executive summary (separate 99K PDF)
• Sections
  1. Purpose, organisation and management
     1.  Introduction and background
         Objectives of the MS and MND study
     2. Study organisation and administration
        Study Advisory Committee
        Ethics Committee
         Expert Neurologist Panel
        Structure of the report
  2. Multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease
     1. Multiple sclerosis
        Epidemiology
        Signs and symptoms
        Diagnosis
     2. Motor neurone disease
        Epidemiology
        Signs and symptoms
        Diagnosis
  3. Study design
     1. Study population
        'New veterans' and 'new conditions'
     2. Survey methods
        Survey of veterans
        Survey of general practitioners and
        Survey of neurologists
        Classification of clinical notes
        Deaths of veterans
     3. Validation methodology
        Recalculation of Australian community standards
        Misallocation of conditions
        Allocation of non-respondents and not able to be validated responses
  4. Results
     1. Survey response
        Veterans
        Doctors
        Neurologists
     2. Validation of conditions
        Panel classification results
        Veterans™ deaths since 1997
        Validation of MS and MND in veterans
        Impact of method of allocation of non-respondents and not able to be validated responses
        'New veterans' and 'new conditions'
     3. Conclusion
• End matter
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix 1
    • Appendix 2
    • Appendix 3
    • Appendix 4
    • Appendix 5
      El Escorial criteria
      Rose criteria
  • References

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