VA's process for determining TBI in veterans seeking disability compensation examined in new report

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) should expand the requirement in its disability compensation process regarding who can diagnose traumatic brain injury (TBI) to include any health care professional with pertinent and ongoing brain injury training and experience, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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