Resources for Researchers

• Assessing Pain in the Patient with Impaired Communication: A Consensus Statement from the VHA National Pain Management Strategy Coordinating Committee, 10/5/2004 (PDF, 29 KB)
  
• Center for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury (COMBI) Evaluation tools for the health care professional.
• Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program, James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, Florida
• Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
• IMPROVE Knowledge Portal (VA Intranet Only http://vaww.va.gov/vatap/improve.htm) Selected clinical evidence databases, and other resources developed by evidence-based experts around the world are available through this portal.
• Key References in Polytrauma Care
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• National Resource Directory
• Northwest Center for Outcomes Research in Older Adults
• Pain Management, VHA
• Rehabilitation Research and Development (RR&D)
• US Department of Education: Forecast of Funding Opportunities
• VIReC: Data Topics by Category

Workshop

• TBI in OIF/OEF Veterans: Opportunities and Challenges for HSR Nina A. Sayer, PhD
• Traumatic Brain Injury/Polytrauma and Pain Robin L. Walker, PhD
• Current methods of and challenges to screening and assessment of mild TBI Rodney D. Vanderploeg, PhD
• Facing the long road ahead: Opportunities and challenges to assessing long-term needs for caregivers of polytrauma patients Joan M. Griffin, PhD
• Family Care within the Polytrauma System of Care Carmen Hall RN, PhD