To the Editor: Schuster et al. (Nov. 15 issue)1 report an increasedincidence of distress after the events of September 11 and adviseclinicians to be prepared to assist people with trauma-relatedsymptoms. Using national workload data from the Department ofVeterans Affairs, I compared the average number of daily outpatientvisits during the 19 working days before and after September11 in different clinical subgroups and geographic locations(excluding weekends, holidays, and September 11 itself).
Veterans Affairs facilities in New York City had small, nonsignificant(P>0.05) increases in the number of daily visits for generalmedical care (6.1 percent) . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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