The Health of Former Prisoners of War Results from the Medical Examination Survey of Former POWs of World War II and the Korean Conflict (1992) / Chapter Skim
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9 Future Work
9 Future Work
Pages 126-128
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Along the same lines, unbeknownst to the coding contractor, a small number of examinations were submitted for coding a second time. A comparison of the two codings of the same exam would provide useful information on the completeness and accuracy of the coding process.
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For another example, a discriminant analysis might be done, using all the psychiatric data, to compare POWs versus controls or even one POW group with another. Such an analysis could help determine which psychiatric scales or items distinguish subjects with PTSD from those without it by studying these relationships in one random half-sample and validating them in the other.
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To date, the mortality analyses of the MFUA cohort have not attempted to associate mortality rates directly with prison camp factors. Such analyses could be undertaken and, with an additional 15-20 years of mortality data, might uncover further unsuspected links between the POW experience and subsequent medical conditions.
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