Telemedicine: a cost-reducing means of delivering psychotherapy to rural combat veterans with PTSD.
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2013-10-01
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Although effective psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD exist high percentages of Veterans in need of services are unable to access them One particular challenge to providing cost effective psychological treatments to Veterans with PTSD involves the difficulty and high cost of delivering in person specialized psychotherapy to Veterans residing in geographically remote locations The delivery of these services via clinical videoteleconferencing CVT has been presented as a potential solution to this access to care problem