STOP-BANG screener vs objective obstructive sleep apnea testing among younger veterans with PTSD and insomnia: STOP-BANG does not sufficiently detect risk.

Study Objectives: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) cooccur even in veterans who are younger with lower body mass index. The STOP-BANG screener for OSA relies heavily on high blood pressure, age, and body mass index and may not generalize to veterans with PTSD. The inability to effectively screen veterans for OSA is problematic given negative outcomes of untreated OSA.

Community service coordination for minority clients with disabilities: 10-step guidelines.

Although many resources are available to rehabilitation counselors to utilizing community resources for minority clients with disabilities, guidelines specific to service allocation are not easily available. The purpose of this article is to provide rehabilitation counselors with a simple, modifiable service allocation template for this purpose. A 10-step referral making process with real-world examples is presented.

ADA perceived disability claims: a decision-tree analysis.

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to examine the possible interactions of predictor variables pertaining to perceived disability claims contained in a large governmental database. Specifically, it is a retrospective analysis of US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) data for the entire population of workplace discrimination claims based on the "regarded as disabled" prong of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) definition of disability.

Methods: The study utilized records extracted from a "master database" of over two million charges of workplace discrimination in the Integrated Mission System of the EEOC.