Just yesterday we had a meeting at our headquarters to look at revitalizing the treatment standardization committee—which had run for a number of years, and then I think everybody just got so busy that it fell by the wayside—and it's exactly to look at this.
Over the last several years we've done a lot to develop pre- and post-deployment screenings, and looking at that and evaluating them. Major Sedge did his piece of research in Gagetown, looking at people developing PTSD and the course of that over time. The other thing we've done is a lot of educating and training of our staff in evidence-based treatments for such things as PTSD. Now we're looking at what we need to start putting in place to evaluate.
There certainly are tools. We have a tool that we've used in Ottawa for the last two to three years. You give a kind of quick checklist to the member every time he or she comes in and you look at symptoms, at how they're doing in their interpersonal life, how they feel about themselves in their role. It's very well researched. We've been using it in Ottawa in an unofficial way, but I think this is the tool we're going to go forward with. It's a great tool, because you can then look over time at whether people are actually getting better, and at what is reducing.