Issue-level outcome statistics computed from the full text of 1,017 public Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions signed by VLJ Tiffany Hanson in the corpus slice below.
| Disposition | Issues | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Granted | 544 | 24.0% |
| Denied | 578 | 25.5% |
| Remanded | 990 | 43.7% |
| Dismissed | 104 | 4.6% |
| Withdrawn | 44 | 1.9% |
| Vacated | 5 | 0.2% |
| Moot | 1 | 0.0% |
| Referred | 1 | 0.0% |
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| Condition | Issues | Granted | Denied | Remanded | Dismissed / other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back and lumbar spine | 239 | 27.2% (65/239) | 24.3% (58/239) | 43.1% (103/239) | 5.4% (13/239) |
| Knee | 194 | 20.1% (39/194) | 23.7% (46/194) | 49.5% (96/194) | 6.7% (13/194) |
| PTSD | 128 | 31.2% (40/128) | 24.2% (31/128) | 33.6% (43/128) | 10.9% (14/128) |
| Hearing loss | 124 | 36.3% (45/124) | 37.9% (47/124) | 25.0% (31/124) | 0.8% (1/124) |
| Radiculopathy | 115 | 18.3% (21/115) | 37.4% (43/115) | 34.8% (40/115) | 9.6% (11/115) |
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Docket mix drives outcome rates: judges deciding more increased-rating appeals (where partial grants are common) will look different from judges deciding more service-connection appeals. Compare a judge against the Board-wide issue-level baseline before reading anything into a single rate.
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