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The Veterans Health Administration: Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Homes in the Nation's Largest Integrated Delivery System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Describes the implementation of a model that organizes care around an interdisciplinary team of providers who work to identify and remove barriers to access and clinical effectiveness in primary care clinics.
Sarah Klein
core  

Pareto in Prison

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Pareto principle is based on the concept that roughly 80% of outcomes are generated by 20% of inputs, efforts, or contributors within a group. Using a national sample of U.S. prison inmates, we examined various percentile rankings of self‐reported institutional misconduct to determine how much disorder is created behind bars by the most ...
Mark A. Morgan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short-term and Long-term Racial Disparities in VA and non-VA Hospital Outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This research used VA and Medicare data to examine racial patterns in short- and long-term mortality outcomes for elderly male black and white patients hospitalized for heart attack, stroke, hip fracture, congestive heart failure, gastrointestinal ...
Daniel Polsky, Kevin Volpp
core  

Clostridium difficile infection in the United States: A national study assessing preventive practices used and perceptions of practice evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We surveyed 571 US hospitals about practices used to prevent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Most hospitals reported regularly using key CDI prevention practices, and perceived their strength of evidence as high.
Dubberke, Erik R   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Women's Health Issues in Military Veterans: Standardized Patient Cases in Motivational Interviewing, A Case Materials Guide

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL, 2013
Introduction Healthcare practitioners at Veterans Administration hospitals and outpatient clinics are seeing an increasing number of female veterans of all ages. The number of female veterans has more than doubled over the last 20 years.
Hollis Day   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospital Quality Risk Standardization via Approximate Balancing Weights [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Comparing outcomes across hospitals, often to identify underperforming hospitals, is a critical task in health services research. However, naive comparisons of average outcomes, such as surgery complication rates, can be misleading because hospital case mixes differ -- a hospital's overall complication rate may be lower due to more effective treatments
arxiv  

Introducing Novel Surgical Clinical Correlations Into an Undergraduate Medical Anatomy Course

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anatomy education is a hallmark of many preclinical medical school curricula, but students are often unable to identify the clinical relevance of anatomy and its applications. Vertical curricula that integrate clinical concepts into the preclinical basic science years and vice versa have been shown to benefit student learning and increase ...
Liam McLoughlin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogeneity in 10-year course trajectories of moderate to severe major depressive disorder among veterans

open access: yesEpidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
Aims Epidemiological studies show that despite the episodic nature, the long-term trajectory of depression can be variable. This study evaluated the heterogeneity of 10-year trajectory of major depressive disorder (MDD) related service utilization and ...
V. Panaite   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

ON THE CONTENT OF V. F. VOYNO-YASENETSKY'S WORK WITH THE WOUNDED AND THE SICK IN THE KRASNOYARSK REGION IN 1941–1944

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2018
The research features Professor and surgeon V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky who made an enormous contribution to the treatment of the wounded, disabled veterans and civilians during World War II.
S. V. Kozhevnikov
doaj   +1 more source

A History of the American Association of Pathologists’ Assistants: Creating an Organization, Winning Hearts and Minds, and Building an Invaluable Profession

open access: yesAcademic Pathology, 2020
Thomas D. Kinney and Duke University started the first formal university-based training program for pathologists’ assistants in 1969. Over the next 2 years, 2 more university-based programs were established.
Thomas L. Reilly BHS, PA(ASCP)CM   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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