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Teaching hospital alternatives for Veterans Health Administration facilities: A Google Maps proximity study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
The United States Veterans Health Administration (VHA) serves more than 9 million enrolled Veterans each year. Although most of the care that the VHA sponsors is delivered within its own facilities, there has been a call for "privatizing" some or all of ...
Joseph Bernstein, Loren Mead
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Admissions to Veterans Affairs Hospitals for Emergency Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Author Contributions: Drs Degesys and Wang had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Concept and design: All authors.
Aaron Baum, M. Schwartz
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Estimating the Cost of Surgical Care Purchased in the Community by the Veterans Health Administration

MDM Policy & Practice, 2021
Background. Veterans’ access to Veterans Affairs (VA)-purchased community care expanded due to large increases in funding provided in the 2014 Veterans Choice Act. Objectives.
Todd H. Wagner, Jeanie Lo, Erin Beilstein-Wedel, Megan E. Vanneman, Michael Shwartz, Amy K. Rosen   +5 more
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We’ll take it from here: Veterans Affairs OPAT management of home IV therapy initiated at community hospitals

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
An outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy team from a Veterans Affairs facility managed patients discharged from their own facility and neighboring community hospitals.
Allison R. Tiemann, Jessica M. Guastadisegni, Marcus A. Kouma, Kevin C. Kelly, Reuben J. Arasaratnam, Donald F. Storey   +5 more
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Correlation between resilience and cognitive functioning in veterans with traumatic brain injury

Medičnì Perspektivi, 2023
Resilience in veterans with brain trauma in remote period has received considerable attention over the past years. Cognitive functioning is described among factors that may influence resilience and included in the modern theoretical models of this ...
D.O. Assonov
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Temporal Trends and Hospital Variation in Time-to-Antibiotics Among Veterans Hospitalized With Sepsis

JAMA Network Open, 2021
Key Points Question How has timing of antibiotics for sepsis changed over time in US Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals? Findings In this cohort of 111 385 veterans hospitalized with sepsis from 2013 to 2018, median time to antibiotics declined by ...
M. Wayne, S. Seelye, D. Molling, X. Q. Wang, John P. Donnelly, C. Hogan, Makoto Jones, T. Iwashyna, Vincent X Liu, Hallie C Prescott   +9 more
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Data of unhealthy food availability in hospitals

Data in Brief, 2018
In our manuscript, we present the food choices available at vending machines in government-run Veterans Affairs Hospitals. The data in this article includes both a quantification of the beverages and packages foods available, along with a comparison of ...
Colin E. Champ, Nick A. Iarrobino, Christopher P. Haskins   +2 more
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Incidence and Outcomes Associated With Clostridium difficile Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2020
Importance: An understanding of the incidence and outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in the United States can inform investments in prevention and treatment interventions.
Balkenende, Erin, Blevins, Amy E., Chiang, Hsiu-Yin, Chorazy, Margaret L., Diekema, Daniel J., Herwaldt, Loreen A., Khader, Karim, Kuxhausen, Michelle F., Marra, Alexandre R., McDanel, Jennifer S., Nair, Rajeshwari, Nelson, Richard E., Perencevich, Eli N., Samore, Matthew, Schweizer, Marin L., Ward, Melissa A.   +15 more
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Mental health status in veterans residing in rural versus non-rural areas: results from the veterans’ health study

Military Medical Research, 2020
Background The majority of Veterans Affair (VA) hospitals are in urban areas. We examined whether veterans residing in rural areas have lower mental health service use and poorer mental health status.
Joseph J. Boscarino, Charles R. Figley, Richard E. Adams, Thomas G. Urosevich, H. Lester Kirchner, Joseph A. Boscarino   +5 more
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Increasing enrolment in a national VA transitions of care programme: a pre–post evaluation of a data dashboard and nudge-based intervention

BMJ Health & Care Informatics, 2021
Background The rural transitions nurse programme (TNP) is a care coordination intervention for high-risk veterans. An interactive dashboard was used to provide real-time performance metrics to sites as an audit and feedback tool.
Heather Gilmartin, Chelsea Leonard, David Gaskin, Brigid Connelly, Theodore Warsavage   +4 more
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