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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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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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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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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 ...
Max T. 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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Antibiotic Stewardship Implementation and Antibiotic Use at Hospitals With and Without On-site Infectious Disease Specialists. [PDF]

, 2020
BackgroundMany US hospitals lack infectious disease (ID) specialists, which may hinder antibiotic stewardship efforts. We sought to compare patient-level antibiotic exposure at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals with and without an on-site ID
Alexander, Bruce, Beck, Brice F, Goetz, Matthew B, Goto, Michihiko, Livorsi, Daniel J, Lund, Brian C, Nair, Rajeshwari, Ohl, Michael, Perencevich, Eli N, Vaughan-Sarrazin, Mary S   +9 more
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Perspectives of Clinicians, Staff, and Veterans in Transitioning Veterans from non-VA Hospitals to Primary Care in a Single VA Healthcare System.

Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2019
BACKGROUND Veterans with healthcare needs utilize both Veterans Health Administration (VA) and non-VA hospitals. These dual-use veterans are at high risk of adverse outcomes due to the lack of coordination for safe transitions.
R. Ayele, E. Lawrence, Marina S. McCreight, Kelty Fehling, R. Glasgow, Borsika A. Rabin, R. Burke, C. Battaglia   +7 more
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Comparison of Accessibility, Cost, and Quality of Elective Coronary Revascularization Between Veterans Affairs and Community Care Hospitals

JAMA cardiology, 2018
Importance The Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Care (CC) Program supplements VA care with community-based medical services. However, access gains and value provided by CC have not been well described.
P. Barnett, Juliette Hong, Evan Carey, G. Grunwald, Karen E. Joynt Maddox, T. Maddox   +5 more
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Comparing Veterans Affairs and Private Sector Perioperative Outcomes After Noncardiac Surgery.

JAMA Surgery, 2021
Importance Recent legislation facilitates veterans' ability to receive non-Veterans Affairs (VA) surgical care. However, contemporary data comparing the quality and safety of VA and non-VA surgical care are lacking.
Elizabeth L. George, N. Massarweh, A. Youk, K. Reitz, Myrick C. Shinall, Rui Chen, A. Trickey, Patrick R. Varley, J. Johanning, P. Shireman, S. Arya, Daniel E. Hall   +11 more
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