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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.
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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 +11 more
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A Conversation with James Hannan [PDF]
Statistical Science 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1, 126-144, 2010 Jim Hannan is a professor who has lived an interesting life and one whose fundamental research in repeated games was not fully appreciated until late in his career. During his service as a meteorologist in the Army in World War II, Jim played poker and made weather forecasts.
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2016 IMPORTANCE Little contemporary information is available about comparative performance between Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA hospitals, particularly related to mortality and readmission rates, 2 important outcomes of care.
S. Nuti +9 more
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Deep Learning and Glaucoma Specialists: The Relative Importance of Optic Disc Features to Predict Glaucoma Referral in Fundus Photos [PDF]
Ophthalmology (2019), 2018 Glaucoma is the leading cause of preventable, irreversible blindness world-wide. The disease can remain asymptomatic until severe, and an estimated 50%-90% of people with glaucoma remain undiagnosed. Glaucoma screening is recommended for early detection and treatment.
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76865 Clinical Outcomes of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia in the VA Healthcare System
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021 IMPACT: Through a comprehensive analysis of patterns of care and outcomes in Veterans with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, we will identify Veteran-specific determinants of survival that will allow for more personalized decision-making in this ...
Rohan Achar, Talha Anwar, Brian Parkin
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Quick Annotator: an open-source digital pathology based rapid image annotation tool [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Image based biomarker discovery typically requires an accurate segmentation of histologic structures (e.g., cell nuclei, tubules, epithelial regions) in digital pathology Whole Slide Images (WSI). Unfortunately, annotating each structure of interest is laborious and often intractable even in moderately sized cohorts.
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Transplantation Direct, 2023 Background:. Kidney transplant waitlist management is complex because waiting time is long, and the patients have significant comorbidities. Identification of patients at highest risk for waiting list removal for death and medical complications could ...
Daniel A. Katz, MD +8 more
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Dual use of VA and non-VA hospitals by Veterans with multiple hospitalizations
BMC Health Services Research, 2015 BackgroundVeterans who are hospitalized in both VA and non-VA hospitals within a short timespan may be at risk for fragmented or conflicting care. To determine the characteristics of these “dual users,” we analyzed administrative hospital discharge data ...
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Substance Abuse, 2020 The US is confronted with a rise in opioid use disorder (OUD), opioid misuse, and opioid-associated harms. Medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD)—including methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone—is the gold standard treatment for OUD.
A. Gordon +7 more
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