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Outcomes of Veterans Treated in Veterans Affairs Hospitals vs Non–Veterans Affairs Hospitals

JAMA Network Open, 2023
ImportanceMany veterans enrolled in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system have access to non-VA care through insurance and VA-purchased community care. Prior comparisons of VA and non-VA hospital outcomes have been limited to subpopulations.ObjectiveTo compare outcomes for 6 acute conditions in VA and non-VA hospitals for younger and older ...
Yoon, Jean, Phibbs, Ciaran S., Ong, Michael K., Vanneman, Megan E., Chow, Adam, Redd, Andrew, Kizer, Kenneth W., Dizon, Matthew P., Wong, Emily, Zhang, Yue   +9 more
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Comparing Quality of Care in Veterans Affairs and Non-Veterans Affairs Settings [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2018
Congress, veterans' groups, and the press have expressed concerns that access to care and quality of care in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) settings are inferior to access and quality in non-VA settings.To assess quality of outpatient and inpatient care in VA at the national level and facility level and to compare performance between VA and non-VA
Rebecca, Anhang Price, Elizabeth M, Sloss, Matthew, Cefalu, Carrie M, Farmer, Peter S, Hussey   +4 more
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External Validation of the Veterans Affairs Women Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score to Nonveteran Women [PDF]

JACC: Advances
Background: The Veterans Affairs (VA) women cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score is an internally validated tool to assess the ten-year atherosclerosis CVD (ASCVD) risk in women veterans and has been successfully applied to assess the CVD risk for ...
Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, PhD, Xiaofei Chen, PhD, Erum Z. Whyne, PhD, Shirling Tsai, MD, Monica R. Barbosa, MD, Bala Ramanan, MBBS, Sujata Bhushan, MD, Dian Cao, MD   +7 more
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Prostate Cancer in Transgender Women in the Veterans Affairs Health System, 2000-2022.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2023
This case series investigated the rate of prostate cancer diagnoses among transgender women treated in the Veterans Affairs health system.
F. Nik-Ahd, A. D. De Hoedt, Christi Butler, J. Anger, Peter R. Carroll, M. Cooperberg, S. Freedland   +6 more
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Association of Intensive Care Unit Patient Load and Demand With Mortality Rates in US Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Network Open, 2021
This cohort study examines the association of patient caseload and demand with mortality among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in US Veterans Affairs (VA) intensive care units.
D. Bravata, A. Perkins, L. Myers, G. Arling, Ying Zhang, A. Zillich, L. Reese, Andrew T. Dysangco, R. Agarwal, Jennifer Myers, Charles Austin, Ali Sexson, Samuel J. Leonard, Sharmistha Dev, S. Keyhani   +14 more
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The "trauma pitch": How stigma emerges for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking disability compensation.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder continues to be a highly stigmatized disease for the veteran population and stigma, experienced as a mark of discredit or shame, continues to be identified as the main deterrent in treatment seeking.
Katinka Hooyer
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Prostate Cancer Outcomes in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System

JAMA Network Open, 2022
Key Points Question Are there racial and ethnic disparities associated with the incidence, clinical stage, and outcomes of prostate cancer among men treated in the Veterans Affairs health care system? Findings In this cohort study of 7.8 million patients,
K. Yamoah, K. Lee, S. Awasthi, Patrick R. Alba, Cristina Perez, Tori Anglin-Foote, B. Robison, A. Gao, S. Duvall, E. Katsoulakis, Y. Wong, S. Markt, B. Rose, R. Burri, Carrie Wang, O. Aboiralor, A. Fink, N. Nickols, J. Lynch, I. Garraway   +19 more
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Risk of COVID‐19 in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A National Veterans Affairs Matched Cohort Study in At‐Risk Individuals

Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2021
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and its treatments are associated with an increased risk of infection, but it remains unclear whether these factors have an impact on the risk or severity of COVID‐19.
B. England, P. Roul, Yangyuna Yang, A. Kalil, K. Michaud, G. Thiele, B. Sauer, J. Baker, T. Mikuls   +8 more
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Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization — Five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, United States, February 1–August 6, 2021

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) have been shown to be highly protective against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations (1-3). Data are limited on the level of protection against hospitalization among disproportionately affected ...
Kristina L. Bajema, R. Dahl, M. Prill, E. Meites, M. Rodriguez‐Barradas, V. Marconi, D. Beenhouwer, Sheldon T. Brown, M. Holodniy, C. Lucero-Obusan, Gilberto Rivera-Dominguez, Rosalba Gomez Morones, Alexis Whitmire, Evan Goldin, Steve L. Evener, Maraia Tremarelli, S. Tong, A. Hall, S. Schrag, M. McMorrow, Miwako Kobayashi, J. Verani, D. Surie, Ghazal Ahmadi-Izadi, J. Burnette, Rijalda Deović, L. Epstein, A. Hartley, Elena Morales, Tehquin Tanner, N. Patel, Ashley Tunson, K. Elliot, Ilda Graham, Diki Lama, Ismael Pena, A. Perea, Guerry Anabelle Perez, Johane Simelane, Sarah Smith, G. Tallin, A. Tisi, A. Lopez, Miguel Covarrubias Gonzalez, Bashir Lengi, Dena L. Mansouri, Mariana Vanoye Tamez, B. Aryanfar, Ian Lee-Chang, Chan Jeong, Anthony Z. Matolek, Chad Mendoza, A. Poteshkina, Saad Naeem, Madhuri Agrawal, J. López, Theresa Peters, G. Kudryavtseva, J. Cates, J. Folster, Anita K Kambhampati, Anna Kelleher, Yan Li, H. Ng, Ying Tao   +64 more
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Outpatient Care Fragmentation and Acute Care Utilization in Veterans Affairs Home-Based Primary Care

JAMA Network Open, 2022
Key Points Question What is the association between care fragmentation and acute care use among Veterans at high risk of hospitalization or death enrolled in Department of Veterans Affairs Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC)?
Samuel T. Edwards, L. Greene, Camila Chaudhary, Derek Boothroyd, Bruce Kinosian, Donna M. Zulman   +5 more
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