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Veterans’ Access to and Use of Medicare and Veterans Affairs Health Care

Medical Care, 2007
We examined the impact of access to care characteristics on health care use patterns among those veterans dually eligible for Medicare and Veterans Affairs (VA) services.We used a retrospective, cross-sectional design to identify veterans who were eligible to use VA and Medicare health care in calendar year 1999. We analyzed national VA utilization and
Larry M. Manheim, Linda Kok, Frances M. Weaver, Noreen Arnold, Denise M. Hynes, Katherine Mallin, Kristin Koelling, Kevin T. Stroupe, Min-Woong Sohn   +8 more
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The Future of the Department of Veterans Affairs

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995
To the Editor. —The recent article by Drs Fisher and Welsh 1 and the Editorial by Dr Pittman 2 illustrate that the future of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is no less than the future of academic medicine. The future of both relies on solving the health care crisis, which itself is due to the following three main problems: escalating costs ...
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Characteristics Of Veterans Using Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinics

Journal Of Health Care For The Poor And Underserved, 2002
In the late 1990s, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) initiated a system of community-based outpatient clinics to enhance access to care. The purpose of this study was to explore factors that may be related to veterans' desire to transfer care from VA-based to community clinics.
Hanna Bloomfield Rubins, Paul R. Hamann, Steven J. Borowsky, Jenni L. Bradley, Claire J. Stolee, David B Nelson, Sean Nugent   +6 more
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Diabetes in Nonveterans, Veterans, and Veterans Receiving Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care

Diabetes Care, 2004
OBJECTIVE—To compare behavioral risk factors and health and disease characteristics among three groups of adults with diabetes: nonveterans, veterans not receiving Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care, and veterans using VA services.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Two data sources were used to describe the veteran population.
Edward J. Boyko, Charles Maynard, Linda B. Haas, Thomas D. Koepsell, Gayle E. Reiber   +4 more
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Systematic Review

Medical Care, 2011
The Veterans Health Administration, the nation's largest integrated delivery system, launched an organizational transformation in the mid 1990 s to improve the quality of its care.To synthesize the evidence comparing the quality of medical and other nonsurgical care in Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA settings.MEDLINE database and bibliographies of ...
Sierra Matula, Peter A. Glassman, Isomi M Miake-Lye, Amal N. Trivedi, Paul G. Shekelle, Steven M. Asch   +5 more
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Medical-Legal Partnerships At Veterans Affairs Medical Centers Improved Housing And Psychosocial Outcomes For Vets.

Health Affairs, 2017
Medical-legal partnerships-collaborations between legal professionals and health care providers that help patients address civil legal problems that can affect health and well-being-have been implemented at several Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers ...
J. Tsai, M. Middleton, J. Villegas, Cindy Johnson, R. Retkin, Alison Seidman, Scott Sherman, R. Rosenheck   +7 more
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Veterans Affairs Continuity Clinics

2017
Many Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals are also aligned with medical schools, which present an opportunity to integrate its internal medicine residents into a primary care continuity clinic. The ambulatory care model used in the VA is the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT), a variant of the patient-centered medical home. This chapter offers support for the
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Veterans Affairs Research Under Threat

JAMA Internal Medicine
This Viewpoint discusses the critical importance of continued funding for the intramural research program in the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Stephan D, Fihn, David, Atkins, Timothy, O'Leary, Kenneth W, Kizer   +3 more
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Physicians in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1992
There is an ongoing discussion pertaining to the mutually beneficial relationship between the medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and their affiliated medical schools. An earlier article analyzed the interorganizational conflicts prevalent at times between the VA medical centers and the medical school affiliates and assigned as ...
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Outcome After Admission at Veterans Affairs vs Non–Veterans Affairs Hospitals

JAMA, 2016
Thomas R. Radomski, Michael J. Fine, Walid F. Gellad   +2 more
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