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Assessment of Rates of Suicide Risk Screening and Prevalence of Positive Screening Results Among US Veterans After Implementation of the Veterans Affairs Suicide Risk Identification Strategy

JAMA Network Open, 2020
Key Points Question Are population-level suicide risk screening and evaluation feasible in Veterans Health Administration medical settings and do they identify patients at risk for suicide? Findings In this cross-sectional study of more than 4 million US
Nazanin H. Bahraini, L. Brenner, Catherine N. Barry, Trisha A Hostetter, Janelle N. Keusch, E. Post, Chad Kessler, Cliff Smith, Bridget B Matarazzo   +8 more
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Trends in Readmission and Mortality Rates Following Heart Failure Hospitalization in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System From 2007 to 2017.

JAMA cardiology, 2020
Importance The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Veterans Affairs Health Care System provide incentives for hospitals to reduce 30-day readmission and mortality rates.
J. Parizo, S. Kohsaka, Alexander T. Sandhu, Jay Patel, P. Heidenreich   +4 more
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Premature Discontinuation of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Coronary Stenting in Veterans: Characteristics and Long‐Term Outcomes

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background Premature discontinuation of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention is related to higher short‐term risks of adverse outcomes. Whether these risks persist in the long‐term is uncertain. Methods and Results We
Scott Kinlay, Lien Quach, Jean Cormack, Natalie Morgenstern, Ying Hou, Melissa Young, Rebecca Sherrod, Kelly Cho, David P. Faxon, Ronnie Ramadan, Michael Gaziano, David Gagnon   +11 more
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Management of Rheumatic Diseases During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A National Veterans Affairs Survey of Rheumatologists

Arthritis care & research, 2020
To assess the experience, views, and opinions of rheumatology providers at Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities about rheumatic disease health care issues during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
J. Singh, J. Richards, E. Chang, A. Joseph, B. Ng   +4 more
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Comparing the utilization and cost of health services between veterans experiencing brief and ongoing episodes of housing instability [PDF]

, 2017
Housing instability is associated with costly patterns of health and behavioral health service use. However, little prior research has examined patterns of service use associated with higher costs among those experiencing ongoing housing instability.
Brignone, Emily, Byrne, Thomas H., Fargo, Jamison D., Gundlapalli, Adi V., Montgomery, Ann Elizabeth, Nelson, Richard E.   +5 more
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Guidance concerning chiropractic practice in response to COVID-19 in the U.S.: a summary of state regulators’ web-based information

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2020
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented changes, as many state and local governments enacted stay-at-home orders and non-essential businesses were closed. State chiropractic licensing boards play an important role in protecting the public
Shawn M. Neff, Christopher B. Roecker, Casey S. Okamoto, Samuel L. Holguin, Jason G. Napuli, Ross Mattox, Nathan A. Hinkeldey, David J. Paris   +7 more
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Veterans Finding Community and a “Home” Within an Emergency Housing Environment

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2023
In April 2020, the Department of Veterans Affairs responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and escalating unsheltered homelessness in Los Angeles by sanctioning a tent turned tiny shelter encampment at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs medical center ...
Kimberly A. Lynch, Matthew McCoy, Sonya Gabrielian   +2 more
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Predictive modeling of housing instability and homelessness in the Veterans Health Administration [PDF]

, 2019
OBJECTIVE: To develop and test predictive models of housing instability and homelessness based on responses to a brief screening instrument administered throughout the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
Baggett, Bejan, Burt, DeVoe, Dichter, Elixhauser, Folsom, Fung, Gamache, Garg, Garg, Garg, Gold, Gottlieb, Gottlieb, Green, Greer, Gundlapalli, Hosmer, Hwang, Hwang, James, Japkowicz, Kessler, Kuhn, Kuhn, LaForge, Latimer, McCarthy, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Morone, O'Toole, Oreskovic, Peterson, Salit, Shaw, Shelton, Shinn, Tsai, Vickery, Zech   +42 more
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Gemfibrozil for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in men with low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Veterans Affairs High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Intervention Trial Study Group.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1999
BACKGROUND Although it is generally accepted that lowering elevated serum levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in patients with coronary heart disease is beneficial, there are few data to guide decisions about therapy for patients whose ...
H. Rubins, S. Robins, D. Collins, C. Fye, James W. Anderson, M. Elam, F. Faas, E. Linares, E. Schaefer, G. Schectman, T. Wilt, J. Wittes   +11 more
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Recognizing the Needs of High-Need High-Risk Veterans

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2022
Stuti Dang,1– 3 Marianne Desir,1– 3 Shiv Lamba,4 Kiranmayee Muralidhar,1 Fei Tang,2 Willy Marcos Valencia5 1Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA; 2Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Miami Veterans Affairs ...
Dang S, Desir M, Lamba S, Muralidhar K, Tang F, Valencia WM   +5 more
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