Veterans Health Administration

Despite efforts to enhance the quality of medication prescribing in outpatient settings, potentially inappropriate prescribing remains common, particularly in unscheduled settings where patients can present with infectious and pain-related complaints. Two of the most commonly prescribed medication classes in outpatient settings with frequent rates of potentially inappropriate prescribing include antibiotics and nonsteroidal anti-infammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

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Previous studies found that documentation of comorbidities differed when Veterans received care within versus outside Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Changes to medical center funding, increased attention to performance reporting, and expansion of Clinical Documentation Improvement programs, however, may have caused coding in VHA to change.

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To characterize patients who voluntarily enrolled in an electronic health information exchange (HIE) program designed to share data between Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and non-VHA institutions.

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This paper describes a new congestive heart failure (CHF) treatment performance measure information extraction system – CHIEF – developed as part of the Automated Data Acquisition for Heart Failure project, a Veterans Health Administration project aiming at improving the detection of patients not receiving recommended care for CHF.

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We sought to understand how patients and primary care teams use secure messaging (SM) to communicate with one another by analyzing secure message threads from 2 Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.

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Given the complexity of high-acuity health care, designing an effective clinical note template can be beneficial to both document patient care and clarify how telemedicine is used. We characterized documented interactions via a standardized note template between bedside intensive care unit (ICU) providers and teleintensivists in 2 Veterans Health Administration ICU telemedicine support centers.

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To examine sociodemographic characteristics associated with use of My HealtheVet (MHV) by veterans living with HIV. Materials and Methods: Veterans Health Administration administrative data were used to identify a cohort of veterans living with HIV in fiscal years 2011–2017. Descriptive analyses were conducted to examine demographic characteristics and racial/ethnic differences in MHV registration and tool use.

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To assess primary care teams’ perceptions of a health information exchange (HIE) event notification intervention for geriatric patients in 2 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical centers.

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At the Veterans Health Administration, an integrated health system that cares for 6 million Veterans each year, health services research has been an essential component of our research program for over two decades.

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Explore the perceived benefits of a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) geriatric specialty telemedicine service (GRECC Connect) among rural, older patients and caregivers to contribute to an assessment of its quality and value.

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To describe how a partnered evaluation of the Whole Health (WH) system of care—comprised of the WH pathway, clinical care, and well-being programs—produced patient outcomes findings, which informed Veterans Health Administration (VA) policy and system change.

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This study examined the primary source of health care between veterans with lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and similar identities (LGBTQ+) and non-LGBTQ+ veterans. Veterans (N = 20,497) from 17 states who completed the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System from 2016 to 2020, including the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Health Care Access modules.

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Paramount to population health is adequate access to care. Health systems can offer the highest quality care, but if their patients cannot access it, the benefits are lost. The National Academy of Medicine (previously, the Institute of Medicine) deems access to care— whenever needed and through whatever delivery method—a critical dimension of care quality.

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To identify work–environment characteristics associated with Veterans Health Administration (VHA) behavioral health provider (BHP) burnout among psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.

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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States (US). Among VHA patients, the rate of use of concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT) among those with unresectable, stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is unknown. The objective was to report recent CCRT treatment patterns in VHA patients and identify characteristics associated with receipt of CCRT.

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global health problem that is a substantial source of human suffering. Within the United States (US), women veterans are at high risk for experiencing IPV. There is an urgent need for feasible, acceptable, and patient-centered IPV counseling interventions for the growing number of women treated in the US’s largest integrated healthcare system, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).

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This means that even people who do not consciously invoke God as a justification for war may be acting as if they were. Carl Jung stated, ‘anything we have heard or experienced can become subliminal, that is to say, can pass into the unconsciousness. And even what we retain in our conscious mind and can reproduce at will has acquired an unconscious undertone that will colour the idea each time it is recalled’. 10 Again and again, in churches, temples, mosques, meetinghouses, synagogues and...

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How variations in genes contribute to variations in disease risk has been a subject of study for more than 100 years (IOM, 2006). Until fairly recently research focused on single genes that give rise to rare genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis or Huntington’s disease.

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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Research Open Access Health-related quality of life among older adults with arthritis Kelli L Dominick*1,2, Frank M Ahern3, Carol H Gold3 and Debra A Heller3,4 Address: 1Department of Health Services Research & Development, Durham Department of Veterans Administration Medical Center, 508 Fulton Street, Durham, NC 27705, USA, 2Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA, 3Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA and 4First Health Services Corpor...

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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Management perspectives on research contributions to practice through collaboration in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration: QUERI Series

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