Veterans Affairs
Effectiveness of off the shelf footwear in reducing foot pain in Australian Department of Veterans’ Affairs recipients not eligible for medical grade footwear: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA), as part of the Rehabilitation Appliances Program, covers the costs of medical grade footwear for veterans who have severe foot deformity (defined as feet that can- not be ...
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Accuracy and completeness of mortality data in the Department of Veterans Affairs
... Accurate data for mortality ascertainment are of critical importance for epidemiologic and health care outcomes studies. One of the national mortality databases in the U.S. is the Beneficiary Identification and Record ...
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The economic consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder in clients of Veterans Affairs Canada
... on Veterans Affairs Canada in particular links theory, data, and practice in a way that can benefit the respondents of my study directly; but, I hope that this work also informs and challenges, if not ...
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Lung and colorectal cancer treatment and outcomes in the Veterans Affairs health care system
... Abstract: Lung cancer (LC) and colorectal cancer (CRC) are the second- and third-most commonly diagnosed cancers in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system. While many stud- ies have evaluated the ...
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Transition to the new race/ethnicity data collection standards in the Department of Veterans Affairs
... This study examines how this federal mandate affects the collection and use of race/ethnicity data for a large federal agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Until 2003, the VA had collected data ...
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Cost of inpatient rehabilitation care in the Department of Veterans Affairs
... of Veterans Affairs (VA) and examined the relationship between length of stay (LOS) and discharge costs using data from VA and community rehabilita- tion ...
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Design of a prostate cancer patient navigation intervention for a Veterans Affairs hospital
... the Veterans Affairs (VA) system [12-14], while others demonstrate persistence of these disparities irrespective of reduced financial barriers to care ...assisted veterans in proactively identifying ...
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Implications for a Drug Take Back Program in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
... In 2013 a bill was introduced that addressed prescription drug abuse among current and former members of the military. The bill asked the Attorney General to establish drug take-back programs in coordination with the ...
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Potential impact of data source and interoperability messaging on health information technology (HIT) users: a study series from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
... of Veterans Affairs (VA) VHA Human Factors Engineering (HFE) team that address the intersection of these areas within a joint VA and Department of Defense (DoD) EHR viewer called the Joint Legacy Viewer ...
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The changing pattern of eligibility for veterans' affairs pensions
... Furthermore, as noted by paragraph 1.5.1.2 of the Report of the Monitoring Committee into the Veterans' Entitlement Act, 1986, such crossing of Bass Strait allowed subsequent service wit[r] ...
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Military Sexual Trauma and Mental Health Diagnoses in Female Veterans Returning from Afghanistan and Iraq: Barriers and Facilitators to Veterans Affairs Care
... Despite offering services for all veterans with conditions related to MST, this unfortunately does not necessarily provide a simple solution to treating these veterans’ concerns. If an individual who served ...
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Veterans’ experiences of patient-centered care: Learning from guided tours
... the Veterans who participated in this study, and the Patient- Centered Care staff and providers at the VA COIs for their assistance in recruitment and coordination of this ...of Veterans Affairs or ...
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How effective is low vision service provision? A systematic review
... male veterans who were legally ...The Veterans’ Affairs services tend to be more intensive than standard low vision services, and this is reflected in the effect sizes ...
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Vitamin D and responses to inhaled fluticasone in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... Subjects were recruited from the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center between May 2005 and February 2006. Inclusion criteria were: 1) a clinical diagnosis of COPD, with a FEV 1 /forced vital capacity ...
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Use of medicines and health services for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among a cohort of Australians over 50 years
... of Veterans’ Affairs ...includes veterans and war widows and ...80. Veterans, war widows and widowers, and dependents are eligible for DVA health ...
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A novel Met-to-Thr mutation in the YMDD motif of reverse transcriptase from feline immunodeficiency virus confers resistance to oxathiolane nucleosides.
... NORTH1* Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812,1 and Georgia VA Research Center for AIDS and HIV Infections, Veterans Affairs Medical Center,2 an[r] ...
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Molecular Analysis and Clinical Significance of Lactobacillus spp Recovered from Clinical Specimens Presumptively Associated with Disease
... In this retrospective study of laboratory records between 1998 and 2013 at the Veterans Affairs medical centers in Houston, TX, and Seattle, WA, we identified a total of 107 Lactobacillu[r] ...
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Reference effect measures for quantifying, comparing and visualizing variation from random and fixed effects in non-normal multilevel models, with applications to site variation in medical procedure use and outcomes
... the Veterans Affairs (VA), we use REM to demonstrate that random variation across hospitals (GCE) in initiation of treatment is substantially greater than that due to most individual patient factors, and ...
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QUERI and implementation research: Emerging from adolescence into adulthood: QUERI Series
... Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) was launched in 1998. QUERI was designed to harness VA's health services research expertise and reso[r] ...
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Comparison of low dose daily Cisplatin versus weekly Cisplatin concurrently with accelerated radiotherapy in locally advanced head and neck cancers
... The Department of Veterans Affairs Laryngeal Cancer study Group conducted a prospective randomised control study in locally advanced laryngeal cancer. The aim of this study was to compare the option of ...
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