Veterans Health Administration
Characteristics of primary care office visits to nurse practitioners, physician assistants and physicians in United States Veterans Health Administration facilities, 2005 to 2010:a retrospective cross-sectional analysis
... of health system equity, efficiency, and effectiveness, is threatened by inadequate supply and distribution of the provider ...The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has been a frontrunner ...
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Management perspectives on research contributions to practice through collaboration in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration: QUERI Series
... connect health services researchers to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) management and operations, as well as to provide the science and initiative for making ...
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Serious mental illnesses associated with receipt of surgery in retrospective analysis of patients in the Veterans Health Administration
... The Veterans Health Administration defines serious mental illness as schizo- phrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or major depressive disorder (MDD), and allocates ...
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<p>Treatment of a Large Cohort of Veterans Experiencing Musculoskeletal Disorders with Spinal Cord Stimulation in the Veterans Health Administration: Veteran Characteristics and Outcomes</p>
... those veterans who received SCS implants versus those who did ...among veterans who received SCS implants (Categorical pain intensity 0 – 10 Chi-square test, chi- square= ...of veterans had pain ...
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Factors affecting the use of patient survey data for quality improvement in the Veterans Health Administration
... We used a unique longitudinal database of patient experience data to identify VA facilities with objective and sustained evidence of high performance or improve- ment for more detailed study. This research strategy might ...
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Clinical decisions surrounding genomic and proteomic testing among United States veterans treated for lung cancer within the Veterans Health Administration
... Over the last 5 years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of biological markers included in clinical practice guidelines and in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals for new treatments, ...
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Prescription of topiramate to treat alcohol use disorders in the Veterans Health Administration
... This study has several limitations, including a cross- sectional observational study design that was limited to patients treated in VHA facilities, which limits causal in- terpretation of findings and may not generalize ...
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Receipt of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder by justice-involved women in the Veterans Health Administration
... Patient health characteristics included co-occur- ring psychiatric disorder (depressive disorders, post-trau- matic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, other psychosis, or ...
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Factors associated with internal medicine physician job attitudes in the Veterans Health Administration
... We found the extent of research involvement was asso- ciated with favorable scores on outcomes. The finding may support the practice of allowing protected time for physicians to pursue research activities. VA has a long ...
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A study to reduce readmissions after surgery in the Veterans Health Administration: design and methodology
... Our second aim is to assess potential patient factors not currently collected by VASQIP and analyze their associ- ation with readmission using surveys at four VA facilities. The readmissions literature on surgical ...
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Comparison of rapid vs in-depth qualitative analytic methods from a process evaluation of academic detailing in the Veterans Health Administration
... The slow pace of healthcare research has been cited as a contributing factor to the dissemination of less relevant or even obsolete findings, resulting in the call for more flex- ible and rapid research designs [1]. ...
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Dual use of Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration: are there adverse health outcomes?
... The exclusion of so many AHEAD men from these analy- ses raised the potential for selection bias. This potential for selection bias was addressed using propensity score methods. Developed by Rubin, [40] popularized by ...
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Key components of external facilitation in an acute stroke quality improvement collaborative in the Veterans Health Administration
... 11 Veterans Affair (VA) Medical ...the Veterans Health Admin- istration (VHA), the VA stroke Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) [12] partnered with VA Center for Applied Systems ...
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Cause of death in Washington state veterans hospitalized with acute coronary syndromes in the veterans health administration
... State veterans who used VA health care were more likely to die of alcohol and/or drug related causes than veterans who did not use VA health care ...for Health Statistics does support ...
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User survey finds rapid evidence reviews increased uptake of evidence by Veterans Health Administration leadership to inform fast-paced health-system decision-making
... In 2012, in response to VHA operational partner feed- back, the VA ESP added rapid reviews to support the VHA’s more urgent decision-making needs [17]. The ESP CC increased capacity to provide this product and added a ...
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The most used and most helpful facilitators for patient-centered medical home implementation
... The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) launched a nationwide PCMH initiative, called the Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT), in 2010 [17] investing $822 million [9] in additional staff and ...
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Study protocol of “CHAPS”: a randomized controlled trial protocol of Care Coordination for Health Promotion and Activities in Parkinson’s Disease to improve the quality of care for individuals with Parkinson’s disease
... for health promotion and activities in Parkinson ’ s disease; VA: Veterans health administration; CCM: Chronic care model; PADRECC: Parkinson ’ s disease research and education clinical ...
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PARIHS revisited: from heuristic to integrated framework for the successful implementation of knowledge into practice
... and health care [53, ...neonatal health and survival ...States Veterans Health Administration, a number of studies have demonstrated the benefits of using facilitation to support the ...
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An observational study of the effectiveness of practice guideline implementation strategies examined according to physicians' cognitive styles
... Methods: We conducted an observational study of the implementation of guidelines for hypertension management among patients with diabetes at 43 Veterans' Health Administration medical center primary ...
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Creating a 13-year National Longitudinal Cohort of veterans with chronic kidney disease
... the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) National Patient Care were linked to create a national cohort of Veterans with chronic kidney disease (CKD) between January 2000 – December 2012; ...
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