Hospitals, Veterans

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Multi-Institutional Prospective Trial Confirms Noninvasive Blood Test Maintains Predictive Value in African American Men. 
  • A Preliminary Study Examining the Prevalence and Perceived Intensity of Morally Injurious Events in a Veterans Affairs Chaplaincy Spiritual Injury Support Group. 
  • A Quality Improvement Initiative for Designing and Implementing a Military Service Screening Tool for a Community Emergency Department. 
  • A clinical trial of a rehabilitation expert clinician versus usual care for providing manual wheelchairs. 
  • A comparison of three health status measures in primary care outpatients. 
  • A controlled trial of inpatient and outpatient geriatric evaluation and management. 
  • A descriptive evaluation of eligibility for therapy among veterans with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. 
  • A nurse-coordinated intervention for primary care patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: impact on glycemic control and health-related quality of life. 
  • A pilot randomized placebo-controlled trial of adjunctive aripiprazole for chronic PTSD in US military Veterans resistant to antidepressant treatment. 
  • A taxonomy for classification of stroke rehabilitation services. 
  • Access to multiple sclerosis specialty care. 
  • Adherence to Teledermatology Recommendations by Primary Health Care Professionals: Strategies for Improving Follow-up on Teledermatology Recommendations. 
  • Adherence to mental health treatment in a primary care clinic. 
  • Adherence to postacute rehabilitation guidelines is associated with functional recovery in stroke. 
  • Adherence to self-quarantine recommendations during an outbreak of norovirus infection. 
  • Adverse health outcomes after discharge from the emergency department--incidence and risk factors in a veteran population. 
  • Adverse impact of coercive treatments on psychiatric inpatients' satisfaction with care. 
  • An examination of racial differences in process and outcome of colorectal cancer care quality among users of the veterans affairs health care system. 
  • Appropriateness of medication prescribing in ambulatory elderly patients. 
  • Are physicians aware of which of their patients have indwelling urinary catheters? 
  • Are primary care services a substitute or complement for specialty and inpatient services? 
  • Arthritis prevalence and symptoms among US non-veterans, veterans, and veterans receiving Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare. 
  • Assisted early mobility for hospitalized older veterans: preliminary data from the STRIDE program. 
  • Association of Multimorbidity with Mortality and Healthcare Utilization in Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • At-Home Versus In-Clinic INR Monitoring: A Cost-Utility Analysis from The Home INR Study (THINRS). 
  • Behavioral interventions to improve hypertension control in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system. 
  • Building capacity in VA to provide emergency gynecology services for women. 
  • Carotid endarterectomy and race: do clinical indications and patient preferences account for differences? 
  • Cervical corpectomy: complications and outcomes. 
  • Changes in health-related quality of life in off-pump versus on-pump cardiac surgery: Veterans Affairs Randomized On/Off Bypass trial. 
  • Chaplaincy Encounters Following a Suicide Attempt. 
  • Chronic disease management perspectives of colorectal cancer survivors using the Veterans Affairs healthcare system: a qualitative analysis. 
  • Classifying general medicine readmissions. Are they preventable? Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies in Health Services Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmissions. 
  • Clinic visit and waiting: patient education and satisfaction. 
  • Colonoscopy withdrawal time and risk of neoplasia at 5 years: results from VA Cooperative Studies Program 380. 
  • Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: experience of a veteran affairs medical center in southeastern USA. 
  • Comparative analysis of vagotomy and drainage versus vagotomy and resection procedures for bleeding peptic ulcer disease: results of 907 patients from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Comparison of Outcomes and Costs Associated With Aspirin ± Clopidogrel After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • Comparison of medicine resident diabetes care between Veterans Affairs and academic health care systems. 
  • Compliance with referral for hepatitis C evaluation among veterans. 
  • Contrasting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in Veterans Affairs and community nursing homes. 
  • Correlates of skin-related quality of life (QoL) in those with multiple keratinocyte carcinomas (KCs): A cross-sectional study. 
  • Cost and utilization outcomes of patients receiving hospital-based palliative care consultation. 
  • Cost, utilization, and policy of provision of assistive technology devices to veterans poststroke by Medicare and VA. 
  • Creating a Practice-Based Implementation Network: Facilitating Practice Change Across Health Care Systems. 
  • Current use and training needs of point-of-care ultrasound in emergency departments: A national survey of VA hospitals. 
  • DNA methylation profiles are associated with complex regional pain syndrome after traumatic injury. 
  • Depression in elderly hospitalized patients with medical illness. 
  • Determinants of postsurgical discharge setting for male hip fracture patients. 
  • Determining VA physician requirements through empirically based models. 
  • Did Massachusetts Health Reform Affect Veterans Affairs Primary Care Use? 
  • Differences in patient characteristics between Veterans Administration and community hospitals. Implications for VA planning. 
  • Differences in rehabilitation services and outcomes among stroke patients cared for in veterans hospitals. 
  • Diffusion of Excellence: Accelerating the Spread of Clinical Innovation and Best Practices across the Nation's Largest Health System. 
  • Discontinuation of diabetes and lipid-lowering medications after bariatric surgery at Veterans Affairs medical centers. 
  • Does increased access to primary care reduce hospital readmissions? Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmission. 
  • Does the presence of a pharmacist in primary care clinics improve diabetes medication adherence? 
  • Driving-impaired patients leaving the emergency department. The problem of inadequate instructions. 
  • Drug use and validity of substance use self-reports in veterans seeking help for posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Economic analysis of a tailored behavioral intervention to improve blood pressure control for primary care patients. 
  • Education partnerships between GRECCs and other VA organizations, Non-VA governmental agencies, academic medical centers, and centers of excellence. 
  • Effect of the Veterans Affairs Medical System on plastic surgery residency training. 
  • Effectiveness of automatic diagnostic test result feedback on outpatient laboratory and radiology testing in veterans. A controlled trial. 
  • Effects of geriatric evaluation and management on adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in the frail elderly. 
  • Effects of race and poverty on the process and outcome of inpatient rehabilitation services among stroke patients. 
  • Emergence of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and therapy of colonized personnel during a hospital-wide outbreak. 
  • Emergency department visits in Veterans Affairs medical facilities. 
  • Emergency medicine in the Veterans Health Administration-results from a nationwide survey. 
  • Endovascular aneurysm repair is associated with less malnutrition than open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • Enhanced access to primary care for patients with congestive heart failure. Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmission. 
  • Enhancing Quality of Provider Practices for Older Adults in the Emergency Department (EQUiPPED). 
  • Evaluating diagnosis-based risk-adjustment methods in a population with spinal cord dysfunction. 
  • Evaluating persistent pain in long term care residents: what role for pain maps? 
  • Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinics. 
  • Expert physician recommendations and current practice patterns for evaluating and treating men with osteoporotic hip fracture. 
  • Factors influencing morning report case presentations. 
  • Growing use of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the national Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study: effects on volume, patient selection, and selected outcomes. 
  • Health care utilization and expenditure changes associated with bariatric surgery. 
  • Health expenditures among high-risk patients after gastric bypass and matched controls. 
  • Health services use of older veterans treated and released from veterans affairs medical center emergency departments. 
  • Home health care and patterns of subsequent VA and medicare health care utilization for veterans. 
  • Hospice education about people with AIDS as terminally ill patients: coping with a new epidemic of death. 
  • Hospital readmission rates: are we measuring the right thing? 
  • Hospital-acquired complications in a randomized controlled clinical trial of a geriatric consultation team. 
  • Impact of a multidisciplinary thoracic oncology clinic on the timeliness of care. 
  • Impact of prior local therapy on overall survival in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: Results from Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital. 
  • Implementation of Perioperative Music Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. 
  • Improving HIV screening and receipt of results by nurse-initiated streamlined counseling and rapid testing. 
  • Improving geriatric prescribing in the ED: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to clinical decision support tool use. 
  • Improving processes of hospital care during the last hours of life. 
  • In Men with Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer, Visceral Metastases Predict Shorter Overall Survival: What Predicts Visceral Metastases? Results from the SEARCH Database. 
  • Inappropriate nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use: prevalence and predictors. 
  • Incidence and Prognostic Impact of Incomplete Revascularization Documented by Coronary Angiography 1 Year After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • Increasing PET Use in Small Cell Lung Cancer: Survival Improvement and Stage Migration in the VA Central Cancer Registry. 
  • Increasing copayments and adherence to diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemic medications. 
  • Inpatient care for elderly cancer patients: the role for Geriatric Evaluation and Management Units in fulfilling goals for care. 
  • Inpatient hospital utilization among veterans with traumatic spinal cord injury. 
  • Inside-out: the changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Is specialty care associated with improved survival of patients with congestive heart failure? 
  • Long-term results of a postoperative pneumonia prevention program for the inpatient surgical ward. 
  • Longitudinal adherence to fecal occult blood testing impacts colorectal cancer screening quality. 
  • Lower Post Myocardial Infarction Mortality Among Women Treated at Veterans Affairs Hospitals Compared to Men. 
  • Major depressive disorder in hospitalized medically ill patients: an examination of young and elderly male veterans. 
  • Measuring costs in multisite randomized controlled trials: lessons from the VA Cooperative Studies Program. 
  • Measuring numeracy without a math test: development of the Subjective Numeracy Scale. 
  • Measuring the Quality of VA Care. 
  • Medical clinics versus usual care for patients with both diabetes and hypertension: a randomized trial. 
  • Monocyte counts and prostate cancer outcomes in white and black men: results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Moral injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and religious involvement among U.S. veterans. 
  • Motivations of Males with Severe Obesity, Who Pursue Medical Weight Management or Bariatric Surgery. 
  • Nurse staffing and patient care costs in acute inpatient nursing units. 
  • Obesity prevalence among veterans at Veterans Affairs medical facilities. 
  • Operating Room-to-ICU Patient Handovers: A Multidisciplinary Human-Centered Design Approach. 
  • Oral and maxillofacial surgery careers in the military and department of veterans affairs. 
  • Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation Between Veterans Affairs and Civilian Hospitals: Considerations in the Context of the MISSION Act. 
  • Outpatient surgical utilization in Veterans Affairs hospitals, 1981-1989. 
  • Overcoming inertia: improvement in achieving target low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. 
  • PTSD Care Among Veterans With and Without Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders. 
  • Participant evaluation of a telephone-based osteoarthritis self-management program, 2006-2009. 
  • Patient and clinician satisfaction with a store-and-forward teledermatology consult system. 
  • Patient complexity, prescriber continuity and acute care. 
  • Patient discourse on chronic kidney disease monitoring: a qualitative study at a Veterans Affairs Renal Clinic. 
  • Patient education and provider decision support to control blood pressure in primary care: a cluster randomized trial. 
  • Patient factors related to the odds of receiving prevention services in Veterans Health Administration medical centers. 
  • Patient satisfaction and use of Veterans Affairs versus non-Veterans Affairs healthcare services by veterans. 
  • Patient satisfaction in resident and attending ambulatory care clinics. 
  • Patient-reported medication adherence barriers among patients with cardiovascular risk factors. 
  • Patient-reported quality of supportive care among patients with colorectal cancer in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System. 
  • Patterns of opioid analgesic prescription among patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Performance of the serum cobalamin assay for diagnosis of cobalamin deficiency. 
  • Physician process and patient outcome measures for diabetes care: relationships to organizational characteristics. 
  • Physiological arousal among women veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Pilot study: individualized training for caregivers of hospitalized older veterans. 
  • Predicting Time From Metastasis to Overall Survival in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Results From SEARCH. 
  • Predicting costs of Veterans Affairs health care in Gulf War veterans with medically unexplained physical symptoms. 
  • Predictors and Barriers to Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Older Veterans Living With HIV. 
  • Predictors of initial weight loss after gastric bypass surgery in twelve Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. 
  • Predictors of operative time during radical retropubic prostatectomy and robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy. 
  • Predictors of two-year post-hospitalization mortality among elderly veterans in a study evaluating a geriatric consultation team. 
  • Preoperative Disability in US Veterans. 
  • Preoperative factors associated with worsening in health-related quality of life following coronary artery bypass grafting in the Randomized On/Off Bypass (ROOBY) trial. 
  • Prevention services received by veterans visiting VHA facilities. 
  • Public health clinical demonstration project for smoking cessation in american veterans who served since september 11, 2001. 
  • Quality of nonmetastatic colorectal cancer care in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • Quality of pharmacotherapy and outcomes for older veterans discharged from the emergency department. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities Among Women in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System: A Systematic Review. 
  • Racial variations in postoperative outcomes of carotid endarterectomy: evidence from the Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. 
  • Racial variations in the rates of carotid angiography and endarterectomy in patients with stroke and transient ischemic attack. 
  • Reductions in telemetry order duration do not reduce telemetry utilization. 
  • Relevance of the ADAM and UK Small Aneurysm trial data in the age of endovascular aneurysm repair. 
  • Research and Operations: Joining Forces to Improve Care for Veterans. 
  • Results of a randomized controlled trial of intervention to implement smoking guidelines in Veterans Affairs medical centers: increased use of medications without cessation benefit. 
  • Risk adjustment for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. 
  • Risk indexes for exacerbations and hospitalizations due to COPD. 
  • Screening for depression in hospitalized elderly medical patients: taking a closer look. 
  • Screening for diabetes in an outpatient clinic population. 
  • Self-rated depressive symptoms in medical inpatients: age and racial differences. 
  • Serving the health needs of our military and veterans. 
  • Short- and long-term prognosis among veterans with neurological disorders and subsequent lower-extremity amputation. 
  • Smokeless tobacco use in an outpatient veteran population. 
  • Stroke care: a method for measuring compliance with AHCPR guidelines. 
  • Study of Cardiovascular Health Outcomes in the Era of Claims Data: The Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Study protocol: home-based telehealth stroke care: a randomized trial for veterans. 
  • Surgeon judgment and utility of transit time flow probes in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. 
  • Survey analysis of combat-related stress disorders in Viet Nam veterans. 
  • Survival among Veterans Obtaining Dialysis in VA and Non-VA Settings. 
  • Teledermatology's impact on time to intervention among referrals to a dermatology consult service. 
  • The Veterans Affairs Learners' Perceptions Survey: the foundation for educational quality improvement. 
  • The epidemiology of health problems in returning Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans. A national and North Carolina-based summary. 
  • The impact of contract primary care on health care expenditures and quality of care. 
  • The impact of supervised exercise on the psychological well-being and health status of older veterans. 
  • The intersection of patient complexity, prescriber continuity and acute care utilization. 
  • The performance of administrative and self-reported measures for risk adjustment of Veterans Affairs expenditures. 
  • The quality of pharmacotherapy in older veterans discharged from the emergency department or urgent care clinic. 
  • The receipt of prevention services by veterans using VA versus non-VA facilities. 
  • The relationship between glycemic control and health-related quality of life in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 
  • The structure and structural effects of VA rehabilitation bedservice care for stroke. 
  • The use of ECT within the Veterans Administration hospital system. 
  • Therapeutic failure-related hospitalisations in the frail elderly. 
  • Thiazide use is associated with reduced risk for incident lower extremity fractures in men with spinal cord injury. 
  • Time Trends in Use of Radical Prostatectomy by Tumor Risk and Life Expectancy in a National Veterans Affairs Cohort. 
  • To what extent should quality of care decisions be based on health outcomes data? Application to carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Transitional Care Partners: a hospital-to-home support for older adults and their caregivers. 
  • Treatment intensification in a hypertension telemanagement trial: clinical inertia or good clinical judgment? 
  • Two-year outcomes in primary THA in obese male veterans administration medical center patients. 
  • Uncovering the Epidemiology of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in the Veterans Affairs Health System. 
  • Use of outpatient care in Veterans Health Administration and Medicare among veterans receiving primary care in community-based and hospital outpatient clinics. 
  • Use of psychosocial support services among male Veterans Affairs colorectal cancer patients. 
  • Using local rather than general anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair is associated with shorter operative time and enhanced postoperative recovery. 
  • Utilization and expenditures of veterans obtaining primary care in community clinics and VA medical centers: an observational cohort study. 
  • Utilization of hospital-based chaplain services among newly diagnosed male Veterans Affairs colorectal cancer patients. 
  • VA Stroke Study: neurologist care is associated with increased testing but improved outcomes. 
  • VA community-based outpatient clinics: access and utilization performance measures. 
  • VA community-based outpatient clinics: cost performance measures. 
  • VA's enduring commitment to veterans. 
  • Validation of a genomic classifier for prediction of metastasis and prostate cancer-specific mortality in African-American men following radical prostatectomy in an equal access healthcare setting. 
  • Validation of the 2015 prostate cancer grade groups for predicting long-term oncologic outcomes in a shared equal-access health system. 
  • Validation of the Subjective Numeracy Scale: effects of low numeracy on comprehension of risk communications and utility elicitations. 
  • Validity rates of the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 in a VA Medical Center Setting. 
  • Veterans Administration Acute Stroke (VASt) Study: lack of race/ethnic-based differences in utilization of stroke-related procedures or services. 
  • Veterans Affairs Research and Development: using science to improve health care for veterans. 
  • Veterans more likely to start hemodialysis with an arteriovenous fistula. 
  • Veterans' Preferences for Receiving Information About VA Services: Is Getting the Information You Want Related to Increased Health Care Utilization? 
  • Wheelchair use by veterans newly prescribed a manual wheelchair. 
  • Why elderly veterans choose VA services. 
  • Wide clinic-level variation in adherence to oral diabetes medications in the VA. 
  • Women Veterans' Experiences with Perceived Gender Bias in U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Specialty Care. 
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  • Bradford, Daniel William, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Dedert, Eric, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Gellad, Ziad F., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Lewinski, Allison A., Assistant Research Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society