Veterans Health

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Health Services Research Agenda for Bariatric Surgery Within the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • A System-Level Approach to Overweight and Obesity in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • A health literacy pilot intervention to improve medication adherence using Meducation® technology. 
  • A re-conceptualization of access for 21st century healthcare. 
  • Accelerating Implementation of Virtual Care in an Integrated Health Care System: Future Research and Operations Priorities. 
  • Access to multiple sclerosis specialty care. 
  • An assessment of survey measures used across key epidemiologic studies of United States Gulf War I Era veterans. 
  • An electronic health record based model predicts statin adherence, LDL cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease in the United States Military Health System. 
  • An examination of the broader effects of warzone experiences on returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans' psychiatric health. 
  • Arteriovenous Graft Failure in the Veterans Health Administration: Outcome Disparities Associated with Race. 
  • Arthritis among veterans - United States, 2011-2013. 
  • Assessment of the Frequency, Phenotypes, and Outcomes of Acute Liver Injury Associated with Amoxicillin/Clavulanate in 1.4 Million Patients in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Association Between Chronic Kidney Disease and Rates of Transfusion and Progression to End-Stage Renal Disease in Patients Undergoing Transradial Versus Transfemoral Cardiac Catheterization-An Analysis From the Veterans Affairs Clinical Assessment Reporting and Tracking (CART) Program. 
  • Associations between cigarette smoking and pain among veterans. 
  • Blood Lead, Bone Turnover, and Survival in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. 
  • Body Mass Index and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Study of US Military Veterans. 
  • COVID-19 pandemic and surgical training: cataract surgery in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Cancer Among Women Treated in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. 
  • Characteristics and Health Care Preferences Associated with Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Women Veterans. 
  • Characteristics and Practice Patterns of U.S. Veterans Health Administration Doctors of Chiropractic: A Cross-sectional Survey. 
  • Characteristics of Veterans diagnosed with seizures within Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Characteristics of dual drug benefit use among veterans with dementia enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Part D. 
  • Cigarette smoking rates among veterans: Association with rurality and psychiatric disorders. 
  • Clinical Factors Associated with Successful Discharge from Assertive Community Treatment. 
  • Clinical Outcomes and Technical Approach of Thymectomy in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Clinical utility of an intimate partner violence screening tool for female VHA patients. 
  • Consideration of ICD-9 code-derived disease-specific safety indicators in CKD. 
  • DASH Score and Subsequent Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: The Findings From Million Veteran Program. 
  • Defining core issues in utilizing information technology to improve access: evaluation and research agenda. 
  • Determining optimal prostate-specific antigen thresholds to identify an increased 4-year risk of prostate cancer development: an analysis within the Veterans Affairs Health Care System. 
  • Development of a Multi-Study Repository to Support Research on Veteran Health: The VA Cooperative Studies Program Epidemiology Center-Durham (CSPEC-Durham) Data and Specimen Repository. 
  • Development of a Periprocedure Trigger for Outpatient Interventional Radiology Procedures in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Development, implementation and user experience of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) dialysis dashboard. 
  • Diabetes Prevention Program Translation in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy of three scoring methods for the Davidson Trauma Scale among U.S. military veterans. 
  • Disaster preparedness and response practices among providers from the Veterans Health Administration and Veterans with spinal cord injuries and/or disorders. 
  • Distribution of survival times in a real-world cohort of older adults with chronic kidney disease: the median may not be the message. 
  • Dizziness, Vertigo, and Mental Health Comorbidity in Gulf War Veterans. 
  • Enhancing the Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged from the Emergency Department (EQUiPPED): Preliminary Results from Enhancing Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged from the Emergency Department, a Novel Multicomponent Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Examining the Dose-Response Relationship in the Veterans Health Administration's MOVE!® Weight Management Program: A Nationwide Observational Study. 
  • Exploration of the influence of childhood trauma, combat exposure, and the resilience construct on depression and suicidal ideation among U.S. Iraq/Afghanistan era military personnel and veterans. 
  • Facility-level conditions leading to higher reach: a configurational analysis of national VA weight management programming. 
  • Facility-level program components leading to population impact: a coincidence analysis of obesity treatment options within the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Factors Associated With Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions After Invasive Outpatient Procedures in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Factors Associated With Missed and Cancelled Colonoscopy Appointments at Veterans Health Administration Facilities. 
  • Feasibility Study of a Quasi-experimental Regional Opioid Safety Prescribing Program in Veterans Health Administration Emergency Departments. 
  • Fewer potentially avoidable health care events in rural veterans with self-directed care versus other personal care services. 
  • Gender Differences in Demographic and Health Characteristics of the Million Veteran Program Cohort. 
  • Geographic Variation in Obesity, Behavioral Treatment, and Bariatric Surgery for Veterans. 
  • Group Versus Individual Physical Therapy for Veterans With Knee Osteoarthritis: Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Group physical therapy for veterans with knee osteoarthritis: study design and methodology. 
  • Identifying Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Advanced Fibrosis in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Impact of Implementation of the Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Within Veterans Health Administration Emergency Departments and Primary Care Clinics on Antibiotic Prescribing and Patient Outcomes. 
  • Impact of automated reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate in the veterans health administration. 
  • Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Implementation of an established algorithm and modifications for the identification of epilepsy patients in the veterans health administration. 
  • Implementing a Mandated Program Across a Regional Health Care System: A Rapid Qualitative Assessment to Evaluate Early Implementation Strategies. 
  • Improving Care Coordination Between Veterans Health Administration Primary Care Teams and Community Home Health Aide Providers: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Improving Oral Hygiene for Veterans With Dementia in Residential Long-term Care. 
  • In Reply to Gerard. 
  • Incorporating Geriatric Assessment into a Nephrology Clinic: Preliminary Data from Two Models of Care. 
  • Innovation in a Learning Health Care System: Veteran-Directed Home- and Community-Based Services. 
  • Integrating Medical Genetics Into Precision Oncology Practice in the Veterans Health Administration: The Time Is Now. 
  • Lessons from Initiating the First Veterans Health Administration (VA) Women's Health Practice-based Research Network (WH-PBRN) Study. 
  • Local Anesthesia is Associated with Fewer Complications in Umbilical Hernia Repair in Frail Veterans. 
  • Long-term Clinical Outcomes of Nonoperative Management With Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Making a difference in the health care of veterans: 9 things you should know. 
  • Merging Implementation Practice and Science to Scale Up Promising Practices: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Diffusion of Excellence (DoE) Program. 
  • Military Sexual Trauma and Adverse Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Comorbidity in Women Veterans. 
  • Moving Women Veterans' Health Research Forward: a Special Supplement. 
  • National Implementation of a Group-Based Program Promoting Patient Engagement and Peer Support in the Veterans Health Administration: A Multi-Methods Evaluation. 
  • National Veterans Health Administration MOVE! Weight Management Program Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Opportunities to Enhance Value-Related Research in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • Optimizing veteran-centered prostate cancer survivorship care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Outcome by Gender in the Veterans Health Administration Motivating Overweight/Obese Veterans Everywhere Weight Management Program. 
  • Patient and provider interventions for managing osteoarthritis in primary care: protocols for two randomized controlled trials. 
  • Patient-centered behavioral services for women veterans with mental health conditions. 
  • Phenome-wide association of 1809 phenotypes and COVID-19 disease progression in the Veterans Health Administration Million Veteran Program. 
  • Precision Medicine for CRC Patients in the Veteran Population: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Research Directions. 
  • Predictors of High-Intensity Psychiatric Service Utilization by Veterans Health Administration Patients With Early Psychosis. 
  • Protocol to evaluate an enterprise-wide initiative to increase access to lung cancer screening in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Racial disparities in cancer care in the Veterans Affairs health care system and the role of site of care. 
  • Racial disparities in the impact of chronic pruritus: A cross-sectional study on quality of life and resource utilization in United States veterans. 
  • Readiness for Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening. A National Survey of Veterans Affairs Pulmonologists. 
  • Real-World Utilization and Outcomes of the Veterans Health Administration's Smoking Cessation Text Message Program. 
  • Receipt and predictors of smoking cessation pharmacotherapy among veterans with and without HIV. 
  • Recognition of CKD after the introduction of automated reporting of estimated GFR in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Reconciling outcomes for Black men with prostate cancer within and outside the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Reflections on and future of hematologic malignancies research in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Reinforcement of an infection control bundle targeting prevention practices for Clostridioides difficile in Veterans Health Administration nursing homes. 
  • Resident involvement in cataract surgery at the Veterans Health Administration: complications, case complexity, and the role of experience. 
  • Risk factors for biopsy-proven advanced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Scheduled telephone visits in the veterans health administration patient-centered medical home. 
  • Self-Organization of Interprofessional Staff to Improve Mobility of Hospitalized Patients with STRIDE: a Complexity Science-Informed Qualitative Study. 
  • Setting the stage: Research to inform interventions, practice and policy to improve women veterans' health and health care. 
  • Sex Differences in Veterans' Cardiovascular Health. 
  • Spiritual Fitness for Military Veterans: A Curriculum Review and Impact Evaluation Using the Duke Religion Index (DUREL). 
  • Strategic planning to reduce the burden of stroke among veterans: using simulation modeling to inform decision making. 
  • Suicide risk following a new cancer diagnosis among Veterans in Veterans Health Administration care. 
  • Supporting teams to optimize function and independence in Veterans: a multi-study program and mixed methods protocol. 
  • Survival and Causes of Death Among Veterans With Lower Extremity Revascularization With Paclitaxel-Coated Devices: Insights From the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Systematic review of women veterans' mental health. 
  • The Association Between Toxic Exposures and Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Veterans of the Wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. 
  • The Quality of Peer-Reviewed Publications on Surgery for Early Stage Lung Cancer Within the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Innovators Network: Evaluation design, methods and lessons learned through an embedded research approach. 
  • The Veterans Health Administration Reproductive Mental Health Consultation Program: an Innovation to Improve Access to Specialty Care. 
  • Treating age-related macular degeneration: comparing the use of two drugs among medicare and veterans affairs populations. 
  • Trends in Chronic Opioid Use Around Inpatient Surgery Within the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Using NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology to measure the quality of colorectal cancer care in the veterans health administration. 
  • Utilization of complementary and integrative health services and opioid therapy by patients receiving Veterans Health Administration pain care. 
  • VA Cancer Research: A Legacy and A Future. 
  • Validating administratively derived frailty scores for use in Veterans Health Administration emergency departments. 
  • Validation of Veterans Affairs Electronic Medical Record Smoking Data Among Iraq- and Afghanistan-Era Veterans. 
  • Validation of a Health System Measure to Capture Intensive Medication Treatment of Hypertension in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Venous thromboembolism among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at Veterans Health Administration Hospitals. 
  • Veterans Health Administration Models of Community-Based Long-Term Care: State of the Science. 
  • Veterans Health Administration National TeleOncology Service. 
  • Veterans Health Administration nurses' training and beliefs related to care of patients with traumatic brain injury. 
  • Veterans health administration hepatitis B testing and treatment with anti-CD20 antibody administration. 
  • Veterans' Preferences for Receiving Information About VA Services: Is Getting the Information You Want Related to Increased Health Care Utilization? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Allen, Kelli Dominick, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Brancu, Mira, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Deans, Elizabeth Innes, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Community & Population Health
  • Gellad, Ziad F., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Hall, Katherine Shepherd, Associate Professor in Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics
  • 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
  • Nieuwsma, Jason A, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Van Voorhees, Elizabeth E., Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society
  • Zullig, Leah L, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine