The Department of Veterans Affairs health care system and national health care
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[Taking care of the sick veteran--mental health care within the Department of Veterans Affairs, USA].
The article describes the functioning of the system of mental health care for veterans in the U.S. on the example of the state of California. Two clinical cases illustrating the issue of mental health disorders in this population of patients have also been presented. Veterans as well as active duty soldiers and civilian employees of the military compose a group of patients suffering from mental...
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BACKGROUND Mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is declining worldwide. We sought to determine if mortality in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has also been declining. METHODS We calculated 30-day mortality rates between 2004 and 2006 using data from the VHA External Peer Review Program (EPRP), which entails detailed abstraction of records of all patients with AMI. To com...
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OBJECTIVES As access of women to mental health services has become increasingly important, empirical research has begun to examine the determinants of mental health care utilization across gender. This article examines the effect of being an extreme minority on utilization of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health services by female veterans. METHODS Data were collected on a representativ...
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The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) operates the largest integrated health care system in the world (VA, 1989), with designated departments and programs designed to meet the long-term care needs of the aging veteran. Occupational therapy is an important intervention to maximize the quality of life of older persons. Because of the increasing number of aging veterans and the national shortage ...
متن کاملIntensive care unit admitting patterns in the Veterans Affairs health care system.
BACKGROUND Critical care resource use accounts for almost 1% of US gross domestic product and varies widely among hospitals. However, we know little about the initial decision to admit a patient to the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS To describe hospital ICU admitting patterns for medical patients after accounting for severity of illness on admission, we performed a retrospective cohort st...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199112000-00006