We wanted to determine what factors were associated with rural veterans' use of Department
of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities over the private sector for coronary artery bypass grafting …

Objective: We sought to quantify Veterans Health Administration (VA) patients' utilization of
coronary revascularization in the private sector and to assess the potential impact of …

Little is known about the quality of care that veterans obtain in the private sector. To explore
this issue, we identified the hospital in which 4,008 veterans enrolled in the Veterans …

Context: In the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), regionalization of high‐technology
health care services may influence veterans who live far from referral centers to obtain care …

OBJECTIVE: To examine Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Medicare hospitalizations
for elderly veterans with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), their use of cardiac procedures in …

Objective. A limitation of studies comparing outcomes of Veterans Affairs (VA) and private
sector hospitals is uncertainty about the methods of accounting for risk factors in VA …

Objective. To determine whether patients' use of the Veterans Health Administration health
care system (VHA) is an independent risk factor for mortality following coronary artery …

Objectives. Some of the nation's 26 million veterans have two government-financed health
care entitlements: Medicare and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The aims of this …

Objectives. To determine whether older Veterans Health Administration (VA) health care
enrollees obtain most high‐risk surgeries in non‐VA hospitals under Medicare, whether …

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