Objective.—To examine whether blacks admitted to Veterans Affairs Medical Centers
(VAMCs) with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are less likely than whites to undergo …

Background The Veterans Affairs (VA) health system has been criticized for being inefficient
based on comparisons of VA care with non-VA care. Whether such comparisons are biased …

Objectives: We examined the impact of access to care characteristics on health care use
patterns among those veterans dually eligible for Medicare and Veterans Affairs (VA) …

Importance More than 1 million US veterans are dually enrolled in a Medicare Advantage
(MA) plan and in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system. The federal government …

Background: The 2014 Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act was intended to
improve Veterans' access to timely health care by expanding their options to receive …

Background Some have the opinion that patients cared for in Veterans Health Administration
(VHA) hospitals receive care of poorer quality than those cared for in non-VHA institutions …

Background: Recent studies have reported that health care provided by the Veterans Health
Administration (VHA) is at least as good as that provided in the private sector (1–4). These …

Despite an overall decline in the US veteran population, the number of veterans using VA
health care has increased. To deliver timely care to as many eligible veterans as possible …

In the late 1990s, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) initiated a system of community-
based outpatient clinics to enhance access to care. The purpose of this study was to explore …

Objective.—To compare overall rates of coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) in several
Canadian and US jurisdictions and to compare use by age and income groups in the two …