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 …

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 …

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. We quantified older (65 years and older) Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
patients' use of the private sector to obtain 14 surgical procedures and assessed the …

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 …

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 …

Background Initiatives to reduce hospital care were part of the reorganization of the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical care system undertaken in the mid-1990s. We …

That veterans aged 65 years and older are eligible to receive care either in the Veteran
Affairs (VA) health care system or in the private sector under Medicare confounds the …