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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Where minorities receive their care may contribute to disparities in care, yet, the racial
concentration of care in the Veterans Health Administration is largely unknown. We sought …

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 …

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: Previous studies have documented substantial differences by patient
race/ethnicity and insurance in the use of high-volume surgical providers. The extent to …