| Number |
Primary Author |
Abstract Title |
| 183 |
Adams |
Determinants of Technology-related Decisions Among VISN Clinical Managers |
| 191 |
Aguayo |
Education-enhanced Rehabilitation for Homeless Veterans in Atlanta: Early Results |
| 84 |
Arozullah |
Variation among VA Hospitals in Risk-Adjusted Pulmonary Complication Rates following Major Noncardiac Surgery |
| 88 |
Asch |
Development and Testing of a Clinically-Detailed System to Assess Quality of Care in Hypertension |
| 184 |
Asch |
Developing an Illustrated Patient Satisfaction Evaluation Tool for Low Literacy Veterans |
| 6 |
Au |
The Risk of Myocardial Ischemic Events Associated with Inhaled Beta-adrenoceptor Agonists |
| 232 |
Bach |
Rehabilitation Issues of Concern to Women with Spinal Cord Injuries |
| 64 |
Barnett |
Cost-Effectiveness of Conservative Management of Non Q-wave Myocardial Infarction |
| 51 |
Bauer |
Clinical Outcome, Functional Outcome, and Health Care Costs in Manic-Depressive Disorder: How Closely Related? |
| 225 |
Bauer |
Principles of Effectiveness Trials: A Proposal and Implementation Examples from Cooperative Study #430 |
| 61 |
Bennett |
A Pilot Study of Shared Decision Making for Prostate Cancer Patients of Low Socioeconomic Status |
| 91 |
Bennett |
Variations in the Management and Outcome of Patients with AIDS-Related Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP) in New York versus Other U.S. Cities: 1995-1997 |
| 197 |
Bent |
Herbal Medicine in the United States: A Systematic Review of the Quantity and Quality of Information Available to Health Care Providers |
| 13 |
Berlowitz |
Improving Nursing Home Care: Importance of Organizational Culture and Continuous Quality Improvement Implementation |
| 92 |
Bittner |
Time Spent by Interns with Hospitalized Patients: Association with Physician Characteristics, Patient Length of Stay, and Patient Satisfaction |
| 174 |
Bittner |
Association of Intern Workload with Length of Stay and with Patient Satisfaction |
| 93 |
Bokhour |
Men’s Perceptions of the Outcomes of Early Prostate Cancer: Identifying the Domains of Quality of Life |
| 56 |
Borowsky |
Effect of Community-Based Outpatient Clinic Care on Patient Satisfaction and Health Status: A Randomized Trial |
| 229 |
Bosworth |
Qualitative Analysis of Quality of Life among Congestive Heart Patients |
| 247 |
Bosworth |
The Relationship Between Self-rated Health and Health Care Services Among Women Veterans in a Primary Care Clinic |
| 94 |
Bradley |
Diabetes Nurse Specialists and a Computerized Patient Tracking System Improve Guideline Adherence |
| 95 |
Bradley |
Binge Drinking Among Female VA Patients |
| 165 |
Bradley |
A Multidisciplinary Approach with Sexual Trauma Survivors |
| 86 |
Brazill |
Examining the Effectiveness of Academic Detailing in the Implementation of VA Hypertension (HTN) Clinical Practice Guidelines |
| 50 |
Breckenridge |
A Psychiatric Diagnoses-Based Case Mix System for Mental Healthcare Utilization Data |
| 217 |
Buffum |
Pain Management and Behavioral Outcomes in Patients with Dementia |
| 259 |
Burke |
Utilization of VISTA Databases to Assess Outcomes of Care Provided Patients with Diabetes |
| 142 |
Burks |
Older Adults with Osteoarthritis: Pain and Disability |
| 73 |
Burman |
Determinants of Alcohol Advice or Treatment among At-Risk Drinkers in the Outpatient Setting. Results from the ACQUIP Study |
| 195 |
Butterfield |
Gender Differences in HIV, HBV, HCV and Associated Risks in Severely Mentally Ill Persons |
| 15 |
Byrne |
Effect of Primary Care Service Lines on Patient Outcomes |
| 53 |
Calhoun |
The Relationship between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Severity and Health Service Utilization |
| 96 |
Cannella |
The Cost of Healthcare for Homeless Veterans at the Atlanta VA Medical Center |
| 156 |
Chaney |
Approaches to Guidelines Implementation: Primary Care Depression Treatment |
| 179 |
Chaney |
Comparing Depression Screening Methods in Primary Care |
| 80 |
Chang |
Incorporating Missing Data Information in Modeling Facility Case-Mix Adjusted Decline Rates in Functional Status |
| 38 |
Chapko |
Evaluating VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) Using VA Databases |
| 39 |
Charns |
Using Multiple Methods to Study Complex Organizational Phenomena: The Service Line Evaluation Project |
| 151 |
Christiansen |
Bayesian and Hierarchical Models for Assessing Health Care Quality: What are they? Why are they needed? How are they used? |
| 44 |
Chun |
Gender and Comorbid Psychiatric and Medical Diagnoses Among VA Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders: Association with Substance Use, Psychosocial Functioning, and Service Use |
| 212 |
Ciesco |
Monitoring and Assessing the Relationship Between Veteran Enrollment and VA Healthcare and Quality |
| 219 |
Cody |
Perception of Barriers to Providing Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care in Community Based Outpatient Clinics |
| 199 |
Collins |
How Patients Perceive Physician Communication Regarding Cardiac Testing |
| 43 |
Conigliaro |
Differences in the Duration of Symptoms and Delay in Presentation for Cardiac Care by Race Age and Site of Care |
| 76 |
Conigliaro |
Primary Care Providers and Their Patients Who Drink Alcohol: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice |
| 143 |
Copeland |
Use of Depot Antipsychotic Medication in Seriously Ill Schizophrenic Patients |
| 177 |
Cordi |
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Healthcare Costs for Veterans at the Atlanta VA Medical Center |
| 180 |
Cordi |
Costs of Healthcare for Women Veterans in Atlanta: a Look at Gender Differences |
| 228 |
Cornell |
Publication Bias: Can we measure it? |
| 194 |
Covinsky |
Functional Status Prior to Hospitalization in Acutely Ill Elders: Validity and Clinical Importance of Retrospective Reports |
| 182 |
Curran |
Depressive Symptoms and Relapse to Substance Use |
| 97 |
Davis |
Screening for Problem Drinking among Female VA Patients Using the TWEAK |
| 98 |
Davis |
Evaluating Competing Algorithms for Identifying VA Diabetics Using Computerized Medical Information System Data |
| 233 |
Davis |
Relationship of Organizational Culture, Absenteeism, Turnover and Selected Social Characteristics of Hospital-Based Nursing Personnel |
| 261 |
Dawson |
VA Cooperative Study #430: "Reducing the Efficacy-Effectiveness Gap in Bipolar Disorder" |
| 48 |
Desai |
Utilization Patterns of Dually-Eligible (VA and Medicare) Veterans by Age |
| 175 |
Desai |
Bed Closures and Incarceration among VA Mental Health Service Users in Upstate New York |
| 144 |
Dhillon |
Determining Screening Classification of PSA Tests and Digital Rectal Exams: Developing an Algorithm to Differentiate Screening and Diagnostic Tests |
| 31 |
Dresselhaus |
Measuring Compliance with Preventive Care Guidelines: A Comparison of Standardized Patients, Clinical Vignettes and the Medical Record |
| 99 |
Dubbert |
Effects of Nurse Counseling for Primary Care Patients: Adherence to a Home-Based Walking Program |
| 214 |
Dubbert |
Nurse Exercise Counseling for Primary Care Patients: Physical Activity and Fitness Changes After 6 Months |
| 171 |
Duffy |
An Innovative Model (GIFT -Geriatric Interdisciplinary Faculty Training) for Formal CQK/TQM Training in Long Term Care |
| 230 |
Duffy |
Quality of Life, Smoking, Alcohol, and Depression in Veterans with Head/Neck Cancer: A Pilot Study |
| 100 |
Duncan |
Performance of the Mail Administered Stroke Impact Scale Compared to Conventional Measurements of Stroke Outcomes |
| 55 |
Edelman |
Clinical Significance of Undiagnosed Diabetes among VA Medical Center Outpatients |
| 101 |
Edelman |
Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Undiagnosed Diabetes among VA Medical Center Outpatients |
| 102 |
Engelhardt |
A Follow-up Investigation of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of GEM Care |
| 103 |
Evans |
Evaluating Screening Criteria for Adverse Outcomes in Primary Care |
| 213 |
Evans |
Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation vs Medical Care: using Meta-analysis to Determine the Clinical Effectiveness of Physical Medicine |
| 70 |
Fan |
Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality In-Patients with Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: The Impact of Quality of Life |
| 145 |
Felker |
The Impact of Depressive Symptoms on Health Status in Patients with Chronic Pulmonary Disease |
| 264 |
Fig |
Voice Recognition Dictation System reduces Report Turnaround Time |
| 104 |
Fink |
Sildenafil for Male Erectile Dysfunction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis |
| 186 |
Fink |
Disability after Fracture in Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Women: the Fracture Intervention Trial |
| 216 |
Fischer |
Outcome and Treatment Preferences in Schizophrenia: Do Stakeholders Share Goals? |
| 71 |
Fong |
Functional Status in Veterans after Discharge for Acute Myocardial Infarction versus Unstable Angina Pectoris |
| 200 |
Fortier |
Impact of Filing a PTSD Disabilty Claim on Gulf War Veterans’ VA Outpatient Health Care Utilzation |
| 152 |
Foulis |
Data Mining using VISTA for Decision Making and Quality Improvement |
| 203 |
Foulis |
Improvement in Diabetic outcomes with the Implementation of a Proficiency Testing Program |
| 206 |
Foy |
Joint VHA/VBA Project to Reengineer Organizational Process of Providing C & P Examinations |
| 105 |
Gardner |
A Nurse Managed Chronic Wound Telehealth Clinic |
| 251 |
Gardner |
The Validity of the Clinical Signs and Symptoms Used to Identify Localized Chronic Wound Infection |
| 252 |
Gardner |
Third-Party Insurance and Length of Acute Care Inpatient Stays At VA Hospitals |
| 106 |
Garshick |
Predictors of Pulmonary Function in Spinal Cord Injury |
| 162 |
Garvey |
Smoking Cessation Patterns Across 35 Years of Follow-up in the Normative Aging Study |
| 246 |
Gerdner |
The Effects of Individualized vs. Classical "Relaxation" Music on the Frequency of Agitation in Elderly Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders |
| 245 |
Goldberg |
The Effect of a Narcotics Management System on Narcotics Prescribing and Unscheduled Visits in a Large Veterans Primary Care Clinic |
| 85 |
Goldstein |
Impact of Hypertension Guideline Implementation on Patients’ Blood Pressure |
| 69 |
Good |
Diabetes Costs and Control in Several VISN 4 Facilities: There is a difference |
| 45 |
Gordon |
Variation in the Process of Care for Black and White Patients in Veterans Hospitals |
| 107 |
Gordon |
Racial Variation in Cancer Patients' Health Seeking Behaviors and Acceptance of Care |
| 146 |
Gould |
A Comparison of Methods for Summarizing Studies of Diagnostic Test Performance |
| 49 |
Gralnek |
Liver Transplantation Recipients in the United States in the 1990s: A Comparative Analysis With the U.S. Liver Donor Population |
| 74 |
Gralnek |
The Impact of Chronic Liver Disease on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) |
| 108 |
Grossman |
Medical Illness Predicts Psychiatric Service Utilization and Cost for Elderly Patients with Bipolar Disorder |
| 109 |
Guihan |
VA vs. Private Sector Mergers of Academic Medical Centers: Who's More Successful At Integration? |
| 260 |
Guihan |
VA Chicago Health Care System Integration Evaluation |
| 110 |
Hagan |
Pain Management and Control of Effects of Treatment in Hospitalized Veteran Patients with Cancer |
| 111 |
Hankin |
Patient Characteristics Associated with Provider Practices for Psychotropic Care |
| 204 |
Hasenberg |
Increasing Depression Treatment Adherence in Primary Care: Patient Treatment Preference |
| 28 |
Hendricks |
HEDIS 3.0 Performance Measures in VA |
| 223 |
Herndon |
Prevalence and Predictors of HIV Testing among Homeless Women - Good News |
| 112 |
Hickam |
Perceptions of the Quality of VA Medical Services among Gulf War-era Veterans |
| 113 |
Hofer |
Have Deaths Due to Medical Errors Been Overestimated? |
| 193 |
Hoffman |
Epidemiology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in United States Veterans |
| 52 |
Hounshell |
Tuberculosis (TB) Prevention Measures among US Hospitals with versus without Prior Nosocomial TB Outbreaks (1995-1997) |
| 209 |
Huizenga |
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery is Associated with Improvements in Health-related Quality of Life |
| 255 |
Hurley |
Uncovering the Stress Response to Bathing in Veterans with Dementia. |
| 35 |
Hynes |
Assessing Health Care Quality Using theVA Decision Support System (dSs): The Future Is Now |
| 114 |
Ibrahim |
Health-related Attitudes/Beliefs among Elderly, African-American and White Veterans with Chronic Knee and/or Hip Pain |
| 220 |
Ibrahim |
Perceptions of Access to VA and non-VA Medical Care among Elderly African-American and White Veterans with Chronic Knee and Hip Pain |
| 221 |
Ibrahim |
Perceptions of Global Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Knee or Hip Pain: Differences between African-American and White Veterans |
| 196 |
Jacobs |
Gender Differences in Satisfaction with Participation in Decision Making |
| 240 |
Johnson |
The Association of Illness Trajectory with Hospital Mortality: An Example of Longitudinal Logistic Regression |
| 33 |
Jones |
Cervical Cancer Screening in the Department of Veterans Affairs |
| 244 |
Jones |
The D-E-N-T-A-L Identifies Veterans in need of Dental Care |
| 210 |
Joseph |
Marketing Smoking Cessation: is a Free Patch as Good as Free Soap? |
| 253 |
Joseph |
Timing of Alcohol and Smoking Cessation Study: Screenees’ Attitudes Toward Participating in a Clinical Trial |
| 192 |
Kaur |
Effects of Interactive Demonstration of Exercise Among Arthritics |
| 147 |
Kemppainen |
Barriers and Facilitators to HAART Therapies |
| 8 |
Kilbourne |
Further Validation of an HIV Symptom Index: Symptoms among Depressed and Non-depressed HIV+ Veterans |
| 227 |
Kinnon |
Proposal to Create a Telephone Monitoring Follow up System for Home Bound, Aide and Attendance, Fee Basis or Other Eligible Patients on Warfarin Therapy |
| 54 |
Kirchner |
Comorbid Lifetime Alcohol Use Disorders and Depressive Disorders in a Community Population |
| 115 |
Klaw |
Moderation Management: An Alternative to AA for Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders |
| 231 |
Knight |
Racial Differences in Quality of Life among Veterans with Localized Prostate Cancer |
| 29 |
Krein |
Examining Variation at Provider, Team and Facility Level for Performance Indicators Related to Diabetes Care |
| 41 |
Kressin |
Challenges in Conducting Research on Racial Variations in Health Care |
| 242 |
Langa |
The Cost of Family Caregiving for the Elderly with Dementia: New Estimates from a Nationally Representative Sample |
| 168 |
Laughlin |
Impact of HSR&D Development Grant in VISN 8 |
| 265 |
Lawrence |
Health-related Quality of Life after Major Abdominal Surgery in Elders |
| 266 |
Lawrence |
Medical Complications after Hip Fracture Repair: Incidence and Outcomes in 8930 Patients |
| 267 |
Lawrence |
Functional Recovery after Major Abdominal Surgery in Elders |
| 5 |
Lee |
Duration of Survival for Disseminated Malignant Melanoma: Results of a Meta-Analysis |
| 257 |
Lee |
Use of Clustering and Weighting Techniques in a Complex Survey of HIV Testing in Homeless Women |
| 116 |
Legro |
Use of Focus Groups to Identify Knowledge Gaps about Care for Spinal Cord Injured Veterans |
| 37 |
Lenert |
Development of Computer Instruments for Measurement of Patients’ Preferences |
| 63 |
Liu |
The Effect of Preoperative Risk Factors on Hospital Departmental Costs of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery |
| 83 |
Liu |
Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Non-Elderly Veterans |
| 117 |
Liu |
Time Costs in Integrated Care for Depression Treatment in Primary Care |
| 256 |
Llorente |
UPBEAT: Utilization, Cost and Consumer Satisfaction |
| 189 |
Lorenz |
Do For-Profit Hospice Patients Have Longer, Less Complex Stays? |
| 118 |
Loveland |
Comparing the Performance of Two Diagnosis-Based Case-Mix Measures in the VA |
| 30 |
Luck |
Does Getting the History and Physical Right Lead to Better Treatment Decisions? Using Standardized Patients to Link Process to Medical Interventions |
| 11 |
Lukas |
Measuring Healthcare System Integration |
| 12 |
Lukas |
The Structure and Effectiveness of Facility Integration |
| 119 |
Luther |
Impact of Dropout Rates on Effect Size in Randomized Controlled Trials |
| 120 |
Maddox |
Characteristics and Perceptions of Spouse Caregivers of Dementia Patients |
| 2 |
Mansell |
Quality of Life in Ambulatory Veterans with Alcohol Disorders: Does Abstinence Matter? |
| 248 |
Mansell |
The Roles of the Family and Physician in Patient Decision Making about Serious Illness |
| 181 |
Mayfield |
Department of Veterans Affairs Spinal Cord Injury Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (SCI QUERI) |
| 72 |
McDonell |
Quality of Life and 5-Year Mortality among Veterans with Coronary Artery Disease: Results from the Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement Project (ACQUIP) Pilot Study |
| 262 |
McGuire |
VA Hospital-Hotel (Hoptel) Equalizes Inpatient Length of Stay Among Homeless and Domiciled Patients |
| 239 |
McKinley |
Systematizing Intensive Care Unit Surveillance within a VA Healthcare Network |
| 201 |
Meier |
Iplementation of VA Guidelines for Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose (SMBG): Effect on Glucose Control and Pharmacy Costs |
| 121 |
Mencke |
Application of HEDIS Measures within a Veterans Affairs Medical Center |
| 26 |
Menke |
Utilization and Outcomes for Episodes of Care |
| 14 |
Meterko |
Effect of Primary Care Service Lines on Patient Satisfaction |
| 215 |
Mills |
Organizational Characteristics Contributing to Successful Outcome in a Multi-Hospitial Collaborative Safety Improvement Project |
| 16 |
Mitchinson |
A Qualitative Study of Mental Health Providers Attitudes toward Quality Indicators |
| 148 |
Mohler |
Adherence of HIV+ Patients to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) |
| 211 |
Morgan |
Medicare HMO Enrollment among VA Health Service Users and Non-users |
| 234 |
Mulrow |
Smart Search: A Quick Easy Method for Searching Medical Evidence |
| 190 |
Musson |
Dysphagia Intervention: A Model Qualtiy Improvement Program |
| 166 |
Nelson |
A National Program Initiative to Evaluate Spinal Cord Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines |
| 258 |
Neugaard |
Using Teleform® Software Application to Design and Conduct Automated Data Entry of Self-administered Questionnaires for Health Services Research in the VA |
| 10 |
Noel |
Veterans' Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes |
| 154 |
Nugent |
Estimating VA Health Care Costs |
| 224 |
Olsen |
Primary Care: Comparison of Geriatric Mental Health Delivery System |
| 155 |
Ortiz |
Evidence-Based Healthcare |
| 208 |
Ortiz |
Low Incidence of Unsuspected Anaerobic Bacteremia: Are Routine Anaerobic Blood Cultures Still Indicated? |
| 32 |
Palumbo |
Does Early Cognitive Impairment Have an Impact on Healthcare Utilization in Geriatric Outpatients? |
| 149 |
Pape |
The Measurement of Brain Functioning in Low Level Neurological States |
| 170 |
Parada |
African Americans with HIV-related Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia Receive Better Care than Whites and Survive More Often |
| 150 |
Parker |
Service Line Activity in VHA Facilities: the Development and Measurement of a Service Line Construct |
| 157 |
Parker |
Using Qualitative Methods in Health Services Research: Describing and Understanding Health Care |
| 263 |
Parker |
Visions of Integration: Multiple Approaches to Structuring VISNs |
| 122 |
Partin |
Do Veterans Want to Participate in Medical Decisions? |
| 62 |
Pearlman |
Positive Results of a Comprehensive Advance Care Planning Intervention |
| 82 |
Peck |
The Nature and Prevalence of Patient Expectations in a VA General Medicine Clinic |
| 87 |
Petersen |
Comorbidity, Severity, and Outcome of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction in VHA Compared with Medicare |
| 123 |
Petersen |
The Accuracy of Coding Chronic Heart Failure in the VA Outpatient Clinic File |
| 124 |
Petersen |
Comparison of Risk Adjustment Methods for Captivated Payments in VHA |
| 58 |
Piette |
Do Automated Calls with Nurse Follow-up Improve Self-Care and Glycemic Control among VA Patients with Diabetes? Results of a Randomized, Controlled Trial |
| 21 |
Quach |
Adherence to the PORT Study Prediction Rule and Its Impact on Outcomes and Resource Utilization |
| 164 |
Quach |
A Method to Estimate Prescription Status Using a VA Pharmaceutical Administrative Database |
| 222 |
Rakovski |
Predicting Change in Functional Status in VA Long Term Care: Do Robust Estimates Improve Prediction? |
| 169 |
Reker |
Accuracy of ICD_9-CM Codes in Identifying Stroke Patients |
| 218 |
Ren |
Patient Ratings of Satisfaction with Health Care: a Study of Veterans Served by VA Primary and Eye Care Clinics |
| 22 |
Render |
Automated Intensive Care Unit Severity Adjustment |
| 40 |
Render |
Methodology for Investigating and Improving Patient Safety |
| 235 |
Rosansky |
Social Isolation Increases Risk of Re-Hospitalization |
| 126 |
Roselle |
National Hepatitis C Surveillance Day in the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) |
| 20 |
Rosen |
Concordance of PTSD Treatment Practices with Emerging Practice Guidelines |
| 27 |
Rosen |
How Well Do ACGs Characterize the Disease Burden of the VA Population? |
| 125 |
Rosenfeld |
Conceptualizing Spiritual Well-Being: A Focus Group Study of Older Adults with Chronic Illness |
| 237 |
Rosenfeld |
Spiritual Well-Being in Older Individuals with Chronic Illness: Development of a Spiritual Function Scale |
| 67 |
Rosenheck |
A Novel Approach to the Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness Data in Psychiatric Clinical Trials: Cost-Effectiveness Acceptability Curves |
| 127 |
Rothendler |
HEDIS 3.0 Cardiac Procedure Rates in the VA: Variation Among VISNs and Effect of Accounting for Non-VA Care on Overall Measures |
| 160 |
Rothendler |
Provider Profiling: An Example of Inconsistent Results When Using Aggregated Patient-level Data |
| 9 |
Rubins |
Treatment of Cholesterol in the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: How well are we doing? |
| 57 |
Ruskin |
Efficiacy of Telepsychiatry in the Treatment of Depression |
| 23 |
Saint |
Physician Unawareness of Urinary Catheters in their Patients: if you don't ask, they won't tell |
| 207 |
Saint |
Journal Reading Habits of Internists |
| 128 |
Sales |
Cholesterol Screening for Primary Prevention: An Effect of Computerized Reminders? |
| 198 |
Sales |
How do we connect? Congruence between Perceptions of Coordination Mechanisms in Cardiology |
| 129 |
Salgado |
General Life Adjustment in a National Sample of Vietnam Veterans |
| 205 |
Sanders |
Influence of Organizational Change on Learning Needs of VA Employees for the New Millennium |
| 130 |
Selim |
Racial Differences In Use of Lumbar Spine Radiographs: Results from the Veterans Health Study |
| 65 |
Sernyak |
Clozapine Prescription and Long-term Inpatient Service Utilization |
| 60 |
Shekelle |
Interventions that Increase use of Adult Immunization and Cancer Screening Services: a Meta-analysis of 218 Controlled Trials |
| 81 |
Shen |
Severity of Acute Inpatients and Length of Stay in VA |
| 36 |
Sherman |
Lessons Learned from the Initial Conduct of a Multi-site Trial; or are you sure you want to be doing this? |
| 46 |
Shlipak |
The Effect of Race on Survival of Men Hospitalized in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System |
| 202 |
Slimack |
Improved Sexual Function Following Castration in Lower SES Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients: Can it be Real? |
| 77 |
Sloan |
Comparing VA to the Group Health Population on the Chronic Disease Score Categories |
| 90 |
Sloan |
Secondary Prevention of Ischemic Heart Disease – Guideline Concordance |
| 241 |
Sloan |
The Chronic Disease Score and Pharmacy-Based Risk Adjusters – Recommendations for Replicability |
| 131 |
Smith |
Contacting and Enrolling VA Physicians in Research: Role of Gender and Specialty Status |
| 167 |
Souchek |
A Randomized Trial to Compare Methods of Eliciting Utility Measures for Cost Utility Analyses |
| 163 |
Spar |
A Conceptual Model of Clinical Structure |
| 89 |
Spertus |
Health Status and 2-year Outcomes among Veterans with Coronary Artery Disease: Results from the Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement Project (ACQUIP) |
| 132 |
Spiro |
Prevalence of PTSD Among VA Ambulatory Care Patients |
| 226 |
Steinhauser |
Assessing the Attributes of the Quality of Dying: Perspectives of Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers |
| 236 |
Stine |
Spiritual Experience and Advanced Directives |
| 34 |
Swarztrauber |
Physician Referral Choices in the Management of Patients with Neurological Conditions |
| 133 |
Swindle |
Can Integrating Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialists into VA Primary Care Clinics Improve the 3-month Outcomes of Patients with Depression? A Randomized Controlled Trial |
| 59 |
Timko |
Demand Characteristics of Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs |
| 134 |
Udris |
A Case Finding Tool to Identify General Internal Medicine Patients with Congestive Heart Failure using VISTA Pharmacy Data. |
| 18 |
Valenstein |
Conformance to PORT Guidelines for Conventional Antipsychotics in Severely Ill Schizophrenic Veterans: Opportunities for Improvement |
| 161 |
Van Ryn |
An Examination of Factors Associated with Physician Treatment Recommendation for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery |
| 135 |
Villa |
Health and Functioning among Four Eras of Veterans: Examining the Impact of Social and Economic Determinants |
| 254 |
Vogt |
Toward Gender-Aware VA Health Care: Year 2 Findings |
| 25 |
Volicer |
Tools for Evaluation of End-of-Life Care in Dementia |
| 173 |
Vrtunski |
Assessment of Spirituality in Drug Addiction |
| 250 |
Wagner |
The Use and Effects of Consumer Health Information Following a City-wide Informational Intervention |
| 79 |
Wakefield |
Telemedicine Clinics: Successes and Failures |
| 136 |
Wang |
Diagnostic and Patient-Centered Approaches in Assessing Case-Mix: How Are They Correlated? |
| 7 |
Washington |
Risk Factors for Hospitalization in Veterans with Abdominal Pain |
| 47 |
Washington |
Minority Veterans' Perceptions of VA Healthcare: A View Toward Improvement |
| 24 |
Weaver |
Total Joint Replacement Outcomes for Men and Women Treated at VA Hospitals: Result from a National Study |
| 176 |
Weaver |
Characteristics and Outcomes of Women Undergoing Hysterectomies in VA Facilities |
| 137 |
Weingardt |
Brief Screening for Anxiety, Depression and Substance Abuse in Spinal Cord Injury |
| 238 |
Wells |
Staff Member Integration within Psychiatric Interdisciplinary Treatment Teams |
| 1 |
Weng |
Interest in Chemoprevention for Breast Cancer |
| 68 |
West |
Donepezil Use and Impact on Utilization and Cost among Patients with Alzheimer's Disease |
| 158 |
West |
Use of Diagnostic Cost Groups to Predict Resource Use by VHA Patients |
| 138 |
Whittle |
What is Important to Patients Deciding Whether to Undergo Coronary Revascularization |
| 188 |
Whittle |
Do Doctors and Patients Agree on the Benefits of Coronary Revascularization? |
| 3 |
Whooley |
Depressed Mood, Income Loss and Unemployment: The Cardia Study |
| 139 |
Williams |
The Relationship Between Post-Stroke Depression and Quality of Life in Veterans with Stroke |
| 4 |
Wilt |
Mailed Information Improves Knowledge About Early Detection and Treatment of Prostate Cancer |
| 140 |
Wilt |
Diagnosing and Treating Chronic A Bacterial Prostatitis: A Systematic Review of the Literature |
| 178 |
Wilt |
Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Preferences of Veterans with Prostate Cancer |
| 187 |
Winterbottom |
Do Clinicians and Non-clinicians Agree on Proposals to Reduce the Costs of Care? |
| 185 |
Wray |
Development of Outcome Measures for Evaluating an Organizational Intervention |
| 78 |
Wright |
Medicare Enrollment Status among VA Users by VISN |
| 159 |
Wright |
Enrollment in the Medicare Program among Veterans Turning Age 65 |
| 66 |
Wristers |
Validity of Standard Gamble, Time Trade-off, and Rating Scale Methods of Utility Assessment for Prostate Cancer Health States |
| 153 |
Wristers |
Longitudinal Data Analysis Techniques |
| 249 |
Wristers |
The Unreliability of Single-Item Scales: Implications for Health Services Research |
| 17 |
Young |
The Quality of Care for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in the United States |
| 19 |
Young |
Patient, Provider and Treatment Factors Associated with Poor Quality Care for Schizophrenia |
| 42 |
Young |
Racial Differences in Satisfaction, Quality of Life and Mortality in Veterans with Diabetes: The Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement Project (ACQUIP) |
| 75 |
Young |
Prevalence of Diabetic Nephropathy in the Veterans Administration Health Care System |
| 172 |
Yu |
Are Veterans Willing to Pay for Lifestyle Medications? |
| 243 |
Zeber |
The Cost-utility of Screening for Depression in Primary Care |
| 141 |
Zemencuk |
Information-Seeking Behaviors and Knowledge of Surgical Treatment Choices in a Population-Based Sample of Breast Cancer Patients |
