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Leung LB, Rubenstein LV, Jaske E, Wheat CL, Nelson KM, Felker BL. Contrasting Care Delivery Modalities Used by Primary Care and Mental Health Specialties in VA's Telehealth Contingency Staffing Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of general internal medicine. 2022 Apr 19. [Lucinda B Leung, MD, MPH, PhD]
Soegaard Ballester JM, Han JJ, Yong CM. Addressing Functional Biases in Procedural Environments. Annals of surgery. 2022 Mar 1; 275(3):e544-e546. [Celina M. Yong, MD, MBA, MSc]
Essien UR, Dusetzina SB, Gellad WF. Reducing Health Disparities Through Achieving Pharmacoequity-Reply. JAMA. 2022 Feb 8; 327(6):590. [Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH]
Essien UR, Youmans QR. Burning in "Other Suns": The Effects of Residential Segregation on Cardiovascular Health. [Editorial]. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2022 Feb 2; CIRCOUTCOMES121008694. [Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH]
Christofferson DE, Blalock DV, Knoeppel J, Beckham JC, Hamlett-Berry K, Hertzberg JS. A Real-World Evaluation of a Smokeless Tobacco Cessation Text Message Program for Veterans: Outcomes and Comparison to Cigarette Smokers. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 2022 Feb 1; 24(2):186-195. [Daniel Blalock, PhD]
Yaxley J, Campbell SB, Gray NA, Viecelli AK. Survey study of trends in adult nephrology advanced training in Australia and New Zealand. Internal Medicine Journal. 2022 Feb 1; 52(2):206-213. [Sarah B Campbell, PhD]
Pro G, Hayes C, Brown CC, Goree J, Zaller N. Individual and Health Policy Factors Associated With Positive Heroin and Opioid Treatment Response: United States, 2018. American journal of public health. 2022 Feb 1; 112(S1):S66-S76. [Corey J Hayes, PhD, PharmD]
Cross SH, Ramkalawan JR, Ring JF, Boucher NA. "That Little Bit of Time": Transition-to-Hospice Perspectives From Hospice Staff and Bereaved Family. Innovation in aging. 2022 Jan 18; 6(1):igab057. [Nathan A Boucher, DrPH]
Breland JY, Stanton MV. Anti-Black racism and behavioral medicine: confronting the past to envision the future. Translational behavioral medicine. 2022 Jan 18; 12(1). [Jessica Yelena Breland, PhD, MS, BA]
Poleshuck E, Possemato K, Johnson EM, Cohen AJ, Fogarty CT, Funderburk JS. Leveraging Integrated Primary Care to Address Patients' and Families' Unmet Social Needs: Aligning Practice with National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Recommendations. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM. 2022 Jan 1; 35(1):185-189. [Alicia J Cohen, MD, MSc]
Vyas DA, James A, Kormos W, Essien UR. Revising the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease calculator without race. The Lancet. Digital health. 2022 Jan 1; 4(1):e4-e5. [Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH]
Hayes CJ, Krebs EE, Brown J, Li C, Hudson T, Martin BC. Impact of transitioning from long-term to intermittent opioid therapy on the development of opioid-related adverse outcomes: A retrospective cohort study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2022 Feb 1; 231:109236. [Corey J Hayes, PhD, PharmD]
Gray KE, Hoerster KD, Taylor L, Krieger J, Nelson KM. Improvements in physical activity and some dietary behaviors in a community health worker-led diabetes self-management intervention for adults with low incomes: results from a randomized controlled trial. Translational behavioral medicine. 2021 Dec 14; 11(12):2144-2154. [Kristen E. Gray, PhD, MS, BS]
Keddem S, Dichter ME, Hamilton AB, Chhatre S, Sonalkar S. Awareness of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Among People at Risk for HIV: Results From the 2017-2019 National Survey of Family Growth. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2021 Dec 1; 48(12):967-972. [Shimrit Keddem, PhD, MPH]
Cheng ZH, Fujii D, Wong SN, Davis DM, Rosner CM, Chen JA, Bates J, Jackson J. What matters to psychology trainees when making decisions about internship and postdoctoral training sites: Differences between racial/ethnic minority and White VA trainees. Psychological Services. 2021 Nov 18. [Jessica A. Chen, PhD]
Yong CM, Fearon WF. How Gold Is the Gold Standard for Machine Learning-Based CT-FFR?. JACC. Cardiovascular imaging. 2022 Mar 1; 15(3):487-488. [Celina M. Yong, MD, MBA, MSc]
Chen JA, Li S, Wang BX, Wu N, Li F, Li J. The effect of visually evoked innate fear on reward-associated conditional response and reversal learning in mice. Physiology & Behavior. 2022 Feb 1; 244:113648. [Jessica A. Chen, PhD]
Tucher EL, Keeney T, Cohen AJ, Thomas KS. Conceptualizing Food Insecurity Among Older Adults: Development of a Summary Indicator in the National Health and Aging Trends Study. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 2021 Nov 15; 76(10):2063-2072. [Alicia J Cohen, MD, MSc]
Essien UR, Kim N, Magnani JW, Good CB, Litam TMA, Hausmann LRM, Mor MK, Gellad WF, Fine MJ. Association of Race and Ethnicity and Anticoagulation in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Dually Enrolled in Veterans Health Administration and Medicare: Effects of Medicare Part D on Prescribing Disparities. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2022 Feb 1; 15(2):e008389. [Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH]
Tertulien T, Magnani JW, Essien UR. Racial and Ethnic Representation in Atrial Fibrillation Trials: CABANA and Beyond. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2021 Nov 9; 78(19):e163-e164. [Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH]
Essien UR, Dusetzina SB, Gellad WF. A Policy Prescription for Reducing Health Disparities-Achieving Pharmacoequity. JAMA. 2021 Nov 9; 326(18):1793-1794. [Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH]
Cohen AJ, Dosa DM, Rudolph JL, Halladay CW, Heisler M, Thomas KS. Risk factors for Veteran food insecurity: findings from a National US Department of Veterans Affairs Food Insecurity Screener. Public Health Nutrition. 2022 Apr 1; 25(4):819-828. [Alicia J Cohen, MD, MSc]
Appaneal HJ, Caffrey AR, Lopes VV, Dosa DM, Shireman TI, LaPlante KL. Frequency and Predictors of Suboptimal Prescribing Among a Cohort of Older Male Residents with Urinary Tract Infections. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2021 Nov 2; 73(9):e2763-e2772. [Haley Appaneal, PharmD]
Vranas KC, Scott JY, Kerlin MP, Chesnutt M, Sullivan DR, Slatore CG. Variability in Intensive Care Utilization Among Patients Admitted to VA Medical Centers with Acute Respiratory Failure. [Abstract]. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2021 Nov 1; 201(B21):A2796. [Kelly C. Vranas, MD]
Hayes CJ, Krebs EE, Li C, Brown J, Hudson T, Martin BC. Association between discontinuing chronic opioid therapy and newly diagnosed substance use disorders, accidents, self-inflicted injuries and drug overdoses within the prescribers' health care system: a retrospective cohort study. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 2022 Apr 1; 117(4):946-968. [Corey J Hayes, PhD, PharmD]
Tieri JJ, Alexander B, Egge JA, Heintz BH, Livorsi DJ. Antibiotic prescribing in mental health units across the Veterans' Health Administration: How much and how appropriate? Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2021 Oct 21; 1-4. [Daniel J Livorsi, MD, MS]
Silvestrini M, Indresano J, Zeliadt SB, Chen JA. "There's a huge benefit just to know that someone cares:" a qualitative examination of rural veterans' experiences with TelePain. BMC health services research. 2021 Oct 16; 21(1):1111. [Jessica A. Chen, PhD]
Gay L, Sheth S, Horstman MJ. Things We Do for No Reason : Prescribing Appetite Stimulants to Hospitalized Older Adults With Unintentional Weight Loss. Journal of hospital medicine. 2021 Oct 13. [Molly Horstman, MD]