Tools & Resources

** Some resources are only available on the VA intranet. VA employees can visit this page at https://vaww.hsrd.research.va.gov/dcnp/resources.cfm for access.

A list of resources and tools to assist those investigating disrupted and deferred care:

• Evidence Compendium: COVID-19 Pandemic-related Disruptions in Health Care, February 2022 (VA intranet only)
  • Identifies and describes available research on COVID-19-related disruptions in health care and associated clinical impacts
  • Citation: Mackey K, Anderson J, Rahman B, Ward RM, and Parr NJ. Evidence Compendium: COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Disruptions in Health Care. Washington, DC: Evidence Synthesis Program, Health Services Research and Development Service, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs. VA ESP Project #09-199; 2022.
• COVID-19 Timelines and Dates
• Overall timeline: December 2019-August 2022
• Dates:
• Pandemic phases
• First cases
• Variant detection
• Pronouncements by medical societies
• Diagnostics and vaccines
• Policies
• DCNP GitHub
  •  Code and data for estimating excess deaths using National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and VA data
• CDC COVID Data Tracker
  • Data on COVID-19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations, vaccination over time and by location; includes variant tracking data
• COVID-19 variant phases (determined by variant dominance in regional wastewater) based on data from the Broad Institute
• VA Press Release: Timeline on how VA Prepared for COVID-19 Outbreak and Continues to Keep Veterans Safe (April 20, 2020)
• Veterans Health Administration Moving Forward Guidebook: Safe Care is Our Mission (June 9, 2020)
  • VA Office of Healthcare Transformation COVID-19 Response Team SharePoint site (VA intranet only)
• VA Operational Memos (VA intranet only)
  • VA Memo: Community Care Consult and Appointment Cancellation Management Initiative (CACMI) Higher Level Review (December 10, 2021)
  • VA Memo: Mitigation Strategies for Transfusion Services During COVID-19 Pandemic (VISN 1) (March 25, 2020)
  • VA Memo: Essential Health Care Operations Allowed to Continue During Shelter in Place (March 23, 2020)
  • VA Memo: Primary Care Guidance for COVID-19 Pandemic Response (March 20, 2020)
  • VA Memo: Cessation of Elective Surgical and Ambulatory Procedures (VISN 1) (March 15, 2020)
• VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports – The below reports were identified using the search term “COVID.”
  • Purchases of Smartphones and Tablets for Veterans’ Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic(May 4, 2022)
  • Audit of Community Care Consults during COVID-19(January 19, 2022)
  • Review of Community-Based Outpatient Clinics Closed Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 6, 2021)
  • Review of Veterans Health Administration’s Virtual Primary Care Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic(March 11, 2021)
  • Review of Veterans Health Administration's Emergency Department and Urgent Care Center Operations during the COVID-19 Pandemic(December 17, 2020)
  • Veterans Crisis Line Challenges, Contingency Plans, and Successes During the COVID-19 Pandemic (October 28, 2020)
  • Appointment Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic(September 1, 2020)
  • Review of Veterans Health Administration’s COVID-19 Response and Continued Pandemic Readiness(July 16, 2020)
• VA COVID-19 websites
  • COVID-19: Shared Data Resource
  • VA COVID-19 Observational Research Collaboratory (CORC)
  • VA ORD COVID-19 For the VA Research Community (VA intranet only)
• VINCI websites
  • VINCI Quick Links webpage includes links to VA data resources (VA intranet only)
  • VINCI Training and Office Hour (a weekly Q&A) (VA intranet only)
• VA Community Care data
  • Access and Community Care Engagement Network Team (ACCENT) website
  • DCNP Knowledge Group Presentation: VA-Purchased Care Data Resources for Researchers, January 2024
  • VA VIReC Database and Methods Cyberseminar: Updates on VA-Purchased Community Care Data, September 2022
  • VINCI Cyberseminar: A Practical Approach to Working with VA-Purchased Community Care Data, October 2022
  • VA VIReC Database and Methods Cyberseminar: Understanding VA-Purchased Community Care Claims and Referrals from the Office of Integrated Veteran Care Consolidated Data Set (IVC_CDS), February 2024
  • HERC: Information about VA Community Care Data
• VIReC Medicare Data for Veterans with COVID-19 (VA intranet only)

• CDC COVID Data Tracker
  • Data on COVID-19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations, vaccination over time and by location; includes variant tracking data

• WHO COVID-19 Dashboard
  • Confirmed cases globally
  • Worldwide deaths due to COVID-19
  • Total vaccine doses administered
  • COVID-19 Count Comparison
  • COVID-19 Explorer
    • Updated data visualizations

• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Pandemic timelines
  • Worldwide vaccinations
  • State reporting frequencies
  • US hospital capacity
  • State timelines of COVID-19 policies
    • Note: Adds assessment of comprehension in comparison to other sources
  • Global case trends

• University of Washington COVID-19 Health Data
  • Cumulative deaths
  • Vaccine coverage
  • Hospital resource use
  • Mask use trends

• NPR
  • State tracking of COVID-19 cases
  • Trends in COVID-19 cases

• New York Times

• Case Counts
• Test positivity rates, hospitalizations, deaths
• State trends
• Vaccination rates
• County trends

• Datasets
• CDC
• Provisional death counts
• COVID-19 hospital data from National Hospital Care Survey
• COVID-19 case surveillance
• COVID-19 vaccinations at a county level
• COVID-19 vaccinations at national level
• Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
• Testing and vaccine data
• COVID-19 racial data tracker
• Google COVID-19 open data
• Health Data hospital capacity
• NYT COVID-19 data
• Our World in Data (global COVID-19 data sets)
• WHO COVID-19 data

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