2006 HSR&D National Meeting Abstracts

2006 HSR&D National Meeting Abstracts

Number	Presenter	Title	Type
1001	Groeneveld	Racial Differences in Procedures: Are VAMCs with Large Minority Populations Underusing Technology?	Plenary
1002	Young	Evaluating a Chronic Care Model Designed to Improve Treatment for Schizophrenia (EQUIP)	Plenary
1003	Stroupe	Cost-Effectiveness of Angioplasty versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts for High-Risk Patients	Plenary
1004	Fortney	Telemedicine-Based Collaborative Care To Reduce Rural Disparities	Plenary
1005	Kivlahan	Health Status Changes with Onsite vs. Referral Primary Care for Veterans in Addictions Treatment	Plenary
1006	Van Houtven	Racial Disparities in Preventable Hospitalization In Community-Dwelling Veterans with Dementia	Paper
1007	Piette	Differential Medication Adherence Among Veterans with Multiple Chronic Illnesses	Paper
1008	Arnold	Death, Where is Thy Record? Death Ascertainment for Veterans	Paper
1009	Dominitz	Racial Differences in the Evaluation and Treatment of Hepatitis C: A Retrospective Cohort Study	Paper
1010	Tiwari	Assessing Facility Performance in Achieving Intensive Glycemic Control: Who Should be Profiled?	Paper
1011	Spiegel	Effectiveness of a Model Physician-Patient Relationship in Veterans with Irritable Bowel Syndrome	Paper
1012	Hanlon	Incidence and Predictors of All and Preventable Adverse Drug Reactions in Frail Elderly Outpatients	Paper
1013	Weaver	Evaluation of Three Models of All-Inclusive Care for Frail Elderly Veterans	Paper
1014	Sohn	Transition to the New Race/Ethnicity Data Collection Standards in the Department of Veterans Affairs	Paper
1015	Reker	Stroke Guideline Compliance and Patient Outcomes	Paper
1016	Bormann	Efficacy of Mantram Repetition on Spirituality in HIV-Infected Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial	Paper
1017	Yano	Unintended Consequences of Evidence-Based QI:Smoking Cessation Clinic Referral Doesn’t Improve Quits	Paper
1018	Steinman	Polypharmacy and Prescribing Quality in Elderly Veterans	Paper
1019	Zeber	Ethnicity, Perceptions of Therapeutic Alliance, and Adherence in Patients with Bipolar Disorder	Paper
1020	Mortensen	Impact of Prior Statin Use on Mortality for Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia	Paper
1021	Rosen	Identification of Patient Safety Events from VA Administrative Data: Is it Valid?	Paper
1022	Prentice	Delayed Access to Health Care and Mortality	Paper
1023	Seal	VA Post-Deployment Screening and Treatment Referral of OEF/OIF Veterans	Paper
1024	Borzecki	The Effect of Age on Hypertension Control and Management	Paper
1025	Groeneveld	Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward Innovative Medical Technology	Paper
1026	Kaboli	The VA Enhanced Pharmacy Outpatient Clinic (EPOC) Trial: A Randomized-Controlled Intervention	Paper
1027	Anaya	Improving HIV Screening with Rapid Testing and Streamlined Counseling	Paper
1028	Blevins	Planning Effective Educational Interventions for Clinicians in Complex Mental Health Service Systems	Paper
1029	Heisler	Racial Disparities in Diabetes Care Processes, Outcomes, and Treatment Intensity	Paper
1030	Alessi	Sleep Disturbance and Functional Recovery Among Older People Undergoing Post-Acute Rehabilitation	Paper
1031	Liu	Improving Access to Primary Care Services: Open New Clinics or Contract with Community Providers?	Paper
1032	Wakefield	Resource Use in Veterans with Congestive Heart Failure Following a Home Telehealth Intervention	Paper
1033	Popescu	Disparity in Coronary Interventions in Patients Admitted to VA Hospitals without Revascularization	Paper
1034	Partin	Who Uses Decision Aids? Findings from a Trial Comparing Two Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Aids	Paper
1035	Partin	Promoting Repeat Treatment Among Relapsed Smokers: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial	Paper
1036	Levine	Double Head Images? Dual Brain Imaging in Veterans Hospitalized with Acute Ischemic Stroke (IS)	Paper
1037	Holmes	Inequity of Not Assessing Veterans’ Attitudes Informed by Military Service: Detainee-Abuse Example	Paper
1038	Rosenheck	Dissemination of Supported Employment for Homeless Veterans: Impact on Two-Year Client Outcomes	Paper
1039	Mularski	Racial Disparity in Site of Death: African-Americans and Hispanics at Higher Risk for Hospital Death	Paper
1040	Wright	Quality of Care and Race in the VA	Paper
1041	Himelhoch	Understanding Associations between Serious Mental Illness and HIV: A National Multivariate Analysis	Paper
1042	Vogel	Cost of Home-Telehealth Programs for Chronic Diseases with Selection Bias and Regression to the Mean	Paper
1043	Dobscha	Randomized Controlled Trial of a Low-Intensity Collaborative Intervention for Depression	Paper
1044	Ilgen	Treatment Intensity and Symptom Severity in Patients with Substance Use Disorders	Paper
1045	Kern	Prescription of Diuretics with Angiotensin System Inhibitors in Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease	Paper
1046	Butterfield	Adverse Impact of Involuntary Hospitalization on Perceptions of Psychiatric Care in Veterans	Paper
1047	Kaboli	Impact of VA/Private Sector Co-Management on Blood Pressure Control and Guideline Concordant Therapy	Paper
1048	Smith	Barriers to Following Guideline Recommendations for Antipsychotic Medication Management	Paper
1049	Hofer	Providers Vary Substantially in their Propensity to Intensify Blood Pressure Treatment	Paper
1050	Chumbler	The Cost-Utility of a Home-Telehealth Program for Veterans with Diabetes	Paper
1051	Sloan	Where Best to Invest? Model Information vs. Model Selection when Evaluating Facility Performance	Paper
1052	Rupper	The VA Donut Hole: Lower Drug Co-Pays Through Medicare for Many Veterans Living Near Poverty	Paper
1053	Doshi	Impact of a Medication Co-Payment Increase on Blood Pressure Among Veterans	Paper
1054	Vijan	Using Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) to Measure Quality of Care in Diabetes	Paper
1055	Griffin	Prevalence and Variation of Health Literacy Skills among Veterans	Paper
1056	Resnick	What Makes Vocational Rehabilitation Effective? Program Elements and Employment Outcomes Nationally	Paper
1057	Petersen	Is There Overlap of Coding of Diagnoses for Veterans Who Use Both VA and Medicare Services?	Paper
1058	Wagner	The Cost Effectiveness of An Outreach Intervention for High-Risk Women with Abnormal Pap Smears	Paper
1059	Bennett	Prostate Cancer in Hispanics: An Emerging Focus of Patient Concern?	Paper
1060	Volpp	Racial Disparities: A Comparison of Outcomes from Inpatient Admission in VA and Non-VA Hospitals	Paper
1061	Collins	Risk for Death Following Limb Surgery in Veterans with Peripheral Arterial Disease	Paper
1062	Gordon	Racial Differences in Doctors’ Information Giving and Patients’ Participation	Paper
1063	Martins	Impact of Decision Support for Hypertension on Clinicians’ Prescribing and Patients’ Blood Pressures	Paper
1064	McDermott	Factors Associated with Reperfusion for ST Segment Elevation MI Patients in VHA Facilities	Paper
1065	Phansalkar	Development of the QUASII (QUality Assessment of Studies in Informatics Implementations) Instrument	Paper
1066	Bowman	Sustained Use of Implemented Quality Improvement in VA HIV Care	Paper
1067	Haskell	Veteran Women's Experiences with Discontinuing Hormone Replacement Therapy	Paper
1068	McCarthy	No-Shows Among Patients with Serious Mental Illness: Transportation Matters	Paper
1069	Kales	The Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia: Is There An Increased Risk of Mortality?	Paper
1070	Desai	HIV Testing, Receipt of Results, and Post-Test Counseling among Veterans with Serious Mental Illness	Paper
1071	Dubbert	Effects of Nurse Counseling on Walking and Strength Exercise in Aging Veterans	Paper
1072	Stroupe	Cost of End-Stage Renal Disease Care for Veterans Receiving Dialysis in VA vs. Non-VA Facilities	Paper
1073	Bush	Risk and Awareness of Peripheral Vascular Disease in Women Veterans	Paper
1074	Hasche	Identifying Primarily Outpatient Pharmacy (POP) Users in the VA: An Update	Paper
1075	Morgan	Use of VA Pharmacy Services by Medicare HMO Enrollees	Paper
2001	Sox-Harris	Three Ways to Improve the Validity of Statistical Results	Workshop
2002	Smith	Advances in Utilization and Cost Data	Workshop
2003	Piette	The Impact of Prescription Drug Co-Payments on the Care and Outcomes of Chronically-Ill Veterans	Workshop
2004	Kressin	Career and Time Management Strategies: Advice from Successful Colleagues	Workshop
2005	Jackson	Building Quality Improvement Partnerships in the VA: The Colorectal Cancer Care Collaborative	Workshop
2006	Kaboli	Hospitalists: Review of Research, Current Trends, and Research Opportunities in VA	Workshop
2007	Kallen	Self-Report Measures in Disparities Research: Assessing Measurement Bias in Diverse Populations	Workshop
2008	Browning	Clinical Decision Support Systems: The Iterative Process of Design	Workshop
2009	Murphy	New VIReC Tools for Researchers Using VA Data	Workshop
2010	Li	Value and Challenge in Measuring and Managing Staffing and Other Nursing Factors in Acute Care	Workshop
2011	Luck	Marketing: An Essential Component for Effectively Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions in VA	Workshop
2012	Sobo	Regional Implementation Research: Lessons from QUERI-HIV	Workshop
2013	Saliba	Giving Voice to Vulnerable Older Adults: Methodological Challenges	Workshop
2014	Bryan	Demystifying the Scientific Review Process	Workshop
3001	Zillich	Antimicrobial Use Control Measures to Prevent and Control Antimicrobial Resistance in US Hospitals	Poster
3002	DeBenedetti	Veteran Substance Use Disorder Patients with Fewer Resources Benefit More from 12-Step Groups	Poster
3003	Weiner	Defining and Exposing Contextual Errors in Medical Decision Making	Poster
3004	West	Greater Mental Distress Among Younger VA Patients in BRFSS Surveys During and After the Iraq Invasion	Poster
3005	O'Hare	Geography Matters: Residential Segregation by Race and Dialysis Patient and Facility Outcomes	Poster
3006	Krein	Does Self-Efficacy Mediate the Influence of Chronic Pain on Patients’ Self-Care Adherence?	Poster
3007	Zheng	VHA and Non-VHA Post-Stroke Rehospitalization by Veterans with Acute Stroke	Poster
3008	Wallace	Rural/Urban Disparities in Health-Related Quality of Life	Poster
3009	Wolinsky	Dual Use of Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration: Are There Adverse Health Outcomes?	Poster
3010	Rajan	Facility Level Variation in Patient Footcare Education: Implications for Performance Measurement	Poster
3011	Shen	Obesity and VHA Cost of Treating Veterans with Diabetes	Poster
3012	Krein	Adoption of Infection Prevention Practices by VA and Non-VA Hospitals	Poster
3013	Maney	Impact of Self-Reported Social/Health Data on Facility Level Ranking of Improved Glycemic Control	Poster
3014	Hagedorn	The Liver Health Initiative: Offering Hepatitis Prevention Services during Substance Abuse Treatment	Poster
3015	Wilt	Spirometry as a Biomotivator to Improve Smoking Cessation Rates: Results from Randomized Trials	Poster
3016	Zeber	The Role of Comorbid Psychiatric Conditions on Health Status in Veterans with Epilepsy	Poster
3017	Yu	Regional Variations of Aggressive Medicare Treatments in VA and Medicare Hospitals	Poster
3018	Barnett	Lack of Racial Variation in the Use of ACE-I or ARB Therapy in Primary Care Patients with Diabetes and Hypertension	Poster
3019	DiMartino	Patient Characteristics Associated with Participation in DNA Banking: National Veterans ALS Registry	Poster
3020	Barnett	Comparison of Rates of Inappropriate Medications in a VA and Private Sector Population	Poster
3021	Cowper	Geographic Variation in Veterans' Receipt of Specialized Stroke Rehabilitation	Poster
3022	Murdoch	Association Between Sexual Harassment and Adverse Outcomes After Controlling for Other Traumas	Poster
3023	Golightly	Racial Differences in Treatment Decision-Making among Veterans with Osteoarthritis	Poster
3024	Litaker	Provider Efficacy and Attitudes and Their Relationship to Treatment Outcomes	Poster
3025	Martin	Daytime Sleeping is Associated with Receiving Less Therapy Among Older Rehabilitation Patients	Poster
3026	Flanagan	Facility and Provider-Level Determinants of Depression Screening Adherence	Poster
3027	Kerr	Challenges in Treating Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: Perceptions of Primary Care Providers	Poster
3028	Klamerus	Knowledge of Blood Pressure Targets and Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring among Patients with Diabetes	Poster
3029	Zeber	Ethnicity and the Impact of Higher Medication Copayments among Veterans with Schizophrenia	Poster
3030	Groeneveld	Racial Differences in Expectations of Joint Replacement Outcomes among Veterans with Osteoarthritis	Poster
3031	Barnett	The Effectiveness of a Care Coordination/Home-Telehealth Program for Veterans with Diabetes	Poster
3032	Weeks	Using AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to Identify Vulnerable Populations in the VA	Poster
3033	Weeks	Where Do VA Patients Obtain Transplant Care?	Poster
3034	Weeks	Financial and Travel Time Ramifications of Moving VA CABG Care to the Private Sector in New York	Poster
3035	Kwon	Quality of Oral Anticoagulant Treatment among Atrial Fibrillation Patients Post-Stroke	Poster
3036	Lemke	Characterizing the Clinical Challenges of Younger VA Nursing Home Patients	Poster
3037	Pugh	Assessing Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly Using a New Quality Measure	Poster
3038	Mittal	Evacuation of SMI Veterans During Natural Disasters	Poster
3039	Maynard	The Prevalence and Outcomes of In-Hospital Acute Myocardial Infarction in the VHA	Poster
3040	Selim	Risk Adjusted Mortality as an Indicator of Outcomes	Poster
3041	Walsh	Reversing Inflation of Outpatient Pharmaceutical Costs in a VA Medical Center	Poster
3042	Jia	The Impact of Psychosocial Factors and CD4 Count on HRQoL Change among HIV-Infected Veterans	Poster
3043	Christiansen	Patient Safety: How Do VA Hospitals Compare to Non-VA Hospitals on Rates of Patient Safety Events?	Poster
3044	Levine	Brain MRI in Acute Ischemic Stroke (IS): Do New Approaches Diffuse Equally to Blacks and Whites?	Poster
3045	Walter	Relationship of Health Status and Screening PSA among Elderly Veterans	Poster
3046	Goetz	Development and Implementation of a Clinical Reminder for HIV Testing	Poster
3047	Butchart	The Burden of Chronic Pain among VA Patients	Poster
3048	Kilbourne	Race, Polypharmacy, and Metabolic Risk Factors in Veterans with Bipolar Disorder	Poster
3049	Kilbourne	Access to and Satisfaction with Medical Care among Patients with Serious Mental Illness	Poster
3050	Friedemann-Sánchez	Differences in Colorectal Cancer Screening Barriers and Preferences Among Female and Male Veterans	Poster
3051	LaVela	Smoking Decisions and Behaviors of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries and Disorders	Poster
3052	Parada	Medical Responses to Small-Scale Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax Attacks: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis	Poster
3053	Spehar	Concomitant Use of Benzodiazepines and Other Drugs and Risk of Injury in Community-Dwelling Veterans	Poster
3054	Boggs	Childhood Violence is Associated with Aggression and Suicidal Ideation in Males with PTSD	Poster
3055	Boggs	Racial Differences in Validity of Psychometric Test Data in Veterans Being Evaluated for PTSD	Poster
3056	Roberts	An Examination of Interpersonal Violence in Women with PTSD and Major Depressive Disorder	Poster
3057	Boggs	Higher Rates of Suicidality in Women Veterans With Depression and Comorbid PTSD	Poster
3058	Rosen	Substance Abuse Related Mortality Among VA Psychiatric Patients	Poster
3059	Holsinger	Patient’s Perceptions of the Acceptability, Risks, and Benefits of Dementia Screening	Poster
3060	Sernyak	Pharmacoepidemiology of PTSD Treatment	Poster
3061	Jones	Screening and Recognition of Depression in Primary Care among Veterans with Diabetes Mellitus	Poster
3062	Watts	Small Area Analysis of Psychiatric Admissions in Northern New England	Poster
3063	Vogel	Comparative Performance of Function-Based Risk Adjustment Systems for Stroke Outcomes in the VHA	Poster
3064	Palacios	The Impact of Rehabilitation Nurses’ Characteristics on Patient Outcomes in Inpatient Settings	Poster
3065	Stecker	Patterns of Health Services Use Associated with VA Substance Abuse Treatment	Poster
3066	Steckart	Case Finding in Palliative Care: Development and Evaluation of a Resident Prognostication Tool	Poster
3067	Noel	Self-Management Learning Needs of Veterans with Multimorbidity	Poster
3068	Berlowitz	Do Diagnoses Contribute to Predictions of Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes?	Poster
3069	Yano	Diffusion of Innovation: The VA’s Experiment in Delivering Comprehensive Women’s Health Care	Poster
3070	Wilt	Antibiotic Utilization: High in Male Veterans with Chronic Prostatitis and Varies by Region and Rate	Poster
3071	Greiner	Organizational Factors and ICU Patient Outcomes in VHA	Poster
3072	Wallace	Tobacco Counseling Across the Ages	Poster
3073	Bair	Implementation of Pain as the 5th Vital Sign Initiative and Trends in Analgesic Prescriptions	Poster
3074	Yeager	Selecting an Optimal Cutscore for the PTSD Checklist (PCL) in VA Primary Care Settings	Poster
3075	Kelly	What Do VA Clinicians Believe about PTSD Treatability?	Poster
3076	Raugi	Identifying Foot Care Needs in Diverse High-Risk Veterans	Poster
3077	Kline	Demographic and Risk Factor Profiles of Substance Abusing Homeless Veterans	Poster
3078	Chren	Patient-Reported Outcome of Treatments for Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in a VA Clinic Compared with a Private Practice	Poster
3079	Sun	Race and the Use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Veterans with Acute Myocardial Infarction	Poster
3080	Woodbridge	Systems Engineering Tools in Healthcare Delivery: Simulating Advanced Clinic Access Patient Recall	Poster
3081	Greiner	A Comparison of Four AMI Mortality Risk Adjustment Models	Poster
3082	Gifford	Tablet Audio Computer-Assisted Patient Interview to Assess Medication Adherence in Veterans with HIV	Poster
3083	Valenstein	The Stability of Medication Adherence Among Patients with Schizophrenia	Poster
3084	Cronkite	The Long-Term Course of Depression: Comparing VA and Non-VA Patients	Poster
3085	Groessl	Implementing Pharmacist Support and Pager Reminders for Antiretroviral (ARV) Adherence in Veterans	Poster
3086	Phibbs	Gender Differences in Medical Conditions, Utilization, and Costs of Care for Veterans Using VA Care	Poster
3087	Schutte	Identifying Gaps in Guideline Concordant Care for MDD: A National Study	Poster
3088	Sales	Association Between Nurse Staffing and Education and Inpatient Mortality in VHA	Poster
3089	Housen	Feasibility of Including Self-Reported Preferences in VA Nursing Home Resident Assessments	Poster
3090	Lowy	Race or Region? Examining Race Disparities in AMI Mortality in VHA	Poster
3091	Derleth	Estimating Preference Weighted Health Status from SF-36 Responses for the ACQUIP (VA) Patients	Poster
3092	McCarthy	Nursing Home Placement Among VA Patients with and without Serious Mental Illness	Poster
3093	Bean-Mayberry	Effect of Gender and Race on Receipt of Influenza and Pneumococcal Immunizations in VA	Poster
3094	Sauer	Serum Potassium Monitoring in Veterans Using Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Inhibition	Poster
3095	Dubbert	Are Physical and/or Cognitive Activity Associated with Cognitive Performance in Aging Men?	Poster
3096	Wei	Use Spanish Surname Match to Reduce Bias in Interpreting Medicare Data for Hispanic/White Veterans	Poster
3097	Zimmer	Effects of Increased Copayment on Antidepressant Prescription Fill Rates in VA Patients	Poster

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2006 HSR&D National Meeting Abstracts