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• Sullivan BA, Qin X, Redding TS, Gellad ZF, Stone A, Weiss D, Madison AN, Sims KJ, Williams CD, Lieberman D, Hauser ER, Provenzale D. Genetic Colorectal Cancer and Adenoma Risk Variants are Associated with Increasing Adenoma Counts. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2020 Sep 14.
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• Clark E, Chen L, Dong Y, Raychaudhury S, White D, Kramer JR, Chiao E. Veteran women living with HIV have increased risk of HPV-associated genital tract cancers. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2020 Aug 12.

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• VA Patients Have Fewer Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations Post-Chemotherapy than Medicare Patients
  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new quality measure to reduce potentially avoidable hospital admissions among patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy. In this study, investigators used this CMS measure to compare the quality of care received by chemotherapy patients treated through traditional Fee-for-Service Medicare versus VA, using a cohort of dually-enrolled ...
  
  Date: July 15, 2020
• VA HIT-Related Outpatient Diagnostic Delays
  This study evaluated the role of health information technology (HIT) in the root cause analyses (RCAs) of outpatient diagnostic delays submitted to the VA National Center for Patient Safety, which leads patient safety initiatives and uses RCAs of adverse events and close calls to promote learning across the VA healthcare system. Findings showed that of the 214 RCAs included in this study, 88 invol...
  
  Date: June 25, 2020
• Increases in Opioid Dosing of 20% or Greater were Not Associated with Improvements in Pain among Veterans
  This study examined the influence of opioid dose escalation on pain scores recorded in the VA electronic medical record among patients on chronic opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain. Findings showed that increases in opioid dose of 20% or greater were not associated with improvements in pain scores. In the follow-up period, dose escalators had higher average morphine milligram equivalents (...
  
  Date: January 7, 2020
• Timing of Palliative Care for VA Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer is Associated with Survival
  Palliative care is often underutilized – or delivered too late to provide meaningful benefit. This study sought to determine whether the early use of palliative care – received soon after diagnosis – is associated with improved survival, if referral did not occur as part of the dying process. Findings showed that palliative care was associated with survival among patients with advanced lung cancer...
  
  Date: September 19, 2019
• Increased Hospice Care for Veterans Associated with Less Aggressive Medical Treatment and Lower Medical Costs
  This study sought to determine if increased availability of hospice for Veterans is associated with reduced aggressive treatments and medical care costs at the end of life. Findings showed that Veterans with newly diagnosed end-stage lung cancer treated at VAMCs with the most expansion in hospice use had a significantly greater likelihood of receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy after hospic...
  
  Date: March 28, 2019

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