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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
• Anti-MRSA Therapy Associated with Greater 30-day Mortality Compared with Standard Therapy for Veterans with Pneumonia
  This study sought to determine the association of empirical anti-MRSA therapy with 30-day mortality for Veterans hospitalized with pneumonia. Findings showed that empirical anti-MRSA therapy was significantly associated with greater 30-day mortality compared with standard therapy alone. There was a significant increase in 30-day mortality associated with empirical anti-MRSA therapy plus standard t...
  
  Date: February 17, 2020
• Lack of Awareness among VA Providers about Risk Associated with Prescribing Inhaled Corticosteroids to Veterans with COPD
  More than 50% of patients with mild-to-moderate COPD in the U.S. are prescribed inhaled corticosteroids despite recommendations to restrict use to patients with frequent breathing exacerbations. This study explored VA primary care providers’ experiences prescribing inhaled corticosteroids among Veterans with mild-to-moderate COPD. Of the Veterans with COPD in this study cohort, 15% were prescribed...
  
  Date: August 8, 2019
• Using Yelp, VA Hospitals Rated Higher than Affiliated Non-VA Hospitals
  Online patient ratings of hospitals (e.g., Yelp) have been shown to correlate strongly with more conventional measures of patient satisfaction, as well as patient outcomes. Therefore, this study compared online hospital ratings from Yelp between VA hospitals and their local affiliated hospitals. Findings showed that VA hospitals had significantly higher Yelp ratings than non-VA-affiliated hospital...
  
  Date: June 28, 2017
• ICU Treatment for Medicare Patients with Pneumonia Associated with Better Outcomes without Increased Costs
  This study sought to determine the association between ICU admission and outcomes, 30-day mortality, and costs among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for pneumonia. To account for unmeasured confounding between groups (ICU vs. general ward admission), an instrumental variable (IV) was used – the differential distance to a high-ICU use hospital. Findings showed that ICU admission of those patien...
  
  Date: September 22, 2015

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• FORUM, May 2010: Research and Prevention of Health Care - Associated Infections
  ...to Improve ICU Outcomes: Reducing Central Line- Associated Bloodstream Infections and Ventilator Pneumonia in VA ICUs Marta L. Render, M.D., Chief,...
  
  
• Management Briefs eBrief-no68 - New Articles Highlight Readmission Rates and Hospital Quality of Care
  ...and outcomes measures for myocardial infarction (MI), congestive heart failure (CHF), and pneumonia, investigators sought to answer three specific...
  
  
• FORUM, May 2010: Research and Prevention of Health Care - Associated Infections
  ...such as perioperative antibiotics and positioning for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Many other areas in need of HAI prevention...
  
  
• Management Briefs eBrief-no74 - Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs
  ...effect on mortality (3 studies), whereas interventions to increase guideline compliance in patients with community-acquired pneumonia were associated...
  
  
• HSR&D Research Briefs
  ...Long-Term Care • MRSA • Opioids • PACT • Pain • Performance Measures • Pneumonia • PTSD • Schizophrenia • Smoking • Stroke...
  
  

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• Visit the VA’s Office of Public Health website to learn more about infection prevention and vaccine programs.
• Visit the infectious diseases topic page at the VA Office of Research & Development website to learn more about pneumonia research milestones throughout VA.
• Visit the pneumonia topic section of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention website.