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Gender and place of death from coronary artery disease in Washington StateCharles Maynard
Health Services Research and Development 152, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System, 1660 S Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, USA
Am J Cardiol 93:1286-8. 2004....- Healthcare charges and use in commercially insured children enrolled in managed care health plans in Washington StateC Maynard
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Matern Child Health J 4:29-38. 2000..We focused on the effects of age and benefit level, the two most important predictors of cost and utilization in our study of adults... - Differences in cause of death of Washington State veterans who did and did not use Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare servicesCharles Maynard
Department of Veterans Affairs Epidemiologic Research and Information Center 152, 1100 Olive Way, Suite 1400, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 43:825-30. 2006..These findings suggest that the VA patient population is socially disadvantaged and more severely affected by substance-use disorders compared with veterans who do not use VA healthcare services... - Comparison of outcomes of coronary stenting versus conventional coronary angioplasty in the department of veterans affairs medical centersC Maynard
Department of Medicine and Health Services Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
Am J Cardiol 87:1240-5. 2001.... - The prevalence and outcomes of in-hospital acute myocardial infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health SystemCharles Maynard
Health Services Research and Development, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1410-6. 2006.... - The association of state per capita income and military service deaths in the Vietnam and Iraq warsCharles Maynard
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Popul Health Metr 7:1. 2009..The purpose of this report was to examine the association between war deaths and per capita income in the 50 states and District of Columbia during the Vietnam and Iraq wars... - Racial differences in outcomes of veterans undergoing percutaneous coronary interventionsC Maynard
Department of Medicine and Health Services Research and Development, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Am Heart J 142:309-13. 2001..The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were racial differences with respect to short- and long-term outcomes in veterans undergoing PCI... - Changes in the use of coronary artery revascularization procedures in the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Hospital Discharge Survey, and the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 1991-1999Charles Maynard
Health Services Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, WA, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 3:12. 2003..Whether this finding is true for revascularization procedures performed in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers is the subject of this paper... - Improved outcomes associated with stenting in the healthcare cost and utilization projectC Maynard
Department of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Interv Cardiol 14:159-63. 2001..Although the volume outcome association for stenting was less clear in this study than in Medicare, these results do not mean that the fundamental volume outcome relationship has been changed by stenting... - The use of percutaneous coronary intervention in black and white veterans with acute myocardial infarctionCharles Maynard
Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Health Services Research and Development, Seattle, Washington, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 6:107. 2006..The purpose of this study is to determine if black veterans with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are less likely to receive PCI than their white counterparts... - Utilization of drug-eluting stents in the Veterans Health AdministrationCharles Maynard
Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Am J Cardiol 96:218-20. 2005..8% vs 1.1%), as were 10-day bypass surgery rates (0.2% vs 0.4%). In summary, in a large health care system, DESs were used widely with low rates of death and bypass surgery... - Association between week of the month and death from acute myocardial infarction in Washington state, 1988 to 1997C Maynard
Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Am Heart J 140:196-9. 2000..The purpose of this report is to determine if death caused by acute myocardial infarction occurs more often in the first 7 days of the month than in the last 7 days of the preceding month... - Cause of death in Washington state veterans hospitalized with acute coronary syndromes in the veterans health administrationCharles Maynard
Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
Popul Health Metr 6:3. 2008..abstract:.. - Racial differences in the utilization of public mental health services in Washington StateC Maynard
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98105, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 24:411-24. 1997..In particular, African-Americans were more likely to use crisis services and were less likely to use individual or group treatment. This previously reported finding requires further exploration... - Data resources in the Department of Veterans AffairsCharles Maynard
HSR and D Center of Excellence, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, and the Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 27:B22-6. 2004..To provide an overview of databases that are maintained by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and are of relevance to investigators involved in epidemiologic, clinical, and health services research... - The role of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in predicting hospital mortality for percutaneous coronary interventions in the Clinical Outcomes Assessment ProgramCharles Maynard
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, 1100 Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Invasive Cardiol 21:1-5. 2009..89; 95% CI = 0.85-0.93). Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is an important determinant of risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality for PCI, particularly for hospitals with low volumes and relatively high volumes of cardiac arrest cases... - Psychiatric hospitalization of persons with dual diagnoses: estimates from two national surveysC Maynard
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98105, USA
Psychiatr Serv 49:1615-7. 1998..Nationally, the number of community hospitalizations for dually diagnosed patients increased 15 percent from 1990 to 1994, and total hospital charges increased from $1.9 to $2.2 billion... - Substance use and five-year survival in Washington State mental hospitalsCharles Maynard
Department of Health Services at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 31:339-45. 2004..Persons with these conditions need treatment to prevent premature death and medical conditions directly related to substance use disorder... - Utilization of services for mentally ill chemically abusing patients discharged from residential treatmentC Maynard
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98105, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 26:219-28. 1999..This study was limited by the absence of a control group and posttreatment alcohol and drug use data. In addition, other unmeasured factors could have explained the association between program completion and better outcomes... - Thrombolysis versus primary angioplasty in older patients with acute myocardial infarctionC Maynard
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle 98105, USA
Drugs Aging 14:427-35. 1999..More data about long term follow-up and the association between outcomes and hospital and operator volumes for primary PTCA in older patients are needed before a definitive recommendation can be made... - Utilization of services by persons discharged from involuntary chemical dependency treatmentC Maynard
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle, USA
J Addict Dis 19:83-93. 2000..4 per 1000 persons per year was 4 times greater than the age adjusted death rate for the US adult population. Further studies of other involuntary chemical dependency treatment programs are needed to evaluate the results of this report... - Adjusting for patient differences in predicting hospital mortality for percutaneous coronary interventions in the Clinical Outcomes Assessment ProgramCharles Maynard
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, Wash, USA
Am Heart J 145:658-64. 2003..This study describes the development and testing of models for predicting hospital mortality in patients undergoing PCI... - Assessment of vital status in Department of Veterans Affairs national databases. comparison with state death certificatesJ A Dominitz
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Ann Epidemiol 11:286-91. 2001..For veterans having exclusively outpatient visits, however, the VA files miss a substantial proportion of deaths. For these patients, alternative means of vital status ascertainment are warranted... - Primary care physician compensation method in medical groups: does it influence the use and cost of health services for enrollees in managed care organizations?D A Conrad
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 7660, USA
JAMA 279:853-8. 1998..Growth of at-risk managed care contracts between health plans and medical groups has been well documented, but less is known about the nature of financial incentives within those medical groups or their effects on health care utilization... - The effect of left internal mammary artery utilization on short-term outcomes after coronary revascularizationRobert J Dabal
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine and Health Services Research and Development, Department of Veteran's Affairs, Seattle, 98195, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 76:464-70. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: The use of LIMA grafts for coronary revascularization is associated with decreased mortality and morbidity. Despite these advantages, there is great variability in its application across the state of Washington... - Use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors at discharge in patients with acute myocardial infarction in the United States: data from the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction 2H V Barron
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 32:360-7. 1998.... - Trends in peripheral vascular procedures in the Veterans Health Administration, 1989-1998J A Mayfield
Center of Excellence in Prosthetic Engineering and Limb Loss Prevention, Rehabilitation Research and Development, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 38:347-56. 2001..CONCLUSION: The VHA provides almost 8% of all US peripheral vascular procedures in males. The VHA age-specific rates differ from the US rates with a shift to younger patients. The rates decreased for all age groups between 1989-1998... - The association between institutional primary angioplasty procedure volume and outcome in elderly AmericansN R Every
VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, 1660 South Columbian Way, HSR and D 152, Seattle, WA, 98108, USA
J Invasive Cardiol 12:303-8. 2000..The association between primary angioplasty volume and outcome has not been evaluated... - Short-term outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention: effects of stenting and institutional volume shiftsColin T Watanabe
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
Am Heart J 144:310-4. 2002..Furthermore, same-admission CABG rates have decreased dramatically, an association seen with the introduction of stenting, but not with volume shifts... - Comparison of short-term outcomes following coronary artery stenting in men versus womenC T Watanabe
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
Am J Cardiol 88:848-52. 2001..Furthermore, it confirms that female gender is an independent predictor of mortality after conventional PTCA... - Association between percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty volumes and outcomes in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 1993-1994J L Ritchie
Department of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle, Washington, USA
Am J Cardiol 83:493-7. 1999..The results of this study support the hypothesis that better results are obtained in higher volume institutions, but also show that in 1993 and 1994, relatively few patients had their procedures performed in low-volume institutions... - The relationship between alcohol screening questionnaires and mortality among male veteran outpatientsK A Bradley
Northwest Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
J Stud Alcohol 62:826-33. 2001..This study evaluated whether responses to alcohol screening questionnaires predicted mortality in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) primary care population... - Declining mortality following acute myocardial infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care SystemStephan D Fihn
VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
BMC Cardiovasc Disord 9:44. 2009..Mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is declining worldwide. We sought to determine if mortality in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has also been declining... - A case-control study of endoscopy and mortality from adenocarcinoma of the esophagus or gastric cardia in persons with GERDDavid J Kearney
Primary and Specialty Medical Care Service, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA
Gastrointest Endosc 57:823-9. 2003..15, 0.31], p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: For patients with GERD, performing an EGD is associated with reduced mortality from adenocarcinoma of the esophagus or gastric cardia, but whether this is a causative association remains unclear... - Women veterans and outcomes after acute myocardial infarctionStephanie Wheeler
VA Northwest Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, S 111 GIMC, 1660 South Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:613-8. 2009..The objective of this study is to describe clinical characteristics, treatment, and survival in women veterans compared with men after admission to VA hospitals for AMI... - Survival following lower-limb amputation in a veteran populationJ A Mayfield
Center of Excellence in Amputation, Prosthetics, and Limb Loss Prevention, Rehabilitation Research and Development, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 38:341-5. 2001..CONCLUSION: Survival following lower-limb amputation is impaired by advancing age, cardiovascular and renal disease, and proximal amputation level. Also, a small survival advantage is seen for African Americans and those with diabetes... - Prognostic implications of the urinary albumin to creatinine ratio in veterans of different ages with diabetesANN M O'HARE
Division of Nephrology, Primary and Specialty Medicine Service Line, VA Puget Sound Medical Center, Nephrology and Renal Dialysis Unit, Bldg 100, Room 5B113, 1660 S Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:930-6. 2010..Albuminuria is associated with an increased risk of death independent of level of renal function. Whether this association is similar for adults of all ages is not known... - The association of sex and payer status on management and subsequent survival in acute myocardial infarctionJohn G Canto
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:587-93. 2002..08; 95% confidence interval, 1.05-1.10). CONCLUSION: In this large registry, we did not observe significant variations among payer classes in management and mortality among women and men after acute myocardial infarction... - Outcomes in African-American women with suspected acute myocardial infarction: the Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention ProjectC Maynard
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98102, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 87:339-44. 1995..Compared with their white counterparts, African-American women with suspected acute MI were considerably worse off from both socioeconomic and clinical standpoints, and their relative disadvantage was apparent in poor outcomes... - Herpes zoster incidence in a multicenter cohort of solid organ transplant recipientsS A Pergam
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
Transpl Infect Dis 13:15-23. 2011..To assess incidence of HZ, we examined patients who underwent SOT and received follow-up care within the large multicenter US Department of Veteran's Affairs healthcare system... - A physician survey of the effect of drug sample availability on physicians' behaviorL D Chew
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98104, USA
J Gen Intern Med 15:478-83. 2000.... - Predictors of hospital outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in the communityAudrey H Wu
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98103, USA
J Interv Cardiol 17:151-8. 2004..The observed in-hospital mortality rate is slightly higher than published in other series, but likely reflects the significant proportion of acute MI cases being treated aggressively with PCI as the primary therapy... - Predictors of wound complications after laryngectomy: A study of over 2000 patientsSeth R Schwartz
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 131:61-8. 2004..Those significant at the P < 0.01 level were analyzed with logistic regression and conjunctive consolidation to identify independent predictors of wound complications... - Survival of veterans with sleep apnea: continuous positive airway pressure versus surgeryEdward M Weaver
Surgery and Perioperative Care Service, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, WA 98108, USA
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 130:659-65. 2004..Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) improves sleep apnea survival. We tested whether CPAP is associated with better survival than uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP)... - Alcohol screening and risk of postoperative complications in male VA patients undergoing major non-cardiac surgeryKatharine A Bradley
Health Services Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:162-9. 2011..Four weeks of preoperative abstinence decreases the risk of complications, but practical approaches for early preoperative identification of alcohol misuse are needed... - Pilot study of rapid infusion of 2 L of 4 degrees C normal saline for induction of mild hypothermia in hospitalized, comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrestFrancis Kim
Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Circulation 112:715-9. 2005..Infusion of cold, intravenous fluid has been proposed as a safe, effective, and inexpensive technique to induce mild hypothermia after cardiac arrest... - Pilot randomized clinical trial of prehospital induction of mild hypothermia in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with a rapid infusion of 4 degrees C normal salineFrancis Kim
Department of Medicine, Box 359748, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Circulation 115:3064-70. 2007..The aims of the present pilot study were to assess the feasibility, safety, and effectiveness of in-field cooling... - Posttraumatic stress disorder screening status is associated with increased VA medical and surgical utilization in womenDorcas J Dobie
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:S58-64. 2006..Women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) report poor health, but associations with health care utilization are understudied... - Glycemic and lipid control among patients with diabetes at six U.S. public hospitalsLisa D Chew
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, 325 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 19:1060-75. 2008..While public hospital systems care for large numbers of socioeconomically vulnerable and ethnically diverse populations who have diabetes, little is known about the quality of diabetes care provided in these sites... - Changing volumes, risk profiles, and outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary interventionsGabriel S Aldea
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 87:1828-38. 2009.... - Transthoracic incremental monophasic versus biphasic defibrillation by emergency responders (TIMBER): a randomized comparison of monophasic with biphasic waveform ascending energy defibrillation for the resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due Peter J Kudenchuk
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Circulation 114:2010-8. 2006..Although biphasic, as compared with monophasic, waveform defibrillation for cardiac arrest is increasing in use and popularity, whether it is truly a more lifesaving waveform is unproven... - The relationship between repeated epidural steroid injections and subsequent opioid use and lumbar surgeryJanna Friedly
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Costs and Outcomes Research Center, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98127, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:1011-5. 2008.... - Retention in methadone maintenance drug treatment for prescription-type opioid primary users compared to heroin usersCaleb J Banta-Green
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Addiction 104:775-83. 2009..To assess retention in methadone maintenance treatment for prescription-type opioid primary (PTOP) users compared to heroin users... - Diabetes-related utilization and costs for inpatient and outpatient services in the Veterans AdministrationMatthew L Maciejewski
HSR and D Center of Excellence, VA Puget Sound Health Care System Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 27:B69-73. 2004..Trends in utilization across different age and racial groups, as well as total direct inpatient and outpatient costs for 1998, are presented... - Eye disease in veterans with diabetesJames Orcutt
Department of Ophthalmology, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 27:B50-3. 2004..To describe the screening, prevalence, and management of eye disease in veterans cared for by the Veterans Affairs (VA) System... - Race, treatment, and survival of veterans with cancer of the distal esophagus and gastric cardiaJason A Dominitz
Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Department of Surgery, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Washington 98108 1597, USA
Med Care 40:I14-26. 2002..Prior studies have found racial differences in the use of invasive procedures and in cancer survival... - Two brief alcohol-screening tests From the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): validation in a female Veterans Affairs patient populationKatharine A Bradley
Veteran Women s Alcohol Problems Study, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Health Services Research and Development Service, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:821-9. 2003..The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) questions 1 through 3 (AUDIT-C), and AUDIT question 3 alone are effective alcohol-screening tests in male Veterans Affairs (VA) patients, but have not been validated in women... - Use of off-pump and on-pump CABG strategies in current clinical practice: the Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program of the state of WashingtonGabriel S Aldea
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Olympia, WA, USA
J Card Surg 18:206-15; discussion 216. 2003..The purpose of this study is to assess clinical outcomes and regional differences in the use of on-pump and off-pump CABG in current clinical practice... - Effects of ethnicity and nephropathy on lower-extremity amputation risk among diabetic veteransBessie A Young
Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
Diabetes Care 26:495-501. 2003..To describe ethnic differences in the risk of amputation in diabetic patients with diabetic nephropathy... - Winter respiratory viruses and health care use: a population-based study in the northwest United StatesKathleen M Neuzil
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
Clin Infect Dis 37:201-7. 2003..1-1.5) per 1000 low-risk individuals aged 18-49 years, to 10.6 (95% CI, 7.5-13.6) per 1000 high-risk individuals aged >or=65 years. Each year, circulation of influenza and RSV coincide with predictable increases in medical care use... - Effects of cardiac rehabilitation on self-reported health status after coronary artery bypass surgeryJ Richard Goss
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
J Cardiopulm Rehabil 22:410-7. 2002..To examine the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation on health status following coronary artery bypass surgery... - Racial differences in diabetic nephropathy, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in a national population of veteransBessie A Young
Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
Diabetes Care 26:2392-9. 2003..To determine racial differences in the prevalence of diabetic nephropathy, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and risk of mortality in a national health care system... - Posttraumatic stress disorder in female veterans: association with self-reported health problems and functional impairmentDorcas J Dobie
Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:394-400. 2004.... - The epidemiology of lower-extremity disease in veterans with diabetesJennifer A Mayfield
Center of Excellence in Amputation, Prosthetics and Limb Loss Prevention, Rehabilitation, Research and Development, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 27:B39-44. 2004..Age-specific rates of diabetic amputation in veterans are lower than U.S. rates... - The burden of diabetes-associated cardiovascular hospitalizations in Veterans Administration (VA) and non-VA medical facilitiesNicholas L Smith
Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 27:B27-32. 2004..This study examines the relative burden of cardiovascular disease in diabetic and nondiabetic admissions to Veterans Administration (VA) and non-VA hospitals... - Diabetes in nonveterans, veterans, and veterans receiving Department of Veterans Affairs health careGayle E Reiber
Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 27:B3-9. 2004..To compare behavioral risk factors and health and disease characteristics among three groups of adults with diabetes: nonveterans, veterans not receiving Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care, and veterans using VA services... - Diabetes and renal disease in veteransBessie A Young
Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 27:B45-9. 2004..To describe the frequency and sequelae of diabetic renal disease in veterans who receive health care from the Veterans Administration (VA)... - Diabetes in the Department of Veterans AffairsGayle E Reiber
Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 27:B1-2. 2004 - The use of trimodality therapy for the treatment of operable esophageal carcinoma in the veteran population: patient survival and outcome analysisK G Billingsley
Department of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
Cancer 92:1272-80. 2001.... - Causes of chest pain and symptoms suggestive of acute cardiac ischemia in African-American patients presenting to the emergency department: a multicenter studyC Maynard
Department of Medicine, New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 89:665-71. 1997..Despite having less acute cardiac ischemia, African Americans in this study had high risk levels for coronary artery disease... - Screening for post-traumatic stress disorder in female Veteran's Affairs patients: validation of the PTSD checklistDorcas J Dobie
Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 24:367-74. 2002..86 (95% CI 0.82-0.90). A PCL score of 38 optimized the performance of the PCL as a screening test (sensitivity 0.79, specificity 0.79). The PCL performed well as a screening measure for the detection of PTSD in female VA patients... - Predictors of repeat revascularization after nonemergent, first percutaneous coronary intervention in the communityAudrey H Wu
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
Am Heart J 147:146-50. 2004..Results from controlled studies may reasonably be extrapolated to such a community setting... - The prevalence of knee pain and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis among veteran traumatic amputees and nonamputeesDaniel C Norvell
Health Services Research and Development, Seattle, WA, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 86:487-93. 2005..To determine whether amputees have an increased risk of knee pain or symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) compared with nonamputees... - Estimating risk of alcohol dependence using alcohol screening scoresAnna D Rubinsky
Northwest Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 108:29-36. 2010..AUDIT or AUDIT-C scores could be used to estimate the probability of past-year alcohol dependence among patients who screen positive for alcohol misuse and inform clinical decision-making... - Time-dependent predictors of primary cardiac arrest in patients with acute myocardial infarctionHarry P Selker
Center for Cardiovascular Health Services Research, Division of Clinical Care Research, Department of Medicine, Tufts New England Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Am J Cardiol 91:280-6. 2003..Those with prolonged QTc or substantial ST elevation who survive the initial 1.5-hour period are those less susceptible to these risks... - Department of Veterans Affairs compensation and medical care benefits accorded to veterans with major limb lossCharles Maynard
Health Services Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 47:403-8. 2010..A special obligation exists to those who have sustained serious injuries related to combat; this responsibility extends for the life of the servicemember and beyond to his or her spouse and dependents... - Effects of a statewide physician-led quality-improvement program on the quality of cardiac careJ Richard Goss
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Am Heart J 151:1033-42. 2006..Most hospitals that perform coronary revascularization procedures meet acceptable performance standards... - Elevated prevalence of hepatitis C infection in users of United States veterans medical centersJason A Dominitz
Epidemiologic Research and Information Center VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA 98108 1597, USA
Hepatology 41:88-96. 2005..In conclusion, the prevalence of hepatitis C in these subjects exceeds the estimate from the general US population by more than 2-fold, likely reflecting more exposure to traditional risk factors among these veterans... - Servicemembers and veterans with major traumatic limb loss from Vietnam war and OIF/OEF conflicts: survey methods, participants, and summary findingsGayle E Reiber
Health Services Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 47:275-97. 2010..7-fold higher for OIF/OEF than for Vietnam war survey participants. Findings from this cross-conflict survey identify many strengths in prosthetic rehabilitation for those with limb loss and several areas for future attention... - Effects of compensation method on physician behaviorsJ Tufano
University of Washington, Department of Health Services, 1959 NE Pacific St. Room H660, Seattle, WA 98195-7660, USA
Am J Manag Care 7:363-73. 2001..The changing context of medical practice represents another powerful "macro" lever on physician behavior... - The failure of years of experience with electrocardiographic transmission from paramedics to the hospital emergency department to reduce the delay from door to primary coronary intervention below the 90-minute threshold during acute myocardial infarctionCreighton Vaught
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
J Electrocardiol 39:136-41. 2006..CONCLUSION: Initial gains in the time from hospital arrival to percutaneous coronary intervention, attributed to acquisition of the ECG in the prehospital setting, were not sustained over 10 years... - Active surface cooling protocol to induce mild therapeutic hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective before-and-after comparison in a single hospitalCreighton W Don
Departments of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Crit Care Med 37:3062-9. 2009.... - The impact of financial incentives on physician productivity in medical groupsDouglas A Conrad
University of Washington, Department of Health Services, Seattle 98195-7660, USA
Health Serv Res 37:885-906. 2002..The group-level financial incentive does not appear to be significantly related to physician productivity. CONCLUSIONS: Individual physician incentives based on own production do increase physician productivity... - Complementary and alternative medicine use among Veterans Affairs outpatientsMark A Micek
J Altern Complement Med 13:190-3. 2007 - A primer and comparative review of major US mortality databasesDiane C Cowper
Veterans Affairs Information Resource Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Health Service Research and Development Service Resource Center at the Edward Hines, Jr, Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, IL 60141 5000, USA
Ann Epidemiol 12:462-8. 2002.... - The impact of ethnicity on outcomes following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in the Veterans Health AdministrationJohn S Rumsfeld
Cardiology 111B, Denver VA Medical Center, 1055 Clermont Street, Denver, Colorado 80222, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 40:1786-93. 2002..We evaluated the effect of African American (AA) and Hispanic American (HA) ethnicity on mortality and complications following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)... - Electrocardiographic comparison of myocardial salvage with primary revascularization versus thrombolysis in inferior myocardial infarctionMichael P Hudson
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham NC, USA
J Electrocardiol 35:11-8. 2002..PR groups, (38.3% vs. 44.9% respectively, P =.66). Among patients with inferior AMI, myocardial salvage was achieved with both TT and PR therapy and did not differ significantly between reperfusion strategies... - Prediction of the localization of high-risk coronary atherosclerotic plaques on the basis of low endothelial shear stress: an intravascular ultrasound and histopathology natural history studyYiannis S Chatzizisis
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Circulation 117:993-1002. 2008..Our hypothesis was that the lowest values of ESS are responsible for the development of high-risk coronary atherosclerotic plaques associated with excessive expansive remodeling... - Consideration of the total ST-segment deviation on the initial electrocardiogram for predicting final acute posterior myocardial infarct size in patients with maximum ST-segment deviation as depression in leads V1 through V3. A FRISC II substudyRasmus S Ripa
Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
J Electrocardiol 38:180-6. 2005..The formula derived could be valuable for selecting patients who fail to meet strict ST-elevation AMI criteria for emergency intravenous or intracoronary reperfusion therapy... - Prehospital triage of acute myocardial infarction: wireless transmission of electrocardiograms to the on-call cardiologist via a handheld computerPaul T Campbell
NorthEast Medical Center, Concord, NC 27705, USA
J Electrocardiol 38:300-9. 2005.... - Inpatient and follow-up cardiology care and mortality for acute coronary syndrome patients in the Veterans Health AdministrationP Michael Ho
Medical Service, Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
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Heart Centre, Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Cardiol 97:611-6. 2006..Regardless of SigmaST, patients had a lower composite end-point rate with primary coronary angioplasty than with fibrinolysis... - Beware of the"..."Edward M Weaver
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Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Am J Cardiol 98:1160-4. 2006.... - Paramedic transtelephonic communication to cardiologist of clinical and electrocardiographic assessment for rapid reperfusion of ST-elevation myocardial infarctionDavid G Strauss
School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
J Electrocardiol 40:265-70. 2007.... - Clopidogrel and long-term outcomes after stent implantation for acute coronary syndromeP Michael Ho
Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, CO 80220, USA
Am Heart J 154:846-51. 2007..Little is known about the association between clopidogrel use and long-term outcomes after stent implantation for acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in clinical practice... - High-frequency QRS electrocardiogram analysis during exercise stress testing for detecting ischemiaJonathan A Lipton
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Int J Cardiol 124:198-203. 2008..This study compared HFQRS during exercise in patients with and without ischemia as defined by multiple criteria... - Evaluation of advanced electrocardiographic diagnostic software for detection of prior myocardial infarctionGalen S Wagner
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
Am J Cardiol 89:75-9. 2002 - Timing of ischemic onset estimated from the electrocardiogram is better than historical timing for predicting outcome after reperfusion therapy for acute anterior myocardial infarction: a DANish trial in Acute Myocardial Infarction 2 (DANAMI-2) substudyMaria Sejersten
Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am Heart J 154:61.e1-8. 2007.... - The future of STEMI responseJonathan A Lipton
Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
JEMS 31:S8-12. 2006 - Comparison of the ability of paramedics with that of cardiologists in diagnosing ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction in patients with acute chest painMaria Sejersten
Department of Cardiology, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
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