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..Although pharmacological treatments are available for patients with schizophrenia, there is a lack of systematic and comprehensive evaluation of health outcomes following the initiation of atypical antipsychotic agents...

..Because EPS are often associated with the use of antipsychotics, anticholinergic agents are often indicated...

..Future research needs to determine the reasons for those differences...

..The treatment of schizophrenia is therefore particularly important to reduce deficits across a large number of neurocognitive domains...

..Disease-specific attribution is an important alternative to the development of new disease-specific instruments for assessing illness severity and the impact of clinical services...

..Although clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy of atypical antipsychotic agents in reducing symptoms of schizophrenia, the likelihood of sustaining control of schizophrenic symptoms may depend on treatment persistence...

..Compliance with antihypertensive medications is essential to the clinical management of hypertension. Poor compliance with antihypertensive medications has often been associated with treatment failure and disease progression...

..It can be used as a case-mix adjustment in evaluating health outcomes and in predicting future utilization of health services...

..More research is needed for a better understanding of the dynamic relationship between health status and satisfaction with care...

..Future epidemiological and health services research should consider both measures in assessing the impact of LBP on patient functional status, low back disability, and use of diagnostic imaging...

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..This simultaneous focus on multiple support functions and health outcomes is important because it provides insight into the mechanisms linking social support to health...

..70 criterion for all scales except Social Functioning. Reliability estimates also appeared to vary by sample characteristics. We discuss the implications of these findings and identify where further work will be required...

..Longitudinal data from the Veterans Health Study, an observational study of male patients receiving Veterans Administration ambulatory care, were analyzed...

..We analyzed data from the Veterans Health Study, a longitudinal study of male patients receiving VA ambulatory care...

..It may be useful in studies of health outcomes, in clinical trials, and in predicting demands on health care resources...

..We examined whether a clinically credible risk adjustment methodology for the outcome of change in health status can be developed for performance assessment of integrated service networks...

..We examined whether racial differences in mortality rates exist among patients receiving outpatient care within the Veterans Health Administration...

..Information on the health status of centenarians provides a means for understanding the health care needs of this growing population. Therefore, we examined the health status of a national cohort of centenarian veteran enrollees...

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..The quality of outpatient medical care is increasingly recognized as having an important impact on mortality. We examined whether a clinically credible risk adjustment methodology can be developed for outpatient quality assessments...

..To examine the health status of elderly veteran enrollees, stratified by age group, and compare with nonveteran populations...

..Treatment guidelines affect evaluation. Second-line medications are usually prescribed to patients with higher utilization...

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..We compared the Medicare Advantage Program (MAP) and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) with regard to changes in health status and mortality...

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..The methods and batteries developed in the VHS are in the public domain and provide a framework for future patient monitoring using standard measures of health...

..Additional work needs to test these improvements in other populations and to expand the analysis to track the responsiveness of the modified scales to clinically and socially important changes over time...

..Based upon the rich foundation provided by the VHS methodology, the VA has implemented some of these approaches as part of its quality monitoring system and can serve as a model for other large integrated systems of care...

..As comorbid psychiatric disorders are often associated with poorer treatment outcome, findings also provide strong corroboration for the importance of treating other psychiatric disorders concurrently with alcohol dependence...

..The gains in precision for the Veterans SF-36 provide evidence for the use of this version in future applications for assessing patient outcomes across health care systems...

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..It can be administered to large patient populations at relatively low cost. This method may be particularly valuable for clinicians and researchers interested in population-based studies, case-mix adjustment, and clinical trials...

..The Health Outcomes Burn Questionnaire for Infants and Children 5 years of age and younger is a clinically based reliable and valid assessment tool that is sensitive to change over time for assessing burn outcomes in this age group...

..We sought to determine whether disparities in health-related quality of life exist between veterans who live in rural settings and their suburban or urban counterparts...

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