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Albanese, A. P., Bope, E. T., Sanders, K. M., & Bowman, M. (2020). The VA MISSION Act of 2018: A potential game changer for rural GME expansion and veteran health care. The Journal of Rural Health, 36(1), 133–136. https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12360 

Alore, E. A., Massarweh, N. N., Ramsey, D. J., Chen, L., Chai, C. Y., Singh, H., & Makris, K. I. (2020). Variation in surgical management of primary hyperparathyroidism in the US Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system: A 15-year observational study. Surgery, 168(5), 838–844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2020.05.018

Aronson, K. R., Perkins, D. F., Morgan, N. R., Bleser, J. A., Vogt, D., Copeland, L. A., Finley, E. P., & Gilman, C. L. (2020). Use of health services among post-9/11 veterans with mental health conditions within 90 days of separation from the military. Psychiatric Services, 71(7), 670–677. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900326

Ayele, R. A., Lawrence, E., McCreight, M., Fehling, K., Glasgow, R. E., Rabin, B. A., Burke, R. E., & Battaglia, C. (2020). Perspectives of clinicians, staff, and veterans in transitioning veterans from non-VA hospitals to primary care in a single VA healthcare system. Journal of Hospital Medicine, 15(3), 133–139. https://doi.org/10.12788/jhm.3320

Bailey, D. N. (2020). The Veterans Affairs healthcare system and academic pathology departments: Evaluation of the relationship. Academic Pathology, 7, 2374289520939265. https://doi.org/10.1177/2374289520939265

Barnett, P. G., Jacobs, J. C., Jarvik, J. G., Chou, R., Boothroyd, D., Lo, J., & Nevedal, A. (2020). Assessment of primary care clinician concordance with guidelines for use of magnetic resonance imaging in patients with nonspecific low back pain in the Veterans Affairs health system. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e2010343–e2010343. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.10343

Blosnich, J. R., Montgomery, A. E., Taylor, L. D., & Dichter, M. E. (2020). Adverse social factors and all-cause mortality among male and female patients receiving care in the Veterans Health Administration. Preventive Medicine, 141, 106272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106272

Bokhour, B. G., Haun, J. N., Hyde, J., Charns, M., & Kligler, B. (2020). Transforming the Veterans Affairs to a whole health system of care: Time for action and research. Medical Care, 58(4), 295–300. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001316

Bossick, A. S., Katon, J. G., Gray, K. E., Ma, E. W., & Callegari, L. S. (2020). Concomitant bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy at hysterectomy: Differences by race and menopausal status in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System, 2007–2014. Journal of Women’s Health, 29(12), 1513–1519. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2020.8503

Brunner, J., Cain, C. L., Yano, E. M., & Hamilton, A. B. (2019). Local leaders’ perspectives on women veterans’ health care: What would ideal look like? Women’s Health Issues, 29(1), 64–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2018.10.005

Buehrle, D. J., Shively, N. R., Wagener, M. M., Clancy, C. J., & Decker, B. K. (2020). Sustained reductions in overall and unnecessary antibiotic prescribing at primary care clinics in a Veterans Affairs healthcare system following a multifaceted stewardship intervention. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71(8), e316–e322. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz1180

Burke, R. E., Canamucio, A., Glorioso, T. J., Barón, A. E., & Ryskina, K. L. (2020). Variability in transitional care outcomes across hospitals discharging veterans to skilled nursing facilities. Medical Care, 58(4), 301–306. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001282

Burtin, O. (2020). The history of veterans’ policy in the United States. Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 45(2), 239–260. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/26897907

Carlozzi, N. E., Lange, R. T., French, L. M., Kallen, M. A., Boileau, N. R., Hanks, R. A., Nakase-Richardson, R., Massengale, J. P., Sander, A. M., Hahn, E. A., Miner, J. A., & Brickell, T. A. (2020). TBI-CareQOL military health care frustration in caregivers of service members/veterans with traumatic brain injury. Rehabilitation Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/rep0000305

Caver, K. A., Shearer, E. M., Burks, D. J., Perry, K., Paul, N. F. D., McGinn, M. M., & Felker, B. L. (2020). Telemental health training in the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 76(6), 1108–1124. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22797

Coleman, B. C., Fodeh, S., Lisi, A. J., Goulet, J. L., Corcoran, K. L., Bathulapalli, H., & Brandt, C. A. (2020). Exploring supervised machine learning approaches to predicting Veterans Health Administration chiropractic service utilization. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 28(1), 47. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-020-00335-4

Connolly, S. L., Stolzmann, K. L., Heyworth, L., Weaver, K. R., Bauer, M. S., & Miller, C. J. (2020). Rapid increase in telemental health within the Department of Veterans Affairs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine and E-Health. https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0233

Der-Martirosian, C., Chu, K., & Dobalian, A. (2020). Use of telehealth to improve access to care at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.88

Dimcheff, D. E., Schildhouse, R. J., Hausman, M. S., Vincent, B. M., Markovitz, E., Chensue, S. W., Deng, J., McLeod, M., Hagan, D., Russell, J., & Bradley, S. F. (2020). Seroprevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among Veterans Affairs healthcare system employees suggests higher risk of infection when exposed to SARS-CoV-2 outside the work environment. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1220

Dursa, E. K., Tadesse, B. E., Carter, C. E., Culpepper, W. J., Schneiderman, A. I., & Rumm, P. D. (2020). Respiratory illness among Gulf War and Gulf War era veterans who use the Department of Veterans Affairs for healthcare. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 63(11), 980–987. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23172

Eliacin, J., Matthias, M. S., Cunningham, B., & Burgess, D. J. (2020). Veterans’ perceptions of racial bias in VA mental healthcare and their impacts on patient engagement and patient-provider communication. Patient Education and Counseling, 103(9), 1798–1804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2020.03.017

Elliott, B., Chargualaf, K. A., & Patterson, B. (2020). Veteran-centered care in education and practice: An essential guide for nursing faculty. Springer Publishing Company.

Etingen, B., Amante, D. J., Martinez, R. N., Smith, B. M., Shimada, S. L., Richardson, L., Patterson, A., Houston, T. K., Frisbee, K. L., & Hogan, T. P. (2020). Supporting the implementation of connected care technologies in the Veterans Health Administration: Cross-sectional survey findings from the veterans engagement with technology collaborative (VET-C) cohort. Journal of Participatory Medicine, 12(3), e21214. https://doi.org/10.2196/21214

Evans, C. T., Fitzpatrick, M., Ramanathan, S., Kralovic, S. M., Burns, S. P., Goldstein, B., Smith, B., Gerding, D. N., & Johnson, S. (2020). Healthcare facility-onset, healthcare facility-associated clostridioides difficile infection in veterans with spinal cord injury and disorder. The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 43(5), 642–652. https://doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2019.1672953

Farmer, C. C., Rossi, F. S., Michael, E. M., & Kimerling, R. (2020). Psychotherapy utilization, preferences, and retention among women veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Women’s Health Issues, 30(5), 366–373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2020.06.003

Foster, M., Albanese, C., Chen, Q., Sethares, K. A., Evans, S., Lehmann, L. S., Spencer, J., & Joseph, J. (2020). Heart failure dashboard design and validation to improve care of veterans. Applied Clinical Informatics, 11(1), 153–159. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1701257

Fried, D., McAndrew, L. M., Helmer, D. A., Markowitz, S., & Quigley, K. S. (2020). Interrelationships between symptom burden and health functioning and health care utilization among veterans with persistent physical symptoms. BMC Family Practice, 21(1), 124. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01193-y

Fudim, M., Carlisle, M. A., Devaraj, S., Ajam, T., Ambrosy, A. P., Pokorney, S. D., Al‐Khatib, S. M., & Kamalesh, M. (2020). One-year mortality after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement within the Veterans Affairs health system. European Journal of Heart Failure, 22(5), 859–867. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1755

Gupta, S., & Federman, D. G. (2020). Hospital preparedness for COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from department of medicine at Veterans Affairs Connecticut healthcare system. Postgraduate Medicine, 132(6), 489–494. https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.2020.1761668

Hale-Gallardo, J. L., Kreider, C. M., Jia, H., Castaneda, G., Freytes, I. M., Cowper Ripley, D. C., Ahonle, Z. J., Findley, K., & Romero, S. (2020). Telerehabilitation for rural veterans: A qualitative assessment of barriers and facilitators to implementation. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 13, 559–570. https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S247267

Haun, J. N., Tomoyasu, N., Paolicelli, C., Melillo, C., & Atkins, D. (2020). High-risk, high-impact health services research: Developing an innovation initiative. Journal of Veterans Studies, 6(1), 171–177. https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v6i1.169

Hausmann, L. R. M., Jones, A. L., McInnes, S. E., & Zickmund, S. L. (2020). Identifying healthcare experiences associated with perceptions of racial/ethnic discrimination among veterans with pain: A cross-sectional mixed methods survey. Plos One, 15(9), e0237650. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237650

Huang, Q., Borra, S., Li, J., Wang, L., Shrestha, S., Sundaram, M., & Janjan, N. (2020). Time to next treatment, health care resource utilization, and costs associated with ibrutinib use among U.S. veterans with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma: A real-world retrospective analysis. Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, 26(10), 1266–1275. https://doi.org/10.18553/jmcp.2020.20095

Jackson, G. L., Cutrona, S. L., White, B. S., Reardon, C. M., Orvek, E., Nevedal, A. L., Lindquist, J., Gifford, A. L., White, L., King, H. A., DeLaughter, K., Houston, T. K., Henderson, B., Vega, R., Kilbourne, A. M., & Damschroder, L. J. (2020). Merging implementation practice and science to scale up promising practices: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Diffusion of Excellence (DoE) Program. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2020.11.014

Jia, X., Ramsey, D. J., Rifai, M. A., Ahmed, S. T., Akeroyd, J. M., Dixon, D. L., Gluckman, T. J., Nambi, V., Ballantyne, C. M., Petersen, L. A., Stone, N. J., & Virani, S. S. (2020). Impact of lipid monitoring on treatment intensification of cholesterol lowering therapies (from the Veterans Affairs healthcare system). The American Journal of Cardiology, 125(6), 874–879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2019.12.030

Kullgren, J. T., Fagerlin, A., & Kerr, E. A. (2020). Completing the MISSION: A blueprint for helping veterans make the most of new choices. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(5), 1567–1570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05404-w

Lee, A. A., Heisler, M., Trivedi, R., Leukel, P., Mor, M. K., & Rosland, A.-M. (2020). Autonomy support from informal health supporters: Links with self-care activities, healthcare engagement, metabolic outcomes, and cardiac risk among veterans with type 2 diabetes. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-020-00196-5

Leung, L. B., Rubenstein, L. V., Post, E. P., Trivedi, R. B., Hamilton, A. B., Yoon, J., Jaske, E., & Yano, E. M. (2020). Association of Veterans Affairs primary care mental health integration with care access among men and women veterans. JAMA Network Open, 3(10), e2020955. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20955

Loeb, S., Byrne, N. K., Wang, B., Makarov, D. V., Becker, D., Wise, D. R., Lepor, H., & Walter, D. (2020). Exploring variation in the use of conservative management for low-risk prostate cancer in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system. European Urology, 77(6), 683–686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2020.02.004

Lum, H. D., Nearing, K., Pimentel, C. B., Levy, C. R., & Hung, W. W. (2020). Anywhere to anywhere: Use of telehealth to increase health care access for older, rural veterans. Public Policy & Aging Report, 30(1), 12–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/prz030

Martinez, R. N., Smith, B. M., French, D. D., Hogan, T. P., Gonzalez, B., Osteen, C. M., Hatch, M., Anderson, V., Tarlov, E., Silva, A., Goldstein, B., & Stroupe, K. T. (2020). Effect of the Affordable Care Act on healthcare utilization for veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders. The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2020.1829419

Massarweh, N. N., Itani, K. M. F., & Morris, M. S. (2020). The VA MISSION Act and the future of veterans’ access to quality health care. JAMA, 324(4), 343–344. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.4505

McFarland, M. S., Nelson, J., Ourth, H., Groppi, J., & Morreale, A. (2020). Optimizing the primary care clinical pharmacy specialist: Increasing patient access and quality of care within the Veterans Health Administration. JACCP: Journal of The American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 3(2), 494–500. https://doi.org/10.1002/jac5.1177

Min, L., Ha, J.-K., Hofer, T. P., Sussman, J., Langa, K., Cushman, W. C., Tinetti, M., Kim, H. M., Maciejewski, M. L., Gillon, L., Larkin, A., Chan, C.-L., & Kerr, E. (2020). Validation of a health system measure to capture intensive medication treatment of hypertension in the Veterans Health Administration. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e205417–e205417. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.5417

Montgomery, A. E., Rahman, F. A. K. M., Cusack, M., Varley, A., & Byrne, T. (2020). Correlates of transitions into housing instability among veterans accessing Veterans Health Administration health care. Medical Care, 58(12), 1105–1110. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001416

Montgomery, A. E., Tsai, J., & Blosnich, J. R. (2020). Demographic correlates of veterans’ adverse social determinants of health. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 59(6), 828–836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2020.05.024

Morgan, F., Belal, M., Lisa, B., Ford, F., LeMaitre, B., & Psevdos, G. (2020). Antimicrobial stewardship program achieved marked decrease in clostridium difficile infections in a veterans hospital. American Journal of Infection Control, 48(9), 1119–1121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2019.12.023

Muir, S. D., de Boer, K., Nedeljkovic, M., & Meyer, D. (2020). Barriers and facilitators of videoconferencing psychotherapy implementation in veteran mental health care environments: A systematic review. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 999. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05858-3

Norona, J. C., Borsari, B., Armstrong, K., & Shonkwiler, S. (2020). Veterans’ treatment engagement and dropout from couple and family therapy in a Veterans Affairs health care system. Military Behavioral Health, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/21635781.2020.1864526

Parizo, J. T., Kohsaka, S., Sandhu, A. T., Patel, J., & Heidenreich, P. A. (2020). Trends in readmission and mortality rates following heart failure hospitalization in the Veterans Affairs health care system from 2007 to 2017. JAMA Cardiology, 5(9), 1042–1047. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.2028

Powell, L., Sittig, D. F., Chrouser, K., & Singh, H. (2020). Assessment of health information technology–related outpatient diagnostic delays in the US Veterans Affairs health care system: A qualitative study of aggregated root cause analysis data. JAMA Network Open, 3(6), e206752. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.6752

Richard-Eaglin, A., Campbell, J. G., & Utley-Smith, Q. (2020). The aging veteran population: Promoting awareness to influence best practices. Geriatric Nursing, 41(4), 505–507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2020.06.006

Roberts, T. J., Ringler, T., Krahn, D., & Ahearn, E. (2020). The My Life, My Story program: Sustained impact of veterans’ personal narratives on healthcare providers 5 years after implementation. Health Communication, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1719316

Shelton, C. J., Kim, A., Hassan, A. M., Bhat, A., Barnello, J., & Castro, C. A. (2020). System-wide implementation of telehealth to support military veterans and their families in response to COVID-19: A paradigm shift. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 6(S2), 50–57. https://doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh-CO19-0003

Shiner, B., Peltzman, T., Cornelius, S. L., Gui, J., Forehand, J., & Watts, B. V. (2020). Recent trends in the rural–urban suicide disparity among veterans using VA health care. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-020-00176-9

Shivakumar, G., Kroll-Desrosiers, A. R., Copeland, L., Anderson, E. H., Maydon, A., & Mattocks, K. (2020). Patterns of treatment utilization across the perinatal period in the center for maternal and infant outcomes and research in translation (COMFORT) veterans study. Journal of Women’s Health. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2020.8435

Silva, A., Tarlov, E., Gonzalez, B., Smith, B. M., French, D. D., Hogan, T. P., Jordan, N., Huo, Z., Martinez, R. N., Ippolito, D., & Stroupe, K. T. (2020). Did the Affordable Care Act decrease veteran enrollment in the Veterans Health Administration? Medical Care, 58(8), 703–709. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001348

Sullivan, J. L., Davila, H. W., & Rosen, A. K. (2020). The changing dynamics of providing health care to older veterans in the 21st century: How do we best serve those who have borne the battle? Public Policy & Aging Report, 30(1), 3–5. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/prz028

Swamy, L., Mohr, D., Blok, A., Anderson, E., Charns, M., Wiener, R.S., & Rinne, S. (2020). Impact of workplace climate on burnout among critical care nurses in the Veterans Health Administration. American Journal of Critical Care (29)5, 380–89. https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2020831.

Than, C., Chuang, E., Washington, D.L., Needleman, J., Canelo, I., Meredith, S.F., & Yano, E.M. (2020). Understanding gender sensitivity of the health care workforce at the Veterans Health Administration. Women’s Health Issues (30)2, 120–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2020.01.001.

Valenstein, M., Walters, H., Pfeiffer, P. N., Ganoczy, D., Ilgen, M. A., Miller, M. J., Fiorillo, M., & Bossarte, R. M. (2020). Possession of household firearms and firearm-related discussions with clinicians among veterans receiving VA mental health care. Archives of Suicide Research, 24(S1), 260–279. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2019.1572555

Vassy, J. L., Lu, B., Ho, Y.-L., Galloway, A., Raghavan, S., Honerlaw, J., Tarko, L., Russo, J., Qazi, S., Orkaby, A. R., Tanukonda, V., Djousse, L., Gaziano, J. M., Gagnon, D. R., Cho, K., & Wilson, P. W. F. (2020). Estimation of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk among patients in the Veterans Affairs Health care system. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e208236. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.8236

Vaughn, V. M., Saint, S., Greene, M. T., Ratz, D., Fowler, K. E., Patel, P. K., & Krein, S. L. (2020). Trends in health care–associated infection prevention practices in US Veterans Affairs hospitals from 2005 to 2017. JAMA Network Open, 3(2), e1920464–e1920464. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.20464

Vest, B. M., Kulak, J. A., Homish, D. L., Hoopsick, R. A., & Homish, G. G. (2020). Mental and physical health factors related to dual use of Veterans Affairs and non-Veterans Affairs healthcare among U.S. reserve soldiers. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2020.1828945

Ward, C. J., Cope, M. R., & Jackson, J. (2020). Healthcare access among older rural women veterans in Utah*. Rural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12347

Wilmoth, J. M., London, A. S., & Landes, S. D. (2020). A population-based perspective on health care for U.S. veterans. Public Policy & Aging Report, 30(1), 6–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/prz031

Yoon, J., Leung, L. B., Rubenstein, L. V., Rose, D. E., Stockdale, S. E., Kaboli, P. J., & Chow, A. (2020). Use of the Veterans’ Choice Program and attrition from veterans health administration primary care. Medical Care, 58(12), 1091–1097. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001401

Zamora, K. A., Abraham, T. H., Koenig, C. J., Hill, C. C., Pyne, J. M., & Seal, K. H. (2020). Using an adapted case study approach to understand rural veteran experiences in patient engagement and patient-centered care research. Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare, 4(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2020.8977