Article-at-a-Glance Background Root cause analysis (RCA) is an analysis framework used in
health care to determine the systemic causes and prevent recurrences of adverse events. It …

Objective: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an important mental health issue in terms
of the number of people affected and the morbidity and functional impairment associated …

Importance Preventable hospitalizations are common among older adults for reasons that
are not well understood. Objective To determine whether Medicare patients with ambulatory …

Objectives. 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. …

BACKGROUND: Both providers and payors bear the financial risk associated with complications
of poor quality care. But the stakeholder who bears the largest burden of this risk has a …

To improve identification of contributors to manuscripts, editors of medical journals have
developed authorship responsibility criteria. Some have specified an acceptable number of …

… (B) Mean number of annual ambulatory visits to medical physicians according to specialty
… (B) Inflation-adjusted mean annual expenditures for ambulatory visits to medical physicians …

Article-at-a-Glance Background A pre–post observational design was used to study the
aggregate results of five national Breakthrough Series (BTS) collaboratives run within Veterans …

Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study of health-related quality-of-life scores using
the 1999 Large Health Survey of Veteran Enrollees (6). That survey used a modification of …

… Weeks, MD, MBA, and David Auerbach, Ph.D.Author Info & Affiliations … William Weeks
on a proposal for shifting VA’s health care role to benefits and coordination. 10m 44s …