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This Issue: Ensuring High-Quality Care
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Table of Contents: Fall 2016
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In This Issue: Ensuring High-Quality Care
From the Acting Chief Research and Development Officer
VA's need to improve Veterans' access to timely and high-quality care has been much in the news lately. In August, Secretary
Bob McDonald
told the American Legion at its national convention that "more Veterans are coming to VA for care, and waiting less time." In his
speech
, the Secretary said that in 2015, Veterans had nearly 4 million more appointments than in 2014. Almost 57 million of those appointments were in VA facilities, and more than 16.8 million were for VA care in communities. ...
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New Initiatives
New research center opens in New Orleans
The new
New Orleans VA Medical Center
, built to replace one made unusable during Hurricane Katrina, opened Nov. 18, 2016. Among the features of the new medical center is an entire building dedicated to research. Located in a building formerly used to brew Dixie beer, the 100,000 square-foot structure is designed mainly for biomedical research...
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Funding for new suicide studies
VA's
Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development
(BLR&D),
Clinical Science Research and Development
(CSR&D), and
Health Services Research and Development
(HSR&D;) services have issued Requests for Applications (RFAs) from VA researchers for projects focused on the prevention of suicide and the treatment of suicidality in Veterans...
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Exploring precision medicine for depression
VA Health Services Research and Development and VA's
Genomic Medicine Implementation
and QUERI programs are funding a study of precision medicine's role in improving treatment for Veterans with major depressive disorder. The initiative, titled PRIME care (PRecision medicine in MEntal health care), will be led by
Dr. David Oslin
of the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia...
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A Chat with Our Experts
Health disparities among LGBT Veterans
Dr. John R. Blosnich
is a research health scientist with the
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
at the VA Pittsburgh Health Care System, and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. His research focuses on interpersonal and self-directed violence among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. His VA work focuses on LGBT Veterans, with particular attention to suicide risk...
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Spotlight on Career Development awardees
Improving services for homeless Veterans
Dr. Jack Tsai
is a clinical psychologist at the
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
and an investigator for VA's
New England Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)
and
Pain Research, Informatics, Medical Comorbidities and Education (PRIME)
Center. His work involves addressing the needs of homeless populations, improving understanding of PTSD and recovery from the condition, and evaluating psychosocial services for adults with severe mental illness. His
HSR&D Career Development Award
focuses on improving services for homeless Veterans...
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Noteworthy Publications
Leveraging estrogen for cardiovascular and overall health
Dr.
Ellis Levin
, a clinician scientist at the VA Long Beach Health Care System, and his colleagues published a
study
in the Oct. 15, 2016, issue of Molecular and Cell Endocrinology that showed the ability of ERβ, a protein that binds with estrogen, to neutralize a hormone called angiotensin II, a known cause of high blood pressure and heart damage...
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Diabetes drug shows effectiveness against chronic liver disease
A drug currently used to treat diabetes can also be used to halt the progression nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a disease that is a leading cause of liver transplants, according a three-year clinical
trial
by researchers at the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida...
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Disparities between rural and urban Veterans
Rural women Veterans have significantly worse physical health functioning than urban women Veterans, according to a
study
in the Journal of Rural Health...
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Lack of internet access can impede efforts to quit smoking
A
study
by the VA Mid-Atlantic Region Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center and the VA Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care points to racial and sociodemographic disparities in internet access that can undermine Veterans' efforts to quit smoking...
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Comparing VA and Medicare Advantage quality
VA's quality performance was significantly better than that reported by
Medicare Advantage
plans for each of 12 nationally-recognized measures of quality, according to a
study
in the March 31, 2016, issue of Inquiry...
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See also:
Other Recent Publications of Interest
In the News
Deaths and complications from surgery decline at VA facilities
MVP program highlighted
Study of aortic valve disease begins
Lean processes cut wait times
VA in project to reduce hospital readmissions
Honorable Mentions
Bender receives top paper award from American Heart Association
Rubenstein receives Society of General Internal Medicine award
Two VA researchers recognized by American College of Rheumatology
Mor cited by Gerontology Society of America
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