• Wang V, Swaminathan S, Corneau EA, Maciejewski ML, Trivedi AN, O'Hare AM, Mor V. Association of VA Payment Reform for Dialysis with Spending, Access to Care, and Outcomes for Veterans with ESKD. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN. 2020 Sep 22.
• Der-Martirosian C, Chu K, Dobalian A. 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. 2020 Apr 13; 1-5.
• Kaboli PJ, Miake-Lye IM, Ruser C, Yano EM, Orshansky G, Rubenstein L, Curtis I, Kirsh S, Hempel S. Sequelae of an Evidence-based Approach to Management for Access to Care in the Veterans Health Administration. Medical care. 2019 Oct 1; 57 Suppl 10 Suppl 3:S213-S220.
• SoRelle R, Shea JA, Shasha B, Keddem S, Long JA, Werner RM. Patient Engagement, Access to Care, and Perceptions of Competing Priorities in the VA Primary Care Setting. Journal of general internal medicine. 2019 Oct 1; 34(10):1971-1972.
• Nguyen KH, Trivedi AN. Asian American Access to Care in the Affordable Care Act Era: Findings from a Population-Based Survey in California. Journal of general internal medicine. 2019 Nov 1; 34(11):2660-2668.

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• VA’s Primary Care-Mental Health Integration Affects Access Differently for Women and Men Veterans
  This study of 5.4 million Veterans (including 448,455 women), who received care at one of 396 VA primary care clinics between FY2013 and FY2016, set out to answer the following question: Did VA’s national Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) initiative improve access to care equally among men and women Veterans? Findings showed that PC-MHI was associated with greater use of all outpatie...
  
  Date: October 20, 2020
• VA Policies to Establish National Dialysis Contracts Reduce Reimbursement Without Compromising Access or Survival
  This study examined whether changes in VA reimbursement and contracting policies were associated with VA spending on dialysis, Veterans’ access to dialysis care, and mortality. Findings showed that VA policies to standardize payment and establish national dialysis contracts increased the value of community dialysis care by reducing costs without compromising access to care or survival. Over the ti...
  
  Date: September 22, 2020
• Nurse Practitioners as Primary Care Providers May Be a High-Value Solution to Increasing Access to Care for All Veterans
  Investigators in this study assessed patient outcomes between primary care nurse practitioners (NPs) and MDs, including utilization, costs, and quality of care – one year after patient reassignment to a new primary care provider (due to a Veteran’s prior MD PCP leaving VA). Findings showed that compared to Veterans newly assigned to MDs, those newly assigned to NPs were less likely to use primary ...
  
  Date: April 1, 2020
• Social Stressors Strongly Associated with Suicide Ideation and Attempt among Veterans
  This study examined documented social stressors in VA’s electronic health record (EHR) and how these stressors were associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempt. Seven types of social stressors were included: 1) experiences of violence, 2) housing instability, 3) employment or financial problems, 4) legal problems, 5) social or familial problems, 6) lack of access to care or transportatio...
  
  Date: November 19, 2019
• Lack of Awareness among VA Providers about Risk Associated with Prescribing Inhaled Corticosteroids to Veterans with COPD
  More than 50% of patients with mild-to-moderate COPD in the U.S. are prescribed inhaled corticosteroids despite recommendations to restrict use to patients with frequent breathing exacerbations. This study explored VA primary care providers’ experiences prescribing inhaled corticosteroids among Veterans with mild-to-moderate COPD. Of the Veterans with COPD in this study cohort, 15% were prescribed...
  
  Date: August 8, 2019

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• Measuring the Value of Improving Access to Community Care || In Progress

  ...a team approach to primary care through Patient Aligned Care Teams or PACTs,...a primary care provider, clinical pharmacist, registered nurse care manager,...skip to page content Talk to the Veterans Crisis Line now An official website...https:// ensures that you're connecting to the official website and that any information

• Improving Care and Access for LGBTQ Veterans || In Progress

  ...health risks and unique challenges in accessing healthcare.2 For example, a recent...79% were satisfied with their medical care, and 69% were satisfied with their mental...skip to page content Talk to the Veterans Crisis Line now An official website...https:// ensures that you're connecting to the official website and that any information

• Improving Care and Access for LGBTQ Veterans || In Progress

  ...health risks and unique challenges in accessing healthcare.2 For example, a recent...79% were satisfied with their medical care, and 69% were satisfied with their mental...skip to page content Talk to the Veterans Crisis Line now An official website...https:// ensures that you're connecting to the official website and that any information

• Forum Summer 2019: Access and the MISSION Act

  ...affects access to care in VA, from MISSION Act eligibility for community care to...meeting the urgent needs of Veterans to the implementation of a more comprehensive...skip to page content Talk to the Veterans Crisis Line now An official website...https:// ensures that you're connecting to the official website and that any information

• Forum Summer 2019: Access and the MISSION Act

  ...affects access to care in VA, from MISSION Act eligibility for community care to...meeting the urgent needs of Veterans to the implementation of a more comprehensive...skip to page content Talk to the Veterans Crisis Line now An official website...https:// ensures that you're connecting to the official website and that any information

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Videos

• Investigator Insights: Virtual Healthcare—Evaluating VA’s Video Connect Program 02/26/20
• Investigator Insights: Using VA Care and and non-VA Care 02/12/20
• The Intersection of Precision Medicine and Health Disparities 01/18/18
• Evaluating Rural Veterans' Experience of Care 11/12/17
• Understanding VA's Healthcare Access Metrics 02/28/17

Podcasts

• Veterans’ Experiences Using both Care in the Community and VA Care 07/27/2020
• Veterans' Voices: A Veteran’s Experience of Working in VA Research 07/06/2020
• Participating in VA Research: A Veteran’s Perspective 05/05/2020
• Veterans' Voices: Otis Kerr and Jim Goodwin 12/02/2019
• Veterans' Voices: Oliver Patrick 11/27/2019
• Expanding Access to Pain Care: Promoting Specialist and Primary Care Provider Networks with SCAN-ECHO 12/20/2018
• Challenges and Opportunities of Shifting Mandates and Culture Associated with the VA’s Implementation of Veteran Access Initiatives 12/20/2018
• Justice Involved Veterans 06/24/2018
• Rural Transition Nurse Program 03/16/2018
• The Veterans Choice Act 06/26/2017

Other Resources

• Learn about the VHA's Priorities for Strategic Action in the area of Veteran Access to care
• Read the QUERI-funded Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center's Policy Brief about how economic and policy effects Veterans' access to care. 
• Learn more about what kinds of research questions are included within the HSR&D Access Portfolio.
• Read about projects to improve access included within the HSR&D Collaborative Research to Enhance and Advance Transformation (CREATE) initiative. 
• Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers