• Marra AR, Puig-Asensio M, Balkenende E, Livorsi DJ, Goto M, Perencevich EN. Antibiotic use during end-of-life care: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2020 Nov 11; 1-7.
• Feder SL, Tate J, Ersek M, Krishnan S, Chaudhry SI, Bastian LA, Rolnick J, Kutney-Lee A, Akgün KM. The Association Between Hospital End-of-Life Care Quality and the Care Received Among Patients With Heart Failure. Journal of pain and symptom management. 2020 Sep 12.
• Suwanabol PA, Vitous CA, Perumalswami CR, Li SH, Raja N, Dillon BR, Lee CW, Forman J, Silveira MJ. Surgery Residents' Experiences With Seriously-Ill and Dying Patients: An Opportunity to Improve Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Journal of surgical education. 2020 Feb 14; 77(3):582-597.
• Carpenter JG, Ersek M, Nelson F, Kinder D, Wachterman M, Smith D, Murray A, Garrido MM. A National Study of End-of-Life Care among Older Veterans with Hearing and Vision Loss. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2020 Apr 1; 68(4):817-825.
• Bickel KE, Kennedy R, Levy C, Burgio KL, Bailey FA. The Relationship of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder to End-of-life Care Received by Dying Veterans: a Secondary Data Analysis. Journal of general internal medicine. 2020 Feb 1; 35(2):505-513.

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• Surgical Patients Less Likely to Receive Hospice or Palliative Care Compared to Medical Patients
  This study examined the use of end-of-life care in the VA healthcare system among surgical and medical patients at the end of life. Findings showed that VA surgical patients were less likely to receive either hospice or palliative care in the year prior to death compared with medical patients (38% vs. 41%, respectively). This difference also was present in a separate analysis of palliative care (3...
  
  Date: September 24, 2014
• Disease-Specific Differences in End-of-Life Treatment of Seriously Ill Veterans of Different Ethnic and Racial Backgrounds
  Differences in the level of end-of-life treatments were disease-specific and not based on race and/or ethnicity. In addition, increased end-of-life care for minorities was most pronounced in veterans with dementia, and non-cancer patients received more invasive care than patients with cancer or dementia, independent of their race or ethnicity....
  
  Date: September 1, 2008

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• Forum Fall 2017: Role of Nurses in Managing Care

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• Working to End Homelessness among Veterans || In Progress

  ...improve integrated care among Veterans, in addition to descriptions of several additional...homeless Veterans and mitigate the risk of homelessness, especially in how VA can...Crisis Line now An official website of the United States government Here's how...official. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive

• Working to End Homelessness among Veterans || In Progress

  ...improve integrated care among Veterans, in addition to descriptions of several additional...homeless Veterans and mitigate the risk of homelessness, especially in how VA can...Crisis Line now An official website of the United States government Here's how...official. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive

• Improving Cancer Care || In Progress

  ...soon expected to be the leading cause of death in the United States. More than...000 people die of the disease every year. By 2020, the number of new cancer cases...Crisis Line now An official website of the United States government Here's how...official. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive

• Palliative Care for Homeless Veterans || In Progress

  ...improve integrated care among Veterans, in addition to descriptions of several additional...homeless Veterans and mitigate the risk of homelessness, especially in how VA can...Crisis Line now An official website of the United States government Here's how...official. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive

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