Abstract: Background: Meditation, including Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI), is a required Complementary and Integrative Health intervention at the US Department of Veterans …
Abstract: Peyronie’s Disease, which is known to have racial/ethnic disparities in the general population, has never been studied in the veteran population. We compared the …
Abstract: Patient experience is considered an important dimension of health care quality and thus is included as part of the quadruple aim of health care. The VHA Clinical …
Abstract: Over the last two decades of long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the media’s attention on military veterans in the UK has been characterized by a series of shifts: from …
Abstract: Objective: This study was the first to examine the characteristics and referral outcomes for veterans calling the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans (NCCHV). …
Abstract: This document provides a review of the finances and support provided by SSAFA - The Armed Forces Charity in 2021. Particular attention is given to the services provided …
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common sequela to military sexual trauma (MST) among women veterans. Yoga has shown promise in research examining …
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: African Americans (AAs) experience disparities in chronic pain care. This study aimed to identify the rates of emergency department (ED) utilization for …
Abstract: An aging veteran population with a median age of 65, their inferior health status, and the rapidly growing number of women veterans propel veterans affairs (VA) hospitals …
Abstract: Many American military personnel who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will need long-term management of war-related conditions. There is pressing need for …
Abstract: Importance: Medicare hospice beneficiaries discontinue disease-modifying treatments because the hospice benefit limits access. While veterans have concurrent access to …
Abstract: Introduction: In 2019, the Veteran’s Health Administration began its journey in pursuit of becoming an enterprise-wide High Reliability Organization (HRO). Improving …