United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Evaluating and Comparing Approaches to Measuring Quality of Postdischarge Mental Health Outpatient Follow-Up Care

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate whether measures of follow-up mental health and substance use care (behavioral health) within 30 days provide signals of quality associated with longer-term positive outcomes and whether a national U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) p...

2-Hydroxybenzylamine acetate (2-HOBA) in rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized phase 2 clinical trial

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased oxidative stress, which may contribute to inflammation and elevated blood pressure. 2-hydroxybenzylamine acetate (2-HOBA) scavenges reactive downstream oxidative stress products, including isolevuglandins (IsoLGs), which cova...

Real‐Life Psychological Experiences and Cardiac Autonomic Physiology Among Survivors of a Myocardial Infarction in Midlife

Abstract Middle-aged women with ischemic heart disease have a higher burden of psychosocial factors compared with male counterparts. Data on daily life stress and autonomic physiology could help guide targeted interventions. We studied 302 individuals ≤ 61 years of age (129 women...

Who is eligible for lung cancer screening, and where are they? National subpopulation estimates of people eligible for lung cancer screening

BACKGROUND: The utilization of lung cancer screening services is less than 20%. There are a myriad of barriers at the patient, provider, and health care system levels that account for such low uptake. One reason lung cancer screening rates remain low is that identifying who is el...

Radiology considerations for the PREMIUM study: a multicenter randomized controlled trial of abbreviated MRI versus ultrasound for liver cancer screening in cirrhosis

Abstract This paper describes the rationale and radiology considerations in the implementation of the Preventing Liver Cancer Mortality through Imaging with Ultrasound versus MRI (PREMIUM) study. PREMIUM is a multicenter, randomized controlled trial sponsored by the Department of...