Improving primary care access for rural women Veterans: the Boost Team.

Objectives: To improve healthcare access for rural cisgender women and gender diverse Veterans, we created the "Boost Team," a clinician-driven telehealth outreach service to connect this population to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) services.

Methods: Between 9/2021 and 2/2022, we conducted a needs assessment in the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 21 and used those data to develop an outreach intervention. We piloted a clinician-led outreach intervention in 3/2022, and formally deployed an outreach team in 9/2022.

Associations Between Demographic, Clinical, and Symptom Characteristics and Stress in Oncology Patients Receiving Chemotherapy.

Background: Patients undergoing cancer treatment experience global stress and cancer-specific stress. Both types of stress are associated with a higher symptom burden.

Objective: In this cross-sectional study, we used a comprehensive set of demographic, clinical, and symptom characteristics to evaluate their relative contribution to the severity of global and cancer-specific stress.