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Comparison of use of medications after acute myocardial infarction in the Veterans Health Administration and Medicare.
Circulation
December 2001
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, a Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston VAMedical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Background: There is concern that care provided in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) may be of poorer quality than non-VA health care. We compared use of medications after acute myocardial infarction in the VA with that in non-VA healthcare settings under fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare financing.
Methods And Results: We used clinical data from 2486 VA and 29 249 FFS men >65 years old discharged with a confirmed diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction from 81 VA hospitals and 1530 non-VA hospitals.