6 results match your criteria: "The Bedford VA Medical Center[Affiliation]"
Objectives: Identify existing research on impacts of transitions between electronic health record (EHR) systems on patients' healthcare experiences.
Methods: Scoping review. We searched MedLine, OVID, Embase, CINAHL, and PsycInfo databases for articles on patient experiences with EHR-to-EHR transitions.
Healthcare Utilization Differences Among Primary Care Patients Using Telemedicine in the Veterans Health Administration: a Retrospective Cohort Study.
J Gen Intern Med
February 2024
Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) at the Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA, USA.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic encouraged telemedicine expansion. Research regarding follow-up healthcare utilization and primary care (PC) telemedicine is lacking.
Objective: To evaluate whether healthcare utilization differed across PC populations using telemedicine.
Understanding rural-urban differences in veterans' internet access, use and patient preferences for telemedicine.
J Rural Health
June 2024
Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), The Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.
Background: The expansion of telemedicine (e.g., telephone or video) in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) raises concerns for health care disparities between rural and urban veterans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTemporary Financial Assistance Decreased Health Care Costs For Veterans Experiencing Housing Instability.
Health Aff (Millwood)
May 2021
Thomas H. Byrne is an investigator at the Bedford VA Medical Center and an assistant professor in the School of Social Work, Boston University, in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Compared with housed people, those experiencing homelessness have longer and more expensive inpatient stays as well as more frequent emergency department visits. Efforts to provide stable housing situations for people experiencing homelessness could reduce health care costs. Through the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program, the Department of Veterans Affairs partners with community organizations to provide temporary financial assistance to veterans who are currently homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProviding Mental Health Care for the Complex Older Veteran: Implications for Social Work Practice.
Health Soc Work
February 2018
Gayle Clark, LICSW, is social worker and director, and Susan Rouse, CNS, is psychiatric nurse clinical specialist, Geriatric Mental Health Outpatient Clinic, VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton, MA. Heather Spangler, LICSW, is senior social worker, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC. Jennifer Moye, PhD, is associate director of education and evaluation, New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System and the Bedford VA Medical Center.
Mental health conditions are underdiagnosed and undertreated in older veterans, as with all older adults. Social workers bring an important perspective to the interdisciplinary team for the care of older veterans with mental health conditions. In this study authors assessed 50 older veterans referred for mental health treatment (mean age = 74.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedication Adherence in a Nationwide Cohort of Veterans Initiating Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to Prevent HIV Infection.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
March 2018
VHA Office of Rural Health Resource Center, Iowa City, IA.
Background: Current guidelines for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection call for long-term, daily use of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC). Little is known about long-term adherence with TDF/FTC prescribed for PrEP in routine clinical practice.
Setting: Veterans Health Administration (VHA) clinics.