Ten years ago, it would have been hard to imagine the publication of an issue of
a scholarly journal dedicated to applying lessons from the transformation of the
United States Department of Veterans Affairs Health System to the renewal of
other countries' national health systems. Yet, with the recent publication of a
dedicated edition of the Canadian journal Healthcare Papers (2005), this actually
happened. Veterans Affairs health care also has been similarly lauded this
past year in the lay press, being described as ‘the best care anywhere’ in the
Washington Monthly, and described as ‘top-notch healthcare’ in US News
and World Report's annual health care issue enumerating the ‘Top 100
Hospitals’ in the United States (Longman, 2005; Gearon, 2005).
PDB18 ASSESSMENT OF THE HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION AND ECONOMIC BURDEN ON DIABETES PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN THE US VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION POPULATION
