scholarly journals Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization — Five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, United States, February 1–August 6, 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina L. Bajema ◽  
Rebecca M. Dahl ◽  
Mila M. Prill ◽  
Elissa Meites ◽  
Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

scholarly journals Vital Signs: Trends in Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers — United States, 2005–2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (9) ◽  
pp. 220-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makoto Jones ◽  
John A. Jernigan ◽  
Martin E. Evans ◽  
Gary A. Roselle ◽  
Kelly M. Hatfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Staphylococcus Aureus ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

scholarly journals Adapting the Surveillance Platform for Enteric and Respiratory Infectious Organisms at United States Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (SUPERNOVA) for COVID-19 Among Hospitalized Adults: Surveillance Protocol

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elissa Meites ◽  
Kristina L. Bajema ◽  
Anita Kambhampati ◽  
Mila Prill ◽  
Vincent C. Marconi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Invasive Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Acute Respiratory Illness ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

Introduction: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rapidly initiated COVID-19 surveillance by leveraging existing hospital networks to assess disease burden among hospitalized inpatients and inform prevention efforts.Materials and Methods: The Surveillance Platform for Enteric and Respiratory Infectious Organisms at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (SUPERNOVA) is a network of five United States Veterans Affairs Medical Centers which serves nearly 400,000 Veterans annually and conducts laboratory-based passive and active monitoring for pathogens associated with acute gastroenteritis and acute respiratory illness among hospitalized Veterans. This paper presents surveillance methods for adapting the SUPERNOVA surveillance platform to prospectively evaluate COVID-19 epidemiology during a public health emergency, including detecting, characterizing, and monitoring patients with and without COVID-19 beginning in March 2020. To allow for case-control analyses, patients with COVID-19 and patients with non-COVID-19 acute respiratory illness were included.Results: SUPERNOVA included 1,235 participants with COVID-19 and 707 participants with other acute respiratory illnesses hospitalized during February through December 2020. Most participants were male (93.1%), with a median age of 70 years, and 45.8% non-Hispanic Black and 32.6% non-Hispanic White. Among those with COVID-19, 28.2% were transferred to an intensive care unit, 9.4% received invasive mechanical ventilation, and 13.9% died. Compared with controls, after adjusting for age, sex, and race/ethnicity, COVID-19 case-patients had significantly higher risk of mortality, respiratory failure, and invasive mechanical ventilation, and longer hospital stays.Discussion: Strengths of the SUPERNOVA platform for COVID-19 surveillance include the ability to collect and integrate multiple types of data, including clinical and illness outcome information, and SARS-CoV-2 laboratory test results from respiratory and serum specimens. Analysis of data from this platform also enables formal comparisons of participants with and without COVID-19. Surveillance data collected during a public health emergency from this key U.S. population of Veterans will be useful for epidemiologic investigations of COVID-19 spectrum of disease, underlying medical conditions, virus variants, and vaccine effectiveness, according to public health priorities and needs.

Association of Hospital Employee Satisfaction with Patient Safety and Satisfaction within Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

2019 ◽  
Vol 132 (4) ◽  
pp. 530-534.e1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravinder Kang ◽  
Samuel T. Kunkel ◽  
Jesse A. Columbo ◽  
Philip P. Goodney ◽  
Sandra L. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Hospital Employee ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

The Impact of Complications after Vascular Surgery in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

1997 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andris Kazmers ◽  
Lloyd Jacobs ◽  
Anthony Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Surgery ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Veterans Affairs Medical Centers ◽  
The Impact

GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION ACROSS VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTERS IN THE TREATMENT OF EARLY STAGE PROSTATE CANCER

2004 ◽  
Vol 172 (6 Part 1) ◽  
pp. 2362-2365 ◽  
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN A. SPENCER ◽  
CONSTANCE H. FUNG ◽  
MINGMING WANG ◽  
LISA V. RUBENSTEIN ◽  
MARK S. LITWIN
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Geographic Variation ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

Changes in antibiotic use following implementation of a telehealth stewardship pilot program

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 810-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigid M. Wilson ◽  
Richard E. Banks ◽  
Christopher J. Crnich ◽  
Emma Ide ◽  
Roberto A. Viau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Stewardship ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Stewardship Program ◽  
Days Of Therapy ◽  
Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

AbstractStarting in 2016, we initiated a pilot tele-antibiotic stewardship program at 2 rural Veterans Affairs medical centers (VAMCs). Antibiotic days of therapy decreased significantly (P < .05) in the acute and long-term care units at both intervention sites, suggesting that tele-stewardship can effectively support antibiotic stewardship practices in rural VAMCs.

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