Anita A. Vashi, MD, MPH, MHS

The authors updated a diagnosis list to identify low-acuity emergency department visits by veterans and applied it to examine trends and predictors of veterans’ low-acuity utilization.

This article examines the prevalence of unused primary care appointments in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System.

Only 1.2% of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries who received hospital-based observation services in 2010 were discharged to an SNF not covered by Medicare.