September Marks Suicide Prevention Month
The message from VA to the friends and families of Veterans during Suicide Prevention Month is simple: Be there. “We know that in 2014, an average of 20 Veterans a day died in this country from suicide, which is 20 too many,” said VA Secretary David J. Shulkin. [From VAntage Point]
09/01/2017 #VeteranOfTheDay Alice Evamae Ewing Phillips
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Women’s Army Corps Veteran Alice Evamae Ewing Phillips. Alice served during World War II from 1944-1947. [From VAntage Point]
We honor her service.
Veterans Housing and Mortgages Continue to Rise for Tribes
The Department of Veterans Affairs has passed the 1,000 mark in the number of direct mortgages it has made to American Indian Veterans of some 100 tribes. As of May of last year the number of loans stood at 1,010, with total financing of $120 million, according to a VA presentation. [From Indian Country Today]
Father and Son Fight for a Country Which Doesn't Allow Them to Vote
In the first years after the September 11 terror attacks, administrators at Guam’s A.B. Won Pat International Airport put up memorial banners to honor members of the military from the island and neighboring US territories who died in Washington’s war on terror. The names have added up – by the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, the airport installed a digital memorial so they could list them all. [From CNN]
Study Using VA System Showed Racial Differences for Total Knee Arthroplasty Rates
Among patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, racial disparities persist in the rates of total knee arthroplasty, according to recent findings. Researchers collected data on total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures documented in the VA Musculoskeletal Disorders cohort and focused on Veterans who enrolled in the cohort with osteoarthritis (OA) between 2001 and 2011. Read more » [From Healio Rheumatology]
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Study using VA system showed racial differences for total knee arthroplasty rates
Hausmann LR, et al. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken).
Among patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system, racial disparities persist in the rates of total knee arthroplasty, according to recent findings.
Researchers collected data on total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures documented in the Veterans Affairs (VA) Musculoskeletal Disorders cohort and focused on veterans who enrolled in the cohort with osteoarthritis (OA) between 2001 and 2011. Eligible participants were at least 50 years old with any OA diagnosis recorded during at least two outpatient visits within 18 months of each other or at least one inpatient stay within the study interval. Those who met these criteria were counted once and monitored from their OA index date. Among these patients, those without missing racial/ethnic information were classified into three mutually exclusive groups: non-Hispanic white (ie, whites, n = 473,170); non-Hispanic black (ie, black, n = 50,172) and Hispanic ethnicity (n = 16,499).
Researchers identified 12,087 TKA procedures performed within a median follow-up interval of 8 years, with an overall rate of 2.2%. A model assessing racial and ethnic differences by year and adjusted for age, sex, BMI and pain intensity revealed black patients were less likely than whites to undergo TKA in all but 2 years of the observation interval. There were no significant differences in likelihood of undergoing TKA between Hispanic patients and white patients during any of the years analyzed.
this was significantly lower in those with PTSD. Conversely, the likelihood of undergoing TKA increased in relationship to increased BMI and pain intensity.
TKA procedures were performed for an overall rate of 8.1%. In this analysis, trends similar to those seen in the full analytic sample were observed in terms of racial and ethnic disparity; black patients were less likely than white patients to undergo TKA in all but 2 years of observation. Again, no significant differences were observed in TKA rates between Hispanic patients and white patients.
“In the VA health care system, black veterans diagnosed with OA in most years from 2001 to 2011 were less likely to undergo TKA than white veterans by 2013, after adjusting for demographic and key clinical characteristics,” the researchers wrote. “To ensure that the health care needs of all veterans are being meet, it is important to continue efforts to understand and develop interventions to reduce racial differences in TKA in veterans.” – by Jennifer Byrne
Disclosures: The authors report no relevant financial disclosures.
Army Veteran Continues to Serve His Community with Nationally Acclaimed BBQ
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, getting on and off a United States military base was a nightmare. Security checks were extensive creating long lines of cars outside the Flag hung at Fox’s BBQ gates, and resulting in multiple hours of waits. Cars would run out of gas just waiting to access the base. [From VAntage Point]
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, getting on and off a United States military base was a nightmare. Security checks were extensive creating long lines of cars outside the Flag hung at Fox’s BBQ gates, and resulting in multiple hours of waits. Cars would run out of gas just waiting to access the base. [From VAntage Point]
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