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Call for Papers

Submissions due May 1 for QUERI sponsored special issue in Medical Care on HIT strategies to support quality improvement research. More...
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right arrow Data Issues Brief (Apr 2012)
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Medical SAS Documentation:
New • Select Chronic Condition Diagnoses (FY07-11)
  • Historical Variable Attributes (FY99-11)
  • SAS Proc Contents (FY11)
right arrow ADUSH Enrollment Files Documentation:
  • SAS Proc Contents (FY11)
  • Historical Variable Attributes (FY99-11)
right arrow DSS Clinical NDEs Documentation:
New • SAS Proc Contents (FY11-midyr FY12)
  • Historical Variable Attributes (FY04-11)
  • Select Variable Frequencies (FY04-10)
  • Unique Patient-Level Frequencies (FY07-10)
right arrow VA/CMS Record Level Frequencies:
  • Medicaid Datasets
  • Medicare Datasets
  • Patient Assessment Datasets
 
JRRD Publications
The VA Information Resource Center (VIReC) is pleased to announce the publication of "Quality and Utility of Secondary Data for VA Research," Volume 47, Number 8 of the Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development (JRRD). This single topic issue is the result of an 18-month collaboration between VIReC and JRRD. More...
Data Sources Useful for Research
right arrow VA/CMS Data for Research
right arrow VA Decision Support System (DSS)
right arrow VA Medical SAS® Datasets
right arrow VA Vital Status File
right arrow Data Sources Outside the VA
right arrow Additional Data Sources...

Data Topics for Research
right arrow Data Quality
right arrow VHA Race & Ethnicity
right arrow Laboratory
right arrow Long Term Care
right arrow Mortality
right arrow Pharmacy
right arrow Polytrauma / Traumatic Brain Injury
right arrow Additional Data Topics...
 

Upcoming Cyber Seminars
right arrow Clinical Informatics Seminars
May 15: Telemonitoring and Sleep Apnea: Effect on CPAP Adherence
right arrow Databases & Methods Series
Jun 4: Using VA Corporate Data Warehouse to Assess Vitals
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right arrow VIReC Research User Guides
right arrow Cyber Seminars
right arrow Introduction to VA Data
right arrow Requesting Access to VA Data
right arrow Using Data at the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC)
right arrow National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics (NCVAS) website
  • VA Stats at a Glance (Feb 2011)
right arrow Data Issues Brief
right arrow VIReC Technical Reports

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