JRRD Volume 47, Number 8, 2010

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Volume 47 Number 8, 2010
Pages v — vi

iii Masthead
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vii Guest Editorial:
Advancing veterans' healthcare using electronic data: Lessons learned from researchers in the field

Elizabeth Tarlov, RN, PhD; Kevin T. Stroupe, PhD
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xiii Guest Editorial:
Transformation of VHA health data into clinically useful information to provide quality veteran care

Seth Eisen, MD, MSc; Joseph Francis, MD
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xvii JRRD at a Glance
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Scientific/Technical Articles

679 Using VA data for research in persons with spinal cord injuries and disorders: Lessons from SCI QUERI

Bridget M. Smith, PhD; Charlesnika T. Evans, MPH, PhD; Philip Ullrich, PhD; Stephen Burns, MD; Marylou Guihan, PhD; Scott Miskevics, MS; Sherri L. LaVela, PhD, MPH, MBA; Suparna Rajan, PhD; Frances M. Weaver, PhD
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689 Accuracy of external cause-of-injury coding in VA polytrauma patient discharge records

Kathleen F. Carlson, MS, PhD; Sean M. Nugent, BA; Joseph Grill, MS; Nina A. Sayer, PhD
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699 Are VHA administrative location codes valid indicators of specialty substance use disorder treatment?

Alex H. S. Harris, PhD; Rachelle N. Reeder, BA; Laura Ellerbe, MS; Thomas Bowe, PhD
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709 Mental illness-related disparities in length of stay: Algorithm choice influences results

Susan M. Frayne, MD, MPH; Eric Berg, MS; Tyson H. Holmes, PhD; Kaajal Laungani, BA; Dan R. Berlowitz, MD, MPH; Donald R. Miller, ScD; Leonard Pogach, MD, MBA; Valerie W. Jackson, MPH; Rudolf Moos, PhD
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719 Can administrative data identify active diagnoses for long-term care resident assessment?

Dan R. Berlowitz, MD, MPH; Elaine C. Hickey, RN, MS; Debra Saliba, MD, MPH
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725 Matching prosthetics order records in VA National Prosthetics Patient Database to healthcare utilization databases

Mark W. Smith, PhD; Pon Su, MS; Ciaran S. Phibbs, PhD
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739 VHA Corporate Data Warehouse height and weight data: Opportunities and challenges for health services research

Polly Hitchcock Noël, PhD; Laurel A. Copeland, PhD; Ruth A. Perrin, MA; A. Elizabeth Lancaster, BS; Mary Jo Pugh, RN, PhD; Chen-Pin Wang, PhD; Mary J. Bollinger, MPH; Helen P. Hazuda, PhD
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751 Validation of erythropoietin use data on Medicare's End-Stage Renal Disease Medical Evidence Report

Michael J. Fischer, MD, MSPH; Kevin T. Stroupe, PhD; Denise M. Hynes, RN, MPH, PhD; Pierre Blemur, MD; Min-Woong Sohn; Margaret M. Browning, PhD; Zhiping Huo, MS; Ann M. O'Hare, MD; James S. Kaufman, MD
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763 Creating a sampling frame for population-based veteran research: Representativeness and overlap of VA and Department of Defense databases

Donna L. Washington, MD, MPH; Su Sun, MPH; Mark Canning, BA
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773 What can Medicaid data add to research on VA patients?

Ann Hendricks, PhD; John Gardner, PhD; Austin Frakt, PhD; Daniel Gilden, MS; Julia Prentice, PhD; Lynn Wolfsfeld, MP; Steven Pizer, PhD
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781 Use of Medicare and DOD data for improving VA race data quality

Kevin T. Stroupe, PhD; Elizabeth Tarlov, RN, PhD; Qiuying Zhang, MS; Thomas Haywood, MPH; Arika Owens, MPH; Denise M. Hynes, RN, MPH, PhD
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797 Using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to conduct research on Medicare-eligible veterans

Yvonne Jonk, PhD; Heidi O'Connor, MS; Tamara Schult, MPH; Andrea Cutting, MA; Roger Feldman, PhD; Diane Cowper Ripley, PhD; Bryan Dowd, PhD
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815 Brief report: Comparison of methods to identify Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans using Department of Veterans Affairs administrative data

Ann Bangerter, BS; Amy Gravely, MA; Andrea Cutting, MA; Barb Clothier, MA, MS; Michele Spoont, PhD; Nina Sayer, PhD, LP
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