US Department of Veterans Affairs

This material is based upon work supported in part by the Office of Research and Development Medical Research Service, US Department of Veterans Affairs, and by the facilities at the Department ofVeterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, and in part by NIH grant DK17046 to the Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center, University of Washington. Dr. Baskin is Senior Research Career Scientist in the Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA. 

The US Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, which developed a new root cause analysis model to be used in the healthcare system consisting of assigning a safety assessment code to prioritise... 

Emergency Management Principles and Practices for Healthcare Systems. Washington, DC The Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management (ICDRM) at the George Washington University (GWU) for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)/US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). June 2006. 

In another analysis of prescribing data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, 60% of 279779 individuals without schizophrenia or bipolar disorder who received at least one prescription for an antipsychotic drug in 2007 had no record of a diagnosis for an FDA-approved indication [105]. 

Valenstein M, Kim HM, Ganoczy D, Eisenberg D, Pfeiffer PN, Downing K, et al. Antidepressant agents and suicide death among US Department of Veterans Affairs patients in depression treatment. J Qin Psychopharmacol 2012 32(3) 346-53. 

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, US.A. 

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