
Using evidence to justify policy and budget decisions
The strength of evidence checklist helps VHA make evidence-based policy and budget decisions.

The strength of evidence checklist helps VHA make evidence-based policy and budget decisions.

The sale of two RI hospitals is complicated. Should it happen?

VHA conducted a pilot intervention of medical scribes in EDs and outpatient clinics.

Medicare’s current financial trajectory isn’t sustainable so we need to do something different.

PEPReC evaluators study whether visiting a non-VA emergency department leads Veterans to receive more non-VA specialty care than visiting a VA emergency department would.

Serious illness has serious side effects, both physical and non-physical.

Vaccines work but some give even staunch supporters pause. These trends should not be ignored, and experts should modify their outreach accordingly.


Providers owe it to patients to consider if less really is more.

The loved ones of those with OCD have been thrown into the game without a playbook.

There are benefits to focusing more on the non-physical side effects of treatment.

The good news is that there are ways to make social media less harmful before it even reaches the user.