The Journal of Arthroplasty
Volume 25, Issue 2 , Pages 213-215 , February 2010

Using VistA Electronic Medical Record Data Extracts to Calculate the Waiting Time for Total Knee Arthroplasty

  • Tamseela Hussain, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Tamseela Hussain, MD, Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, 300 George Street Suite 501, New Haven, CT 06511.
    • Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
    • ,
  • Brian Bell

      Affiliations

    • VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut
    • ,
  • Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
    • VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut
    • ,
  • Jessica Nuzzo

      Affiliations

    • VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut
    • ,
  • Joseph J. Erdos, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut

Received 20 April 2009 ,Accepted 11 October 2009.

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  4. Yu W, Ravelo A, Wagner TH, et al. Prevalence and costs of chronic conditions in the VA health care system. Med Care Res Rev. 2003;60:146S
  5. Adams E. VA Technology Assessment Program. http://www.va.gov/vatap
  6. Brown SH, Lincoln MJ, Groen PJ, et al. VistA–U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs national-scale HIS. Int J Med Inform. 2003;69:135

 Benefits or funds were received in support of the study: grant LM07199, which is cofunded by the National Library of Medicine and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and by grant T15-LM07065 from the National Library of Medicine.

PII: S0883-5403(09)00483-5

doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2009.10.006

The Journal of Arthroplasty
Volume 25, Issue 2 , Pages 213-215 , February 2010

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