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    <dc:creator>Griffith, Kevin</dc:creator>
    <dc:title>Appointment Wait Times for Primary and Specialty Care in Veterans Health Administration Facilities vs. Community Medical Centers</dc:title>
    <dc:publisher>Mendeley Data</dc:publisher>
    <dc:description>These deidentified datasets have been approved for public release by the VA Boston Healthcare System&apos;s Institutional Review Board and Privacy Office. Our data include approximately 52 million appointment wait times for both VA &amp; community-based medical professionals from January 1st, 2014 to December 31st, 2022. Special thanks to Erin Beilstein-Wedel for helpful feedback and troubleshooting! 

Please cite the following publication when using this dataset:

Y. Feyman, Legler, A., &amp; K.N. Griffith. (2021). Appointment Wait Time Data for Primary &amp; Specialty Care in Veterans Health Administration Facilities vs. Community Medical Centers. Data in Brief: e107134.


A non-exhaustive list of other peer-reviewed articles using these data:

Griffith, KN, Ndugga, NH, &amp; Pizer, SP. (2020). &quot;Appointment Wait Times for Specialty Care in Veterans Health Administration Facilities vs Community Medical Centers.&quot; JAMA Network Open 3(8): e2014313. 

Auty, SG, &amp; Griffith, KN. (2021). “Medicaid Expansion Increased Appointment Wait Times in Maine and Virginia.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 37(10): 2594-2596.

Griffith, KN, Asfaw, DA, Childers, RG, &amp; Wilper, AP. (2022). “Changes in veterans’ access to specialty care during the COVID-19 pandemic.” JAMA Network Open 5(9): e2232515.

Feyman, Y, Asfaw, D, &amp; Griffith, KN. (2022). “Geographic Variation in Appointment Wait Times for U.S. Military Veterans.” JAMA Network Open 5(8): e2228783.

See more on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&amp;hl=en&amp;cites=10379915202775127115&amp;as_sdt=5

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    <dc:subject>Medical Care</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Veterans Affairs</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Primary Health Care</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Access to Health Care</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Veterans Health</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Veterans Mental Health</dc:subject>
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    <dc:identifier>oai:data.mendeley.com/rmk89k4rhb.16</dc:identifier>
    <dc:rights>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</dc:rights>
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