Linkage of VA and State Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data to Examine Concurrent Opioid and Sedative‐Hypnotic Prescriptions among Veterans

Carlson, Kathleen F.; Gilbert, Tess; Morasco, Benjamin J.; Wright, Dagan; Otterloo, Joshua Van; Herrndorf, Aldona; Cook, Lawrence J.

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“…), and Oregon prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) data (Carlson et al. ). These papers leveraged the linked data they created to address a range of topics, including VA and non‐VA health care use and costs (Wang et al.…”

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“…; Carlson et al. ; and Chiu et al. ), and the impact of homelessness on health care use and costs (Nelson et al.…”

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“…Medicare data were the most commonly linked data (used in Wang et al 2018;Thorpe et al 2018;Vaughan Sarrazin et al 2018;Trivedi et al 2018;Reddy et al 2018;Nelson et al 2018a, b;Vanneman et al 2018;Liu et al 2018;Chui et al 2018;Hebert et al 2018;Lei et al 2018), because these data have been available to VA researchers within the VA under an agreement with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services via the VIReC for more than fifteen years and have well-established documentation and file structures (Hynes et al 2007). Other non-VA datasets used by authors in this special issue included US Renal Data System (USRDS) (Wang et al 2018), state data from California birth records (Shaw et al 2018), and Oregon prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) data (Carlson et al 2018). These papers leveraged the linked data they created to address a range of topics, including VA and non-VA health care use and costs (Wang et al 2018;Vaughan Sarrazin et al 2018;Hebert et al 2018;Vanneman et al 2018;Liu et al 2018;Lei et al 2018), medication use (Thorpe et al 2018;Carlson et al 2018;and Chiu et al 2018), and the impact of homelessness on health care use and costs (Nelson et al 2018, andTrivedi et al 2018).…”

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“…Other non-VA datasets used by authors in this special issue included US Renal Data System (USRDS) (Wang et al 2018), state data from California birth records (Shaw et al 2018), and Oregon prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) data (Carlson et al 2018). These papers leveraged the linked data they created to address a range of topics, including VA and non-VA health care use and costs (Wang et al 2018;Vaughan Sarrazin et al 2018;Hebert et al 2018;Vanneman et al 2018;Liu et al 2018;Lei et al 2018), medication use (Thorpe et al 2018;Carlson et al 2018;and Chiu et al 2018), and the impact of homelessness on health care use and costs (Nelson et al 2018, andTrivedi et al 2018). One study focused on health care use in VA and VA community care (Rosen et al 2018).…”

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“…One study focused on health care use in VA and VA community care (Rosen et al 2018). Clinical conditions addressed included mental health , dementia (Thorpe et al 2018;Lei et al 2018), end-stage kidney disease (Wang et al 2018), pain management (Carlson et al 2018;Chiu et al 2018), high-risk pregnancy (Shaw et al 2018), and infectious disease (Nelson et al 2018). Two studies linked Medicare data to examine the impact of the VA's patient aligned care team intervention Reddy et al 2018).…”

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HSR Commentary: Linking VA and Non‐VA Data to Address Important US Veteran Health Services Research Issues

Hynes

Maciejewski

Atkins

2018

Health Services Research

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Objective This commentary summarizes the methods and topics addressed in the special issue of HSR focused on linkage of United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non‐VA datasets. The issue illustrates that researchers are increasingly linking diverse datasets as a valuable method for obtaining outcomes, treatments, and covariates to evaluate and examine health care delivery that includes non‐VA services. The issue serves as a reference to VA and non‐VA investigators alike who employ data linkage methods to address high‐impact clinical and health policy evaluations that span different care systems and different datasets.

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Hynes

Maciejewski

Atkins

2018

Health Services Research

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Ramifications of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 on Mental Health

Aggarwal

2020

JAMA Psychiatry

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US veterans face severe mental health needs; there have been more than 6000 suicides annually from 2008 to 2016, a 25.9% jump in suicides from 2005 to 2016, a suicide rate 1.5-fold higher than nonveterans, and higher suicide rates for veterans accessing Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities vs those not using VA services, veterans overall, and nonveterans. 1 On June 6, 2018, the Veterans Affairs Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (VA MISSION) Act of 2018 came into law as S 2372. 2 The VA MISSION Act passed after former VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, called suicide prevention his top clinical priority, stating that just 6 of 20 veterans who have committed suicide each day accessed VA care in the past year. In January 2018, President Donald Trump issued an executive order for the VA and the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to coordinate seamless access to treatment for service members transitioning into veteran status to prevent suicides.S 2372 permits veterans to access non-VA services under particular circumstances. Still, how to coordinate care and facilitate communication across VA and non-VA clinicians remains unanswered. This Viewpoint reviews the mental health implications of S 2372, considers obstacles to expanding access with non-VA clinicians, and proposes solutions from the VA's partnerships with non-VA community clinicians through the Veterans Choice Act of 2014, which S 2372 replaces. 2 The implementation of S 2372 as of June 2019 makes this topic of wide public health interest.The text of S 2372 expands eligibility to clinicians participating in Medicare, the Department of Defense, the Indian Health Service, and federally qualified health centers. 2(p4) In practice, the potential clinician population is larger. To implement S 2372, the VA has contracted with urgent care centers nationwide to deliver walk-in services for veterans who are enrolled in VA health care and have received VA care in the past 24 months. Essentially, any licensed community clinician working with VA contractors could qualify for eligibility.Veterans can access non-urgent care VA clinicians when the VA does not offer necessary services; there is no in-state, full-service VA medical facility; the average driving time for primary care or mental health care is more than 30 minutes or more than 60 minutes for specialty care; the appointment wait time is more than 20 days for primary care or mental health care or more than 28 days for specialty care; or the veteran and VA clinician agree that treatment with a non-VA clinician is in the best medical interest. 2 S 2372 requires the VA Secretary to consult government and nongovernment stakeholders in establishing treatment standards. 2(p19) As ex-

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Traumatic Brain Injury

Adams

Brostow

Brenner

2023

Veteran and Military Mental Health

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Linkage of VA and State Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data to Examine Concurrent Opioid and Sedative‐Hypnotic Prescriptions among Veterans

Abstract: A considerable proportion of post-9/11 veterans receiving VA care in Oregon filled concurrent prescriptions for opioids and sedative-hypnotics. Fragmentation of care may contribute to prescription drug overdose risk among veterans.

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HSR Commentary: Linking VA and Non‐VA Data to Address Important US Veteran Health Services Research Issues

HSR Commentary: Linking VA and Non‐VA Data to Address Important US Veteran Health Services Research Issues

Ramifications of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 on Mental Health

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