Improving Care Coordination for Veterans Within VA and Across Healthcare Systems

Kristina M Cordasco^{1

2

3}, Denise M Hynes^{4

5}, Kristin M Mattocks^{6

7}, Lori A Bastian^{8

9}, Hayden B Bosworth^{10

11}, David Atkins¹²

Affiliations

¹ VA Health Services Research and Development Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy, Los Angeles, CA, USA. kristina.cordasco@va.gov.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA. kristina.cordasco@va.gov.
³ Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA. kristina.cordasco@va.gov.
⁴ Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care, Portland VA Health Care System, Portland, OR, USA.
⁵ College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.
⁶ VA Central Western Massachusetts, Leeds, MA, USA.
⁷ University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
⁸ Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities and Education Center, VA Connecticut, West Haven, CT, USA.
⁹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
¹⁰ Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT), Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
¹¹ Departments of Population Health Sciences, Medicine, Psychiatry, and School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
¹² VA Health Services Research and Development Services, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, USA.

Editorial

Kristina M Cordasco et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;34(Suppl 1):1-3.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-04999-4.

Kristina M Cordasco^{1

2

3}, Denise M Hynes^{4

5}, Kristin M Mattocks^{6

7}, Lori A Bastian^{8

9}, Hayden B Bosworth^{10

11}, David Atkins¹²

¹ VA Health Services Research and Development Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy, Los Angeles, CA, USA. kristina.cordasco@va.gov.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA. kristina.cordasco@va.gov.
³ Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA. kristina.cordasco@va.gov.
⁴ Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care, Portland VA Health Care System, Portland, OR, USA.
⁵ College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.
⁶ VA Central Western Massachusetts, Leeds, MA, USA.
⁷ University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
⁸ Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities and Education Center, VA Connecticut, West Haven, CT, USA.
⁹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
¹⁰ Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT), Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
¹¹ Departments of Population Health Sciences, Medicine, Psychiatry, and School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
¹² VA Health Services Research and Development Services, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors are employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs. No authors reported any additional conflicts of interest with this work.

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