Quality of care in Veterans Health Administration hospitals: Helping veterans decide "Should I stay, or should I go?"

Donna Coetzee¹, Charlie M Wray^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
² Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ Section of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, California, USA.

Editorial

Donna Coetzee et al. J Hosp Med. 2025 Mar.

. 2025 Mar;20(3):319-320.

doi: 10.1002/jhm.13503. Epub 2024 Sep 5.

Donna Coetzee¹, Charlie M Wray^{2

3}

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
² Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ Section of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, California, USA.

No abstract available

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