Key result
Expanded VA community care access evaluated for links to veteran surgical outcomes and care quality.
Why the study?
Although legislation expanded access to VA-purchased community care for eligible veterans, whether this led to unintended consequences on quality of care was unknown.
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Population
Eligible veterans
Comparison
Expanded access to VA-purchased community care under Choice and MISSION acts
The implementation of the 2014 Veterans Choice (Choice) and 2018 MISSION acts expanded access to VA-purchased community care (CC) for eligible veterans. While access to CC has improved since Choice,1 little is known as to whether this legislation led to unintended consequences on quality of care.
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Itani et al. (2022) studied this question. Expanded access to VA-purchased community care was investigated for its association with veterans' surgical outcomes and potential unintended consequences on quality of care.
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