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You won't find one. Despite the drive for pay-for-performance, there is as of yet no acceptable measuring stick to determine whether one physician is "better" than another in objective terms. You won't find a study comparing these two cohorts for sure, although it certainly would be interesting.

As for comparing health outcomes between patients at the VAMC and other hospitals, that is a simple matter of pulling numbers on reported errors, morbidity and mortality rates, EM outcomes data, and other metrics that all hospitals keep.

 

those are 2 different questions.

VA docs are usually civilians and civilian trained.

are you looking at quality of VA care or quality of military training?

 

i know the va did studies regarding less medical errors, timely refills, less patient jumping to new docs, etc. Occasionally the evening news programs will pick this up- so there must be some data somewhere. As a 4th year student, the VA system is the ultimate in computerized medical records which allow the MD to see when the last tests were ordered, refills, results, and notes. In fact you can pull records from other VA hospitals (e.g. New York to Las Vegas) within minutes.

 

more impacted regarding what?

generally there is a long wait for specialized care and even some primary care if you are a first time VA user. However, that is a political/budgetary cause. E.g. not enough funding for MD's to work @ the VAs. Therefore, longer waits.