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Archive for October 2012

VA Conference Spending Raises Questions; Investigators Seek Answers

$52,000 Patton Impersonator Raises Eyebrows
WASHINGTON — Training human resources personnel to recruit, train and retain medical professionals and other personnel is critical to VA’s mission, but has the agency gone overboard in spending on HR training conferences?

Use of High-Cost Diabetes Drugs Varies Widely Across VA

Walid Gellad, MD, MPH
By Brenda L. Mooney Despite a tightly managed national formulary, the use of high-cost drugs to treat diabetes shows “substantial” variation across the VA healthcare system, according to a new research letter. The VA-funded report, published onlin...
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