Appointment Wait Times for Primary and Specialty Care in Veterans Health Administration Facilities vs. Community Medical Centers

These deidentified datasets have been approved for public release by the VA Boston Healthcare System's Institutional Review Board and Privacy Office. Our data include approximately 52 million appointment wait times for both VA & community-based medical professionals from January 1st, 2014 to December 31st, 2022. Special thanks to Erin Beilstein-Wedel for helpful feedback and troubleshooting!

Please cite the following publication when using this dataset:

Y. Feyman, Legler, A., & K.N. Griffith. (2021). Appointment Wait Time Data for Primary & Specialty Care in Veterans Health Administration Facilities vs. Community Medical Centers. Data in Brief: e107134.

A non-exhaustive list of other peer-reviewed articles using these data:

Griffith, KN, Ndugga, NH, & Pizer, SP. (2020). "Appointment Wait Times for Specialty Care in Veterans Health Administration Facilities vs Community Medical Centers." JAMA Network Open 3(8): e2014313.

Auty, SG, & Griffith, KN. (2021). “Medicaid Expansion Increased Appointment Wait Times in Maine and Virginia.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 37(10): 2594-2596.

Griffith, KN, Asfaw, DA, Childers, RG, & Wilper, AP. (2022). “Changes in veterans’ access to specialty care during the COVID-19 pandemic.” JAMA Network Open 5(9): e2232515.

Feyman, Y, Asfaw, D, & Griffith, KN. (2022). “Geographic Variation in Appointment Wait Times for U.S. Military Veterans.” JAMA Network Open 5(8): e2228783.

See more on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=10379915202775127115&as_sdt=5

本批去标识化数据集已获波士顿退伍军人医疗系统（VA Boston Healthcare System）伦理审查委员会（Institutional Review Board）与隐私办公室批准，可公开发布。本数据集涵盖2014年1月1日至2022年12月31日期间，约5200万条针对退伍军人医疗体系（VA）及社区医疗从业者的预约等待时长记录。特别感谢Erin Beilstein-Wedel提供的宝贵反馈与问题排查支持！

使用本数据集时，请引用如下文献：
Y. Feyman、Legler A. 与K.N. Griffith（2021）：《退伍军人医疗管理局设施与社区医疗中心的初级及专科护理预约等待时长数据》，Data in Brief: e107134。

以下为使用本数据集的部分同行评议论文（非完整列表）：
Griffith KN、Ndugga NH、Pizer SP（2020）：《退伍军人医疗管理局设施与社区医疗中心的专科护理预约等待时长》，JAMA Network Open 3(8): e2014313。
Auty SG、Griffith KN（2021）：《医疗补助扩张延长缅因州与弗吉尼亚州预约等待时长》，Journal of General Internal Medicine 37(10): 2594-2596。
Griffith KN、Asfaw DA、Childers RG、Wilper AP（2022）：《COVID-19大流行期间退伍军人专科护理可及性变化》，JAMA Network Open 5(9): e2232515。
Feyman Y、Asfaw D、Griffith KN（2022）：《美国退伍军人预约等待时长的地域差异》，JAMA Network Open 5(8): e2228783。

更多相关文献可通过谷歌学术（Google Scholar）查看：https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=10379915202775127115&as_sdt=5

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集包含了2014年至2022年期间约5200万条退伍军人健康管理局设施与社区医疗中心在初级和专科护理预约等待时间的去识别化记录，用于比较两者之间的差异。数据已用于多篇学术研究，涉及医疗扩张、COVID-19疫情对专科护理可及性的影响以及地理变异等主题，覆盖医疗专业、初级保健和退伍军人健康等多个类别。