Facility-Level Variation in Cardiac Stress Test Use Among Patients With Diabetes: Findings From the Veterans Affairs National Database

Diabetes Care. 2020 May;43(5):e58-e60. doi: 10.2337/dc19-2160. Epub 2020 Mar 11.

Dhruv Mahtta^{1

2

3}, Sarah T Ahmed^{1

2}, Nishant R Shah⁴, David J Ramsey^{1

2}, Julia M Akeroyd^{1

2}, Khurram Nasir⁵, Ihab R Hamzeh⁶, Islam Y Elgendy⁷, Stephen W Waldo⁸, Mouaz H Al-Mallah⁹, Hani Jneid^{6

10}, Christie M Ballantyne^{3

6}, Laura A Petersen^{1

2}, Salim S Virani^{11

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3

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¹ Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Health Services Research & Development Center for Innovations, Houston, TX.
² Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
³ Section of Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
⁴ Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI.
⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Center for Outcomes & Research Evaluation, Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health, New Haven, CT.
⁶ Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
⁷ Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
⁸ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO.
⁹ Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.
¹⁰ Section of Cardiology, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX.
¹¹ Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Health Services Research & Development Center for Innovations, Houston, TX virani@bcm.edu.

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