ArticleData in brief2021
Appointment wait time data for primary & specialty care in veterans health administration facilities vs. community medical centers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Recruiting US veterans with chronic low back pain in a multisite randomized pragmatic trial.Trials · 2026Trial
- Effect of a National VHA Medical Scribe Pilot on Provider Productivity, Wait Times, and Patient Satisfaction in Cardiology and Orthopedics.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Trial
- Using Nudges to Reduce Missed Appointments in Primary Care and Mental Health: a Pragmatic Trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Trial
- Are the Best Worth the Wait? Physician Quality Scores and Access Delays.Health services research · 2026Article
- Resource Use Patterns in US Telehealth Services: Machine Learning and Clustering Analysis Across 4 Specialties.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Article
- Clocking Injustice: Racial Disparities in Specialty Wait Times.Health services research · 2025Article
- Utilization and Cost of Veterans Health Administration Referrals to Community Care-Based Physical Therapy.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2025Article
- Outpatient dermatology appointment wait times for United States military veterans, 2014-2021.Archives of dermatological research · 2025Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Disruptions in Routine Cirrhosis Care and Associated Clinical Outcomes among San Francisco Bay Area Veterans.Gastro hep advances · 2025Article
- The effects of the Veterans Health Administration's Referral Coordination Initiative on referral patterns and waiting times for specialty care.Health services research · 2024Article
- Early Impact of VA MISSION Act Implementation on Primary Care Appointment Wait Time.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Changes in US Veterans' Access to Specialty Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Medicaid Expansion Increased Appointment Wait Times in Maine and Virginia.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Geographic Variation in Appointment Wait Times for US Military Veterans.JAMA network open · 2022Article
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Abstract
The datasets summarized in this article include more than 38 million appointment wait times that U.S. military veterans experienced when seeking medical care since January 2014. Our data include both within Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities and community medical centers, and wait times are stratified by primary/specialty care type. Deidentified wait time data are reported at the referral-level, at the VHA facility-level, and at the patient's 3-digit ZIP code-level. As of this writing, no other U.S. health care system has made their wait times publicly available. Our data thus represent the largest, national, and most representative measures of timely access to care for patients of both VHA and community providers. Researchers may use these datasets to identify variations in appointment wait times both longitudinally and cross-sectionally, conduct research on policies and interventions to improve access to care, and to incorporate fine-grained measures of wait times into their analyses.
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