Urology
Volume 72, Issue 1 , Pages 37-41 , July 2008

Urologic Disease Burden in the United States: Veteran Users of Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare

  • Jennifer T. Anger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Santa Monica, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jennifer Anger, M.D., M.P.H., Department of Urology, University of California-Los Angeles, 1260 15th Street, Suite 1200, Santa Monica, CA 90404.
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  • Christopher S. Saigal

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Santa Monica, California
    • RAND Health, Santa Monica, California
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  • MingMing Wang

      Affiliations

    • VA Greater Los Angeles HSR&D Center of Excellence for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, Sepulveda, California
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  • Elizabeth M. Yano

      Affiliations

    • VA Greater Los Angeles HSR&D Center of Excellence for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, Sepulveda, California
    • Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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  • Urologic Diseases in America Project

Received 24 October 2007 ,Accepted 27 November 2007.

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 Funded by the Urologic Diseases in America Project, National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

PII: S0090-4295(08)00114-3

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.163

Urology
Volume 72, Issue 1 , Pages 37-41 , July 2008

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