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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Jun;38(6):1037–1045. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00020

EXHIBIT 2. Percent of veterans with acute and ambulatory care–sensitive (ACS) hospital admissions, by month before and after the start of service receipt.

EXHIBIT 2

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of aggregated encounter data for 2015–18 from the Veterans Health Administration. NOTES The months are thirty-day periods relative to the service initiation date of the Veteran-Directed Care (VDC) program or another purchased care program. Only hospitalizations from the Veterans Health Administration were included. VDC veterans and the “active comparison group” and “inactive comparison group” are explained in the notes to exhibit 1.