Your United States Department of Agriculture : how it serves people on the farm and in the community, nation and world.

Mode of access: Internet.

Your United States Department of Agriculture : how it serves people on the farm and in the community, nation, world.

"Revised July 1970"--P. 14.

Report of the Oregon Weather Bureau, coöperating with United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau

Biennial

Report of Agricultural Commission to Europe. Observations made by American agriculturists in Great Britain, France, and Italy for the United States Department of Agriculture.

Mode of access: Internet.

Century of service: the first 100 years of the United States Department of Agriculture.

"Literature cited": p. 419-439

The Arlington experimental farm of the United States Department of agriculture; a handbook of information for visitors;

Mode of access: Internet.

Decision list / United States Department of the Interior, Board on Geographic Names.

Mode of access: Internet.

Manual of meat inspection procedures of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Mode of access: Internet.

Manual of meat inspection procedures of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Mode of access: Internet.

Characteristics of primary care office visits to nurse practitioners, physician assistants and physicians in United States Veterans Health Administration facilities, 2005 to 2010: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis.

UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND: Primary care, an essential determinant of health system equity, efficiency, and effectiveness, is threatened by inadequate supply and distribution of the provider workforce. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has been a frontrunner in the use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). Evaluation of the roles and impact of NPs and PAs in the VHA is critical to ensuring optimal care for veterans and may inform best practices for use of PAs and NPs in other settings around the world. The purpose of this study was to characterize the use of NPs and PAs in VHA primary care and to examine whether their patients and patient care activities were, on average, less medically complex than those of physicians. METHODS: This is a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of administrative data from VHA primary care encounters between 2005 and 2010. Patient and patient encounter characteristics were compared across provider types (PA, NP, and physician). RESULTS: NPs and PAs attend about 30% of all VHA primary care encounters. NPs, PAs, and physicians fill similar roles in VHA primary care, but patients of PAs and NPs are slightly less complex than those of physicians, and PAs attend a higher proportion of visits for the purpose of determining eligibility for benefits. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that a highly successful nationwide primary care system relies on NPs and PAs to provide over one quarter of primary care visits, and that these visits are similar to those of physicians with regard to patient and encounter characteristics. These findings can inform health workforce solutions to physician shortages in the USA and around the world. Future research should compare the quality and costs associated with various combinations of providers and allocations of patient care work, and should elucidate the approaches that maximize quality and efficiency.

Oversight of VA prosthetics and special-disabilities programs : hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, June 7, 1990.

Mode of access: Internet.

Directory of Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.

Title from cover.

A program evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Dietetic Service /

"August 1990."

Making appropriations for military quality of life functions of the Department of Defense, military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes : conference report (to accompany H.R. 2528).

"November 18 (legislative day, November 17), 2005."