United States Department of Veterans Affairs
"United States Department of Veterans Affairs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A cabinet department in the Executive Branch of the United States Government concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs pertaining to VETERANS. It was established March 15, 1989 as a Cabinet-level position.
| Descriptor ID |
D014493
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.409.418.750.700 N03.540.348.500.500.700
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| Concept/Terms |
United States Department of Veterans Affairs- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- United States Veterans Administration
- Veterans Administration
- United States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs
- Veterans Affairs (U.S.)
- United States Veterans' Administration
- Veterans Administration (U.S.)
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "United States Department of Veterans Affairs" by people in this website by year, and whether "United States Department of Veterans Affairs" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2004 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2009 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2010 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 2011 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2012 | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| 2013 | 3 | 16 | 19 |
| 2014 | 4 | 17 | 21 |
| 2015 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 2016 | 9 | 23 | 32 |
| 2017 | 5 | 17 | 22 |
| 2018 | 6 | 15 | 21 |
| 2019 | 6 | 18 | 24 |
| 2020 | 2 | 16 | 18 |
| 2021 | 1 | 14 | 15 |
| 2022 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 2023 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2024 | 10 | 29 | 39 |
| 2025 | 3 | 31 | 34 |
| 2026 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "United States Department of Veterans Affairs" by people in Profiles.
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Association between deployment and Gulf War Illness and adverse COVID outcomes in a nationwide cohort of 1990-1991 Gulf Era war veterans in the VA's Million Veteran Program. PLoS One. 2026; 21(6):e0348594.
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Trajectories of Treatment Disruption for Chronic Outpatient Medications for U.S. Veterans During Drug Shortages. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2026 Jun; 35(6):e70393.
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Defining Veteran Rurality: An Analysis of the U.S. Veterans Health Administration Rural-Urban Taxonomy. J Rural Health. 2026 Jun; 42(3):e70182.
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Mortality in narcolepsy and other sleep clinic patients: a 25-year propensity-matched VA cohort study. J Clin Sleep Med. 2026 May 04; 22(1).
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Stakeholders' Attitudes on Automating Data Abstraction in a Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2026 Aug; 52(8):342-349.
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Implementing measurement-based care in virtual mental health services for rural veterans: provider insights from a pre-implementation evaluation. BMC Health Serv Res. 2026 Apr 03; 26(1).
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"Hit or Miss": Rural Veterans' Experiences Receiving Community Mental Health Care. J Rural Health. 2026 Mar; 42(2):e70151.
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Bridging the Rural Mental Health Gap: Telehealth Delivery of Specialized CBT and MBCT for Veterans With Parkinson's Disease. J Rural Health. 2026 Mar; 42(2):e70175.
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Cultivating the Field of Rural Health Research: The Case for Rural Health Research Competencies. J Rural Health. 2026 Mar; 42(2):e70178.
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Characteristics of Pregnant Veterans: A Descriptive Retrospective Medical Record Study. Mil Med. 2026 Mar 01; 191(3-4):e481-e486.