Tracy Urech
Biographic Data
| ID | 5534272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Urech |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy |
| FAMILY NAME | Urech |
| SIGNATURE | URECH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | VA Palo Alto Health Care System |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6512-3480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bridging Gaps in Acute Care Access for Rural Veterans
Purpose To evaluate the impact of the Veterans Health Administration's (VA) virtual acute care programs—tele‐emergency care (TEC) and virtual care visits (VCV)—on short‐term utilization, mortality, and costs among rural veterans. Methods This retrospective study used national call center data (January 2022–September 2024) linked with VA administrative and community care records. Completed TEC or VCV encounters were grouped by triage acuity: acute…
Fragmented Financing in Emergency Department Use Among US Veterans
This cross-sectional study uses US Veterans Affairs Health Care System administrative data crossed with New York state’s all claims database to identify emergency department visits by enrollees from 2016 to 2020
Community Urgent Care Use Following Implementation of the Veterans Affairs Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act
BACKGROUND: Effective June 6, 2019, Veterans Affairs (VA) began offering a new urgent care (UC) benefit that provides eligible Veterans with greater choice and access to care for the treatment of minor injuries and illnesses in their local communities. OBJECTIVES: The aim was to describe trends in UC use, identify predictors of UC benefit use, and understand the factors associated with community UC use versus VA emergency department (ED) or urgen…
Calculations of Financial Incentives for Providers in a Pay-for-Performance Program
BACKGROUND: Hospital report cards and financial incentives linked to performance require clinical data that are reliable, appropriate, timely, and cost-effective to process. Pay-for-performance plans are transitioning to automated electronic health record (EHR) data as an efficient method to generate data needed for these programs. OBJECTIVE: To determine how well data from automated processing of structured fields in the electronic health record…
Impact of Comorbidity Type on Measures of Quality for Diabetes Care
OBJECTIVE: Studies provide conflicting results about the impact of comorbid conditions on the quality of chronic illness care. We assessed the effect of comorbidity type (concordant, discordant, or both) on the receipt of guideline-recommended care among patients with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN: Patients were assigned to 1 of 4 condition groups: diabetes-concordant (hypertension, ischemic heart disease, hyperlipidemia), and/or diabetes-discordant …
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Impact of Comorbidity Type on Measures of Quality for Diabetes Care
OBJECTIVE: Studies provide conflicting results about the impact of comorbid conditions on the quality of chronic illness care. We assessed the effect of comorbidity type (concordant, discordant, or both) on the receipt of guideline-recommended care among patients with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN: Patients were assigned to 1 of 4 condition groups: diabetes-concordant (hypertension, ischemic heart disease, hyperlipidemia), and/or diabetes-discordant …
Calculations of Financial Incentives for Providers in a Pay-for-Performance Program
BACKGROUND: Hospital report cards and financial incentives linked to performance require clinical data that are reliable, appropriate, timely, and cost-effective to process. Pay-for-performance plans are transitioning to automated electronic health record (EHR) data as an efficient method to generate data needed for these programs. OBJECTIVE: To determine how well data from automated processing of structured fields in the electronic health record…
Community Urgent Care Use Following Implementation of the Veterans Affairs Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act
BACKGROUND: Effective June 6, 2019, Veterans Affairs (VA) began offering a new urgent care (UC) benefit that provides eligible Veterans with greater choice and access to care for the treatment of minor injuries and illnesses in their local communities. OBJECTIVES: The aim was to describe trends in UC use, identify predictors of UC benefit use, and understand the factors associated with community UC use versus VA emergency department (ED) or urgen…
Fragmented Financing in Emergency Department Use Among US Veterans
This cross-sectional study uses US Veterans Affairs Health Care System administrative data crossed with New York state’s all claims database to identify emergency department visits by enrollees from 2016 to 2020
Bridging Gaps in Acute Care Access for Rural Veterans
Purpose To evaluate the impact of the Veterans Health Administration's (VA) virtual acute care programs—tele‐emergency care (TEC) and virtual care visits (VCV)—on short‐term utilization, mortality, and costs among rural veterans. Methods This retrospective study used national call center data (January 2022–September 2024) linked with VA administrative and community care records. Completed TEC or VCV encounters were grouped by triage acuity: acute…
Primary Care and Health Outcomes (4 works) · Emergency and Acute Care Studies (3 works) · Emergency department (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Veterans Affairs (3 works) · Emergency Medicine (2 works) · Emergency Medicine (2 works)