Anita A Vashi

Biographic Data

ID5534515
NAMEAnita A Vashi
GIVEN NAMESAnita A
FAMILY NAMEVashi
SIGNATUREVASHI A A
AFFILIATIONSAt the time of the study, Kelly M. Doran and Anita A. Vashi were with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Yale School of Medicine/US Department of Veterans Affairs, New Haven, CT, and Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven. At the time of the study, Stephanie Platis was with the Yale School of Public Health, New Haven. Leslie A. Curry is with the Yale School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Yale...
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Fragmented Financing in Emergency Department Use Among US Veterans

    Open AccessAnita A Vashi, Anita Vashi et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    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

  • Assessing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Receipt of Tele-Emergency Care

    Jessica Faiz, Joy Toyama et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2025References: 30

    BACKGROUND: In 2021, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) initiated a Tele-Emergency Care (TEC) program, where care is provided through phone or video by an emergency medicine provider to Veterans with urgent, unscheduled medical concerns. Early data suggest TEC effectively resolves Veterans' care concerns and decreases low-value emergency department visits. Equity of TEC receipt has yet to be assessed. OBJECTIVE: To assess differences, by rac…

  • Veterans’ Use of Telehealth for Veterans Health Administration Community Care Urgent Care During the Early Covid-19 Pandemic

    Kristina M Cordasco, Anita H Yuan et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2022References: 20

    BACKGROUND: Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has been an option for Veterans receiving urgent care through Veterans Health Administration Community Care (CC). OBJECTIVE: We assessed use, arrangements, Veteran decision-making, and experiences with CC urgent care delivered via telehealth. DESIGN: Convergent parallel mixed methods, combining multivariable regression analyses of claims data with semistructured Veteran interviews. …

  • Community Urgent Care Use Following Implementation of the Veterans Affairs Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act

    Open AccessAnita A Vashi, Anita Vashi et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2021References: 18

    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…

  • Navigating the Boundaries of Emergency Department Care

    Kelly M Doran, Anita A Vashi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2013Cited by: 6References: 39

    Objectives. We sought to understand interpersonal and systems-level factors relevant to delivering health care to emergency department (ED) patients who are homeless. Methods. We conducted semistructured interviews with emergency medicine residents from 2 residency programs, 1 in New York City and 1 in a medium-sized northeastern city, from February to September 2012. A team of researchers reviewed transcripts independently and coded text segment…