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Kevin Griffith
@assumenormality.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt w/ expertise in access to care, Medicaid, Veterans' health. Formerly Boston University, Department of Defense, US Army (CIV). Views are my own. #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
It's now multiple pages
January 1, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Tell that to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, they've effectively barred researchers from using your product for this reason!
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
thank you!
December 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
thank you!
December 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I was expecting my Google scholar and was pleasantly surprised 😄
December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Taken together, our results demonstrate consistently high veteran satisfaction regardless of the credentials of their anesthesia providers. FIN
December 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Lastly, supervision ratio was unrelated to any outcome

Usual caveats: patient satisfaction is often "blended" - I might ask about a specific encounter, but your perceptions are affected by other encounters. The SHEP questions are also general and not-anesthesia-specific
December 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In adjusted OLS and logistic regression models controlling for demographic, facility, and patient characteristics, we found no differences for inpatient surgeries

Having CRNAs involved had minor positive effects on patient-provider communication
December 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Our first takeaway was that Veterans are very highly satisfied, both overall and across anesthesia delivery models

For "team care" surgeries, we also examined the supervision ratio (how many concurrent cases an anesthesiologist supervises) and it was unrelated to satisfaction
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
SHEP is sent to a sample of Veterans after inpatient or outpatient encounters. Patients rate their hospitals and providers, assess whether providers showed respect and listened to them, and indicate if they'd recommend the VA or seek VA care if outside alternatives were free
December 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We linked detailed data on VA surgeries and staffing with completed responses to the Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients (SHEP).

We limited our sample to invasive surgeries in VA operating rooms where anesthesia was performed during 2016-2023
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM