aDepartment of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
bDepartment of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
cHouston Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston, TX
dRice University, Houston, TX
eOperative Care Line, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
fMedical Care Line, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
*Correspondence address: Linda T Li, MD, Houston VA HSR&D Center of Excellence (152), 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030.
email: [email protected]
Received August 24, 2012; Revised October 22, 2012; Accepted October 23, 2012.
Disclosure Information: Nothing to disclose.
This study was conducted with resources and use of facilities at the Houston VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence (HFP90-020) at the Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center. Dr Naik received support from a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award during the time period of this study. Dr Berger holds a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and a VERC grant from the Veterans' Intergrated Service Network 16. None of these funding agencies had any involvement in data collection, analysis, review of results, or approval of the final manuscript.
Drs Berger and Naik contributed equally to this work.