Outpatient care changes and associated mortality among Veterans with heart failure during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shilpa Vijayakumar; Emily Corneau; Sebhat Erqou; Aravind Kokkirala; Wen-Chih Wu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0323308

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Outpatient care changes and associated mortality among Veterans with heart failure during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shilpa Vijayakumar,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Cardiovascular Division and Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5085-1397

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Emily Corneau,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Innovation, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Sebhat Erqou,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Innovation, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Providence VA Medical Center, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Aravind Kokkirala,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Providence VA Medical Center, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Wen-Chih Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: wen-chih.wu@va.gov

Affiliations Center of Innovation, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Providence VA Medical Center, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2834-2024

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Outpatient care changes and associated mortality among Veterans with heart failure during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shilpa Vijayakumar,
Emily Corneau,
Sebhat Erqou,
Aravind Kokkirala,
Wen-Chih Wu

Published: May 16, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323308

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