Construct | Operationalization |
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1) Total number of non-women’s specific primary care clinics | Total number of mixed gender and separate but share space primary care clinics at the facility (i.e., women’s health primary care model 1 and model 2 clinics) |
2) Veterans Integrate Service Network (VISN) | VISN in which the facility is located (regional network) |
3) Women Veterans treated in primary care | Number of Women Veterans seen within targeted clinics at the facility |
4) Primary care workload | Panel size per primary care provider at the facility |
5) Primary care functioning related to mental health | Percentage of primary care patients seen for embedded mental health services with Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) clinicians |
6) Rurality | Binary; coded as “1” if facility is located within rural county or at least 65% of their patients live in rural areas |
7) Facility complexity | VA designation based on several facility variables such as size and availability of certain types of specialty services |
8) Emergency Department capacity | Number of Emergency Department visits at the facility |
9) Reliance of Women Veterans on VA care | Percent of Women Veterans who get prescriptions at the facility |
10) Mental health service capacity | Mental health encounters per unique patient at the facility |