VA HEALTH CARE: Improved Oversight Needed for Reviewing and Reporting Providers for Quality and Safety Concerns.

The article presents a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Veterans' Affairs (VA) health care. Topics discussed include responsibility of VA medical centers to ensure providers deliver safe care to patients; use of National Practitioner Data Bank to obtain information on a provider’s history of substandard care and misconduct; and importance of VA medical care centers to review the clinical care and provide documentation.