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To the Editor: Ashton et al. (Oct. 23 issue)¹ present a series of analyses of time trends in survival among Veterans Affairs (VA) beneficiaries with chronic conditions without considering how survival has varied among other chronically ill patients. A more informative approach might be to use the existing literature and assess survival rates reported for patients with various conditions in comparison with those for VA beneficiaries. Such estimates indicate that VA beneficiaries with diabetes are doing as well as the general population with the same disease,² that those with congestive heart failure are doing considerably better,³ that those with pneumonia . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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