VA Palo Alto Healthcare Systems (640/90C), 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1290

B -- VETERANS FOLLOW-UP SURVEY SOL 640-112-98 DUE 071398 POC Lupe Arroyo, Contracting Officer (650) 493-5000 ext.64698 The project involes a 1-year follow-up of a group of veterans who received health services at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers throughout the United States. These veterans completed an interview that included questions that were essentially comparable to the questions included in the follow-up survey they will be asked to complete for this phase of the project. The goal of the current phase of the project is to obtain completed follow-up surveys that provide information on the health status of a minimum of 70% of aproximately 20,000 veterans (that is, 14,000 veterans). This involves mailing the veterans the follow-up survey and obtaining their cooperation to complete it. It also involves optical scanning key-entering the data in an SPSS file and providing frequency distributions and summary descriptive statistics of the survey resonses. (0163)

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