2015 HSR&D/QUERI National Conference Abstracts

2015 HSR&D/QUERI National Conference Abstracts

Number	Presenter	Title	Content Area	Type
3100	Harrod	"Beyond our control": How organizational context impacts performance measurement	Other	POSTER
3040	Giannitrapani	"It encourages them to complain": potential unintended consequences of routine pain screening	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	POSTER
3114	Littman	"This is your new normal": Barriers and enablers to physical activity and weight management in veterans with lower limb loss: A qualitative study	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	POSTER
3151	Whittle	A Community Engagement Strategy to Increase Veterans' Use of My HealtheVet, a Computerized Patient Portal and Self-Management Tool	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3136	Hernandez	A First Look at PCMH Implementation for Minority Veterans: Room for Improvement.	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1021	Possemato	A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Study of a Referral Management System to Address Barriers to Treatment Seeking among Veterans with PTSD	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
3112	Allen	A National Profile of Change in VA Community Living Centers 2004-2011	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1019	Erbes	A Pilot Trial of VA-CRAFT: Online Training to Enhance Family Well-Being and Veteran Mental Health Service Use	Post-Deployment Health	PAPER
1123	Fortney	A Pragmatic Randomized Trial of Telemedicine Based Collaborative Care for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
1112	Sayer	A Preliminary Look at Use of PE and CPT in VHA Specialty Outpatient PTSD Programs	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3160	Makarov	A Qualitative Study to Understand Inappropriate use of Imaging for Patients with Low Risk Prostate Cancer.	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	POSTER
3110	Watts	A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of a Patient Decision Aid for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
3157	Hagel Campbell	A Randomized Controlled Trial of Special Mailing Procedures on Survey Response Rates: UPS vs USPS Priority Mail	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
1044	Piette	A Randomized Trial of Mobile Health Support for Heart Failure Patients and Their Informal Caregivers: Impacts on Caregiver-Reported Outcomes	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
3066	Kurlander	A Systematic Review of Patient Education Interventions To Improve Colonoscopy Bowel Preparation	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
1121	True	A Veteran-Centered Approach to Military Sexual Trauma Screening: Learning from Veterans' Experiences and Perspectives	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3038	Haun	A Veteran-Centered Participatory Approach to Designing and Enhancing Integrated Digital Health Services	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
1061	Asch	Above and Beyond: How Do SCAN-ECHO Consultations Facilitate Communication between Primary and Specialty Care Providers?	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
1035	Sayre	Access and Scheduling Audit Survey 2014: An Example of Inductive and Manifest Content Analysis Utilizing Distributed Coding for Very Rapid Analysis of Very Large Qualitative Data Sets	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
2015	Knight	Access to Genomic Innovations in Clinical Care for Veterans: Learning from the VA Genomic Medicine Collaboration	Other	WORKSHOP
3032	Naik	Adaptation and Implementation of an Evidence Based Intervention to Reduce Readmissions Following Major Abdominal Surgery	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	POSTER
1082	Mowery	Adapting a Natural Language Processing Algorithm to Support Stroke Cohort Generation	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
1131	Lund	Adverse Outcomes of High Risk Medication in Older Adult Veterans	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
1141	Thrall	Ambulatory Care Coordination Issues of Dual Use Solid Organ Transplant Recipients	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
3052	Bernardy	An Educational and Training Program Designed to Improve Treatment of PTSD in Rural Veterans	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
2011	Hoffberg	An Innovative Approach to Systematic Reviews on Veteran Health Topics Using Informatics and Web-Based Methods	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	WORKSHOP
1051	Maney	An Out of Range (OOR) Glycemic Population Health Safety Measure	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
3062	Graber	Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities within VA in 2012	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3159	Greer	Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Inpatient Hospital Settings: A Systematic Review	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
1106	Miech	Applying the CFIR Constructs Directly to Qualitative Data: The Power of Implementation Science in Action	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	PAPER
3050	Caverly	Appropriate Prescribing for Diabetic Patients at High-risk for Hypoglycemia: National Survey of VA Primary Care Providers	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
1049	Sox-Harris	Are Improvements in Measured Performance Driven by Better Treatment or "Denominator Management"?	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3017	Lehavot	Are there Sexual Orientation Disparities in Alcohol Misuse among Women Veterans?	Women's Health	POSTER
3165	Leatherman	Ascertainment of Clinical Outcomes from Electronic Medical Record Data for Point-of-Care Clinical Trials	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
1114	Jasuja	Ascertainment of Testosterone Prescribing Practices in the VA	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	PAPER
1095	Leecaster	Assessment of Hand Hygiene Adherence in Prevention of Clostridium difficile Acquisition	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
1088	Jones	Association of Characteristics of VA Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs with Antibiotic Use	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	PAPER
3133	Rosenfeld	Associations between Contraceptive Knowledge and Use of Prescription Contraception among Women Veterans	Women's Health	POSTER
1045	Fischer	Attitudinal Influences on Treatment-Seeking and Access to Mental Healthcare among Rural Veterans	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
3084	Garvin	Automated Measurement of Care Delivery to Heart Failure Patients within the Department of Veterans Affairs	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3019	Nugent	Automating Symptom Management Monitoring in an RCT (Strategies for Prescribing Analgesics Comparative Effectiveness (SPACE) Trial)	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
1079	Boockvar	Availability and Impact of Non-VA Medication Information in a Regional Health Information Exchange Tool	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
1055	Evans	Bacteria Isolated from Patients with Spinal Cord Injury Versus Other Patients: Is an SCI Unit-Specific Antibiogram Necessary?	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	PAPER
3134	Boockvar	Barriers and Facilitators to VA Providers' Use of a Regional Health Information Exchange Tool to Access non-VA Patient Health Information	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3015	Lambert-Kerzner	Baseline Evaluation of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) in the Veterans Health Administration	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3162	Rattray	Boundary Spanners: The Unique Role of the Nurse Practitioner in Developing Acute Stroke Care Programs within the VA	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1124	Katz	Can VHA Improve Primary Care for High-Risk, High-Need Patients? Lessons Learned During Early Implementation of PACT Intensive Management Programs	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
1028	Silveira	Cancer CarePartners: Can Family Caregivers Help Veterans Undergoing Chemotherapy Manage their Symptoms?	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	PAPER
3104	Gilmartin	Capturing the Central Line Bundle Infection Prevention Interventions: Comparison of Reflective and Composite Modeling Methods	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
1134	Whitehead	Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors in Women Veterans across the Lifespan	Women's Health	PAPER
3077	Santa Ana	Care Coordination Telehealth 'In-Home-Messaging Devices' Lower Alcohol Use in Dually Diagnosed Veterans	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
1052	Hutt	Challenges of Providing End of Life Care for Homeless Veterans	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3101	Robinson	Challenges to Increasing Access and Continuity in a Large Academic Primary Care Clinic Implementing the Patient-Centered Medical Home	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3020	Yoon	Changes in Utilization and Costs after PACT Implementation through Evidence-Based Quality Improvement	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3139	Bowersox	Changes in antipsychotic prescribing among patients with serious mental illness in the Veterans Health Administration medical system, FY2000-FY2013	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
3063	Lovejoy	Changes in pain intensity and pain treatment utilization in Veterans following discontinuation of long-term opioid therapy	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
1022	Liu	Clinical Practices Related to Lower Heart Failure Readmissions	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	PAPER
1150	Perez	Clinical Supervision Index: Measuring Supervision of Physician Residents in VA Medical Centers	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
1048	Winchester	Clinical Utility of Inappropriate Nuclear Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in a Veteran Population	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
1059	Goren	Clozapine Variation in the VA: A Qualitative Study	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
1027	Kanwal	Collaborative Care for Depression in Chronic Hepatitis C Clinics	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
1032	Karras	Communication Strategies to Increase Receptivity to Help-Seeking and Promote Mental Health Service Use	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
1157	Outcalt	Comorbid Chronic Pain and PTSD among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans: Longitudinal Analysis of Pain and Psychological Outcomes	Post-Deployment Health	PAPER
1146	Sutton	Comparative Budget Impacts of Medical Foster Homes and Community Living Centers	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	PAPER
3135	Calhoun	Comparative Effectiveness of an Internet-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention versus Clinic-Based Specialty Care for Veterans	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
1067	Tseng	Comparing Two Methods to Track Hospitalizations for Hypoglycemia Using Electronic Health Records in Veterans Health Administration Diabetes Patients	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	PAPER
1025	Frayne	Comprehensive Women's Health Provider Policy: The First Four Years	Women's Health	PAPER
1006	Rubinsky	Continuing Care after Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment in the VA Health Care System: Facilitators, Challenges, and Performance Measurement	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
1063	Luger	Continuing the Conversation: An Ongoing Follow-up of Personalized Health Plans	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	PAPER
3081	Barnett	Cost-effectiveness of integrating tobacco cessation into PTSD treatment	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	POSTER
1010	Shelton	Creation and Validation of a Near Real-Time Bladder Cancer Patient Tracking and Reporting Tool at Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
1151	Moeckli	Critical Care Education Needs at Rural VA Intensive Care Units	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
1041	Carlson	Cross Validation of the Veterans Mental Health Risk Screen	Other	PAPER
3012	Chaney	Customizing VA Depression Care Approaches in Response to Veterans' Needs and Preferences: A Novel Approach	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	POSTER
3121	Pogoda	Department of Veterans Affairs Provider Perceptions of Supported Employment Services to Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	POSTER
1117	Russ	Design and Evaluation of an Override Mechanism to Enhance Medication Safety for Veterans	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
2012	Gobbel	Developing Natural Language Processing Systems for Healthcare	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	WORKSHOP
3008	Spoont	Developing a PTSD pharmacotherapy provider support tool for CPRS	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3115	Larsen	Developing a Toolkit to Assist in the Implementation of Clinical Video Telehealth into the Home for Mental Health Providers: A Formative Evaluation	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3071	LaVela	Developing and Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the Respirator Comfort, Wearing Experience, and Function Instrument (R-COMFI)	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
1093	Saini	Developing and Testing an Electronic Measure of Screening Colonoscopy Overuse in a Large Integrated Healthcare System	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	PAPER
1155	Cordasco	Development and Formative Evaluation of VHA's Maternity Care Coordinator Telephone Care Program	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
3187	Williams	Development and Validation of an Automated Functional Assessment Algorithm	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
3105	Sauer	Development and validation of NLP software for extracting data on pulmonary function tests	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
1040	Washington	Development of an Electronic Health Record Quality Measurement Tool for the Care of Women with Abnormal Uterine Bleeding	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
3113	Brown	Development of an automated tool to identify and extract functional status data from national VA data sources	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	POSTER
1138	Pigeon	Development, Results and Refinement of a Primary Care-Based Insomnia Intervention for Depressed Veterans with and without Suicidal Ideation	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3163	Wong	Did Massachusetts Health Reform Impact VA Primary Care Use?	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
3047	Lampman	Differences in Patient-Aligned Care Team (PACT) Performance in Urban and Rural VA Primary Care Clinics	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3178	Brignone	Differential Risk for Homelessness among Veterans with a Positive Screen for Military Sexual Trauma	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
3191	Driscoll	Differentiating Mild Versus Clinically Meaningful Chronic Pain Among Recent Service Veterans	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
2009	McCullough	Direct Observation Methods for Health Services and Implementation Research	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	WORKSHOP
1076	Byrne	Do Patient Aligned Medical Team Models of Care Impact VA's Clinical Learning Environments?	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	PAPER
3073	Turcios	Do Perceptions Of Family-Centered Care Differ in Older and Younger Family/Caregivers?	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	POSTER
3147	Goldstein	Do Practice Based Research Networks add value to VA implementation research?	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	POSTER
3107	Tseng	Do Prevention Quality Indicators Underestimate Preventable Hospitalizations?	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1105	Etingen	Does Integrative Health Coaching Impact Health Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization among Veterans Who are Homeless or at Risk for Homelessness?	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
1120	Levy	Does Medical Foster Home Placement Prevent Hospitalization?	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
3127	Smith	Does mode of survey administration matter? Using measurement invariance to validate the mailed version of the Bereaved Family Survey (BFS)	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	POSTER
3002	Crawford	Does the Adoption of Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Structure Improve Health Care Delivery?	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1126	Ohl	Does the Specialty Care Access Network-Extension for Community Health Outcomes (SCAN-ECHO) Model Apply to HIV Care? Experience from Three Facilities	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
1005	Axon	Dual Healthcare System Use Is Associated with Higher Rates of Hospitalization and Hospital Readmission among Veterans with Heart Failure	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
3016	West	Dual Use of VA and non-VA Hospitals by Veterans with Multiple Hospitalizations	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
3004	Haverhals	E-Consult Implementation: Lessons Learned Using Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3145	Barry	Early implementation of patient-centered, team-based care in mental health: a qualitative evaluation of staff perceptions	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1036	Nelson	Economic Analysis of Veterans Affairs Initiative to Prevent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infections	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	PAPER
1064	Vassy	Effect of Baseline Timeframe on Potential Bias in Risk Factor Assessment in an EHR-Based Cohort	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
3058	Yeh	Effect of a Tailored Behavioral Intervention to Lower Sodium Intake in Veterans with Repeated Uncontrolled Hypertension	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3102	Cully	Effectiveness and Implementation of Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in VA Primary Care Settings	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1159	Owen	Effectiveness of an Implementation Strategy to Improve Metabolic Side Effect Monitoring for Patients Prescribed Antipsychotics	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
1046	Miake-Lye	Electronic Health Record-Based Interventions for Improving Appropriate Diagnostic Imaging: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
3093	Vogt	Employment Outcomes and PTSD in Female OEF/OIF Veterans	Women's Health	POSTER
2013	Zickmund	Engaging Veterans across the Research Continuum	Other	WORKSHOP
1065	Grubbs	Enhancing Problem Solving Therapy in Primary Care-Mental Health Integration Using SmartPhone Technology	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
2005	Van Houtven	Essentials of Partnered Program Evaluation: Lessons from QUERI-funded Partnered Evaluation Centers (PECs)	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	WORKSHOP
3176	Taylor	Evaluating 6 Hepatitis C Case Finding Algorithms using Electronic Administrative Data in the Absence of a Gold-Standard	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3130	Cornwell	Evaluating Associations between Primary Care-Mental Health Integration Program Characteristics and Program Performance	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3182	Cronkite	Evaluating a Model of Mentorship Outcomes of HSR&D Career Development Awardees	Other	POSTER
1078	Mattocks	Evaluating a VISN-wide Maternity Care Coordination Demonstration Program for Pregnant Veterans	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
1140	Battaglia	Evaluation of Electronic Consultations in the VHA: The Providers' Perspectives	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
1142	Drews	Evaluation of a Health Care Icon Set	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
3092	Besterman-Dahan	Evaluation of the Impact of Community-Based Agricultural Initiatives on Community Reintegration in Rural Veterans	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
3140	Williams	Evidence Mapping - Do Systematic Reviews Report the Inclusion of Women and Sex as a Moderator of Intervention Effects?	Women's Health	POSTER
1074	Engle	Evidence-Based Practice and Patient-Centered Care: Doing Both Well	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	PAPER
3118	Kim	Examining the Experiences of General Mental Health Clinic Staff in Implementing Collaborative Care	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3183	Fix	Examining the Implementation of VA's Personal Health Planning Tool for Veteran-Centered Care	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	POSTER
1143	Gordon	Experiences of Discrimination in a Prospective Cohort of Veterans with Heart Failure	Health Equity	PAPER
1118	Toyinbo	Exploring Blast Exposure Effects Using Bayesian Network (BN) Modeling	Post-Deployment Health	PAPER
3138	Ersek	Exploring Nonresponse Bias for the Department of Veterans Affairs' Bereaved Family Survey	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	POSTER
3029	Solimeo	Exploring the Invisible Role of Administrative Associates in Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACTs)	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	POSTER
3023	Makris	Exposure to High Risk Medications is Associated with Worse Outcomes in Older Veterans with Chronic Pain	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
1137	Hanchate	External Determinants of Non-Elderly Veterans' Demand of VA Healthcare	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
3067	Kim	Extracting Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction, a Marker of Heart Function, from Semi-structured and Unstructured Data	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3154	Clark	Facilitating Citizenship: The Work of Peer Support Providers in Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Services	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
3099	Bradley	Facility-level variation in hospitalization, mortality, and costs in the 30-days following percutaneous coronary intervention	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	POSTER
1136	Kimerling	Factors Affecting Dual System Mental Health Service Use among Women Veterans using VHA Primary Care	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
1103	Sullivan	Factors Affecting Implementation of a Patient-Centered Non-Institutional Long-Term Care Grant Program in the Veterans Health Administration	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
1026	Bohnert	Factors Associated with Opioid Overdose Death among VHA Patients Age 50 and Older Prescribed Opioids	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
3069	Cucciare	Factors Impacting Women's Disclosure of Alcohol Misuse in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study with U.S. Military Veterans	Women's Health	POSTER
1039	Copeland	Five-Year Mortality Correlates for Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan	Post-Deployment Health	PAPER
3177	Oliva	Formative Evaluation of Life-Saving Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) in VISNs 10 and 21	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1090	Bergman	Fostering Constructive Research-Operations Partnerships: Qualitative Findings from VA’s Quality Enhancement Research Initiative Evaluation	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
2002	Reiber	Fostering VA/DoD Health Care Research Collaboration	Post-Deployment Health	WORKSHOP
2008	Jackson	From Evidence to Implementation of New Clinical Procedures: VA's Response to Lung Cancer Screening	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	WORKSHOP
1116	Vaughan Sarrazin	Gastrointestinal Bleeding with Dabigatran and Warfarin in Patients with Impaired Renal Function	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
1083	Zickmund	Gender Differences in Satisfaction with VA Health Care	Women's Health	PAPER
3028	Goldstein	Gender differences in satisfaction and confidence in lipid control among high risk Veterans	Women's Health	POSTER
1091	Bollinger	Geographic Variation and Community Attributes Affecting VA Mental Health Appointment Wait Times	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
1057	Nelson	Graphical Diagnostic Methods for Generalized Linear Models and Proportional Hazards Models	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
3170	Cohen	Great, we've improved care quality, but how much did it cost?	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	POSTER
1104	LaVela	Healthcare Worker Influenza Declination Form Program	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3188	Morgan	Hepatitis C System Redesign in an Era of Transformation	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3186	Primack	High Risk Suicidal Veterans: Characterizing an Inpatient Psychiatric Sample	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1009	Rosland	Higher Level of Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation Associated with Larger Improvements in Clinical Quality in the PACT Initiative	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3109	Haverhals	Housing Our Heroes: Facilitators to Growth of VA Medical Foster Home Programs	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3046	Tang	Identifying Provider Factors associated with PSA screening among Elderly Veterans with Limited Life Expectancy.	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
3011	Spehar	Identifying Risk Factors for Wheelchair Falls and Injuries in Elderly Veterans	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
1002	Turvey	Impact of Veteran-Mediated Health Information Sharing on Quality of Care for Dual-Use Veterans	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
3053	de Groot	Impact of the Suppression of Substance Abuse Claims in Medicare and Medicaid Data: Implications for Research on Population Health in Veterans	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
1101	Yank	Implementation Evaluation of a National Online Course for Family Caregivers of Veterans: Targets for Optimizing Web-Based Program Dissemination	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3006	Annis	Implementation and Integration of the Veterans Health Administration Nurse Staffing Methodology Directive in Budget Development	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3036	Walters	Implementation evaluation of the peer-based BuddytoBuddy program	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1100	Young	Implementation of Evidence-Based Employment Services for Veterans with Serious Mental Illness	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	PAPER
1125	Brockmann	Implementation of VHA Primary Care-Mental Health Integration Services: Findings from the 2014 PACT PC-MHI Survey	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
1033	Wong	Implementation of the Patient Aligned Care Teams Initiative and Primary Care Use: Differences by Patient Comorbidity Burden	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3041	Robinson	Implementation of the Veterans Health Administration Staffing Methodology Directive in Acute Care Medical Centers: A National Qualitative Project	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3103	Bauer	Implementing Telehealth to Extend the Reach of Collaborative Care for Serious Mental Illness: the First 400 VA National Bipolar Telehealth Referrals	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
1097	Moin	Implementing the Diabetes Prevention Program in the VA: Weight Outcomes from a Clinical Demonstration Project	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3085	Guihan	Implementing the Spinal Cord Injury Pressure Ulcer Monitoring Tool	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	POSTER
1113	Nayar	Improving Communication between VHA and non-VHA Providers: Implications for Veteran-Centered Dual Care	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
1129	Rosland	Improving Diabetes Management by Engaging Family Supporters in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Pilot Intervention	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	PAPER
1096	Young	Improving Weight in Veterans with Serious Mental Illness: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Computerized Weight Services with Peer Coaches	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
3079	Rose	Improving a Quality Measure in Response to Stakeholder Feedback	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
3076	Silverman	Incorporating Community Health Workers into VA Care: What Do Veterans Think?	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	POSTER
2004	Matza	Incorporating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Veterans into Health Services Research	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	WORKSHOP
3024	Matza	Incorporating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Veterans into Health Services Research	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
3083	McCarthy	Incorporating evidence-based dual-diagnosis treatments into VA homelessness Services	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	POSTER
3137	Bowersox	Increased off-label prescribing of psychotropic medications in VHA patients with dementia relative to those without, FY2012	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1004	Stecker	Increasing Treatment-Seeking among at-Risk Service Members Returning Veterans from War Zones	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	PAPER
3088	Partin	Individual and Organizational Predictors of Cancelled and Missed Colonoscopy Appointments: An Observational Study.	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	POSTER
3094	Spoont	Inequity in Psychotherapy Services among Racial and Ethnic Minority Veterans with PTSD	Health Equity	POSTER
1003	Nelson	Information Seeking by Pharmacists in the Electronic Health Record: (INSPIRE) Study	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
1068	Sripada	Initial Group versus Individual Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Subsequent Follow-Up Treatment Adequacy	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
1053	Matheny	Institutional Variation in Acute Kidney Injury Following Cardiac Catheterization: Insights from the National VA CART Program	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
3018	Hundt	Integrating Peer Providers into the System of PTSD Care	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
3161	Dang	Integration of MyHealtheVet (MHV) into the Management of Heart Failure (HF) patients in the Patient-Aligned Care Teams (PACTs)	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
1154	Fried	Integration of the Electronic Health Record and a Clinical Decisions Support System Addressing High-Risk Medications in Older Adults	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
3108	McCullough	Introducing a new performance measure into practice: Attitude and behavior shifts among frontline staff	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	POSTER
3152	Wong	Is Hospital Distance Associated with 30-Day Readmission among VA Enrollees?	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3128	Khambaty	Knowledge isn't Everything: Role of Affect and Coping in Diabetes Care for Rural Adults with Uncontrolled Diabetes	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3095	Blosnich	Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) sociopolitical indicators and mental health diagnoses among transgender Veterans receiving VA care	Health Equity	POSTER
3009	Murphy	Leveraging VINCI Data to Identify Patients at Risk for Delays in Follow-up of Abnormal Lung Imaging	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3167	Abrams	Lifetime Sexual Assault and Emergency Room Use: A study examining the temporal relationship of single and repeat assaults on ER use in women veterans	Women's Health	POSTER
2010	Wagner	Managing High Cost, Multimorbid Patients	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	WORKSHOP
1148	Redd	Maximizing Clinical Cohort Size Using Free Text Queries	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
3164	Ward	Measuring Disease Severity using Latent Class Modeling of Comorbidities	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
1038	Bouldin	Medicare-VHA Dual System Use is Associated with Poorer Chronic Wound Healing	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
3051	Hebert	Methods for measuring racial differences in hospital outcomes attributable to disparities in use of high-quality hospital care	Health Equity	POSTER
2003	True	Methods, Materials, and Ethics of Community-Engaged and Participatory Action Research in VHA: Learning from Ongoing Veteran-Researcher Collaborations	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	WORKSHOP
3013	Gilmore	Military Sexual Trauma and Co-Occurring Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depressive Disorders, and Substance Use Disorders among OEF/OIF Veterans	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
1042	Burgess	Misconceptions about Racial Healthcare Disparities May Prevent Providers from Perceiving Disparities in VA	Health Equity	PAPER
3089	Hoerster	Multilevel Correlates of Dietary Behavior among Veterans	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	POSTER
3175	Bolton	My HealtheVet: Perspectives of Veterans and their Informal Caregivers	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	POSTER
1122	Barnett	National Clinical Dataset Characterizes Changes in Veteran Tobacco Use	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
3087	Curran	National Guard/Reservist Recommendations On Improving Linkage to Treatment and Treatment Programming	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
1030	Wang	New Propensity Score Subclassification-Based Estimators	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
3199	Smith	Nonsuicide mortality associated with lithium and valproate treatment in Veterans Health Administration patients with mental health diagnoses	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
3086	Yu	NoteAid: A System that Helps Veterans Comprehend their own EHR Notes	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3194	Sadler	OEF/OIF Reserve/National Guard Service Women's Perceptions of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for PTSD Post-Deployment	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
1071	Sadler	OEF/OIF Servicewomen Deployed to Combat Regions: The Impact of Sexual Assault in Military on Post-Deployment Readjustment and Social Support	Post-Deployment Health	PAPER
1015	Denneson	OEF/OIF Veterans' Experiences with Suicidal Ideation: Implications for Intervention	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3124	Sakr	OEF/OIF/OND Veterans With Back Pain: Characteristics, and Predictors of Compensation and Pension Award	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
3048	Shaw	Obstetric Outcomes in the VA - Comparison with a Nationally Representative Sample to Guide Future VA Research and Quality Measures	Women's Health	POSTER
3158	Suda	Opioid use in Veterans eligible for VA and Medicare Part D and predictors for overlap within and among VA and Medicare Part D-reimbursed pharmacies	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1031	Rinne	Organizational Factors and Risk of Readmission among Veterans Hospitalized for COPD	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	PAPER
3096	Sperber	Organizational Readiness to Implement a National Lung Cancer Screening Program within the VHA	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3039	Lam	Outcomes of Minimal Depression Treatment and Follow-up Measures for Women Veterans	Women's Health	POSTER
3097	Fisher	Overuse and Underuse of Colonoscopy for Screening and Surveillance in the VA Healthcare System	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	POSTER
1013	Gidwani	Overuse of Lumbar Spine MRI in VA: A National Analysis	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	PAPER
1070	Levine	PC-MHI Provider Staffing and Quality of Depression Care	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
1072	Phibbs	PTSD and Antepartum Complications: Increased Risk of Gestational Diabetes and Preeclampsia	Women's Health	PAPER
1066	Burg	PTSD, PTSD Treatment, and Risk for Incident Hypertension in OIF/OEF/OND Veterans	Post-Deployment Health	PAPER
1111	Shimada	Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Experiences with Secure Messaging at Two Early Adopter Facilities	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
1110	Crowley	Patient Perceptions of Effective, Scalable Telemedicine Care for Veterans with Persistent Poor Diabetes Control	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
1017	Hausmann	Patient Racial/Ethnic Composition and Other Facility Characteristics Associated with Delivery of Patient-Centered Care in VHA Outpatient Facilities	Health Equity	PAPER
1133	Tarlov	Patient-Centered Care Innovations and Patient Experiences with VA Care	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3172	Simonetti	Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation and Burnout among VA Primary Care Employees	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	POSTER
3193	Goldstein	Patient-Centered Rather than Disease-Centered CDS for Health Professionals: Steps Toward Coordinating Multiple Guidelines for the Same Patient	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
1034	Cohen	Patient-Facing Kiosks for Veterans with Schizophrenia: Reducing Risk by Dynamically Identifying Service Needs	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
3074	Hill	Patients' use of photovoice to define function, barriers and facilitators experienced, and adaptations to barriers	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
1153	Hamilton	Perceived and Objective Mental Health Complexity among Women in VA Primary Care, Alison Hamilton	Women's Health	PAPER
3022	Mattocks	Perceived stigma, discrimination, and disclosure of sexual orientation among a sample of lesbian Veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs	Health Equity	POSTER
3034	Malhiot	Perceptions of Patient-Centered Care in VAMCs and CBOCs	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
1080	Damush	Perceptions of a Stroke QI Collaborative on Acute Stroke Care within VHA	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	PAPER
3181	Johnson	Perceptions of the VA Specialty Care Access Network-Extension for Community (SCAN-ECHO) Program Among Rural Providers	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
1011	Tuepker	Pieces of PACT: Realist Evaluation of Primary Care Clinics' Experiences Implementing the Patient Aligned Care Team Initiative	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
1008	Uphold	Pilot Test of a Low-Cost, Telephone and Online Intervention for Caregivers of Veterans Post Stroke	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	PAPER
3153	Polusny	Predictors and Influence of Spouse/Partner Distress Trajectories Across Deployment on Veterans' Post-deployment Mental Health	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
3142	Bathulapalli	Predictors of Vigorous Physical Activity among Veterans Who Served in Support of Recent Conflicts	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
3195	Heapy	Preliminary results of a technology-assisted intervention to promote walking among Veterans with chronic pain	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3117	Pavao	Prevalence and Risk for Past-Year Intimate Partner Violence among Women Veterans	Women's Health	POSTER
3021	Hawkins	Prevalence and Trends of Concurrent Opioid Analgesic and Benzodiazepine Use Among Veterans Affairs Patients with PTSD, 2003 - 2011	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1016	Blonigen	Provider Perceptions of Gaps in the Implementation of Best Practices to Reduce Recidivism among Justice-Involved Veterans	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	PAPER
1043	Dang	Provider Traits that Patients Value Most and the Implications for Enhanced Engagement in their Own Care: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	PAPER
3190	Saha	Provider cultural competence and racial disparity in doctor-patient relationships	Health Equity	POSTER
1145	Finley	Psychotherapy Practices for Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Community-Based Providers in Texas	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3054	Zeber	Psychotropic Pharmacotherapy Associated with QT Prolongation among Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1108	Kehle-Forbes	Qualitative Analysis of Women Veterans' Experiences Seeking VA Care: Findings from a Sample of Former PTSD Disability Applicants	Women's Health	PAPER
1128	Lerner	Qualitative Assessment of VA Telegenomic Clinic Implementation	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
1109	Denneson	Qualitative Content Analysis of VA Healthcare Records of Veteran Women who Died by Suicide	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
2006	Sayre	Qualitative Interviewing: The Art and Rigor of Eliciting Rich Trustworthy Data	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	WORKSHOP
3116	Petersen	Racial Differences in the Control of Hypertension: Examining Medication Adherence and Treatment Intensification	Health Equity	POSTER
3035	Kutney-Lee	Racial and Ethnic Disparities in End of Life Care Among Veterans	Health Equity	POSTER
3044	Rosenfeld	Racial/ethnic Differences in Contraceptive Knowledge among Women Veterans	Women's Health	POSTER
3003	Allen	Randomized Clinical Trial of a Patient and Provider Intervention for Managing Osteoarthritis in Veterans	Other	POSTER
1075	Zulman	Randomized Controlled Evaluation of an Intensive Management Patient Aligned Care Team (ImPACT) for High-Need, High-Cost Primary Care Patients	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	PAPER
3043	Miller	Rapid framework assessment of VA policy implementation of interdisciplinary mental health care	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1115	Chavez	Rapid, Partnered Evaluation of Pressure Ulcer Documentation to Improve Clinical Practices and Patient Care	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3049	Grubaugh	Reactions to Exposure Therapy for PTSD among Patients with Schizophrenia	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
3075	Kroll-Desrosiers	Receipt of Prescription Opioids in a National Sample of Pregnant Veterans Receiving Veterans Health Administration Care	Women's Health	POSTER
1012	Kashner	Recommendations from HSR&D's Panel on Statistics and Analytics on VHA Datasets	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
1058	Phibbs	Reconciliation of Different Estimates of the Impact of Nurse Staffing on Patient Outcomes: The Effect of Data Aggregation and Estimation Methods	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
3025	Barbaresso	Reduced Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Veterans with Serious Mental Illness: 12-Month Results from SMI Life Goals Randomized Trial	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1119	Liu	Reliance on VA Outpatient Care among Medicare-Eligible Veterans from 2004 to 2011	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
1081	Walters	Reported Barriers to Mental Health Care in Three Sequential Samples of a Midwestern Army National Guard	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3150	Hostetter	Research Application of Adaptive Double Data Entry Procedures	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
3007	Wagner	Risk Adjustment Tools for Learning Health Systems: the development of the Nosos risk score	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	POSTER
3122	Pugh	Risk Factors for Headache and Persistent Headache in an Inception Cohort of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
1152	Cook	Risk-Adjustment Approach Impacts Identification of High and Low Performance Hospitals	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	PAPER
1156	Delevan	Roles and Responsibilities of Non-Researchers in VA QUERI Research-Operations Partnerships	Other	PAPER
3146	Schopfer	Rural Veterans Prefer Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3180	Oliva	Rural Veterans' Uses of and Preferences for Communications Technology in Support of Heart Failure Self-Care in the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3132	Bohnert	Same-day integrated mental health services for those who screen positive for PTSD in VHA primary care: Implications for diagnosis and treatment	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1014	Frayne	Screen of Drug Use: Diagnostic Accuracy of a New Brief Tool for Primary Care	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3098	Katon	Select adverse pregnancy outcomes among women Veterans deployed in service of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom	Women's Health	POSTER
3169	Levy	Sequence of Functional Decline among Veterans in VA Nursing Homes	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
3026	Gibson	Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and Physical Victimization during Military Service across Age Cohorts of Women Veterans	Women's Health	POSTER
1069	Hamid	Social Network Analysis to Quantify Changes in Coordination of Epilepsy Care in Veteran Health Administration from 2000-2013	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
1085	Chou	Specifying an Implementation Framework for VA Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	PAPER
1087	Pugh	Stability of Health Trajectories Among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans: Insights from Central Nervous System Medication Use	Post-Deployment Health	PAPER
3143	Goulet	Statistical methods for the analysis of pain intensity numeric rating scale data	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
1144	Zuchowski	Strategies for Meeting Women Veterans' Mental Health Needs: The Potential of Tele-Mental Health	Women's Health	PAPER
1127	Young	Substance Use Disorder Treatment Staff Acceptance of Intensive Referral to 12-Step Groups: Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	PAPER
3156	Zubkoff	Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Integrated Primary Care Mental Health	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
3129	Louzon	Suicidal Ideation as Indicated by the PHQ-9: Assessing Associations with Suicide Mortality Among Veterans Health Administration Patients	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1102	Smith	Suicide Risk Associated with the Initiation of Lithium or Valproate in Veterans Health Administration Patients with Mental Health Diagnoses	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3042	Mills	Suicide on inpatient mental health units	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
3197	Carlson	Supported Employment for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury: Needs and Interests	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	POSTER
1086	Natarajan	Sustainability of a Behavioral Intervention to Lower Systolic Blood Pressure and Improve Hypertension Control: Outcomes of a Randomized Trial	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
3111	Rosen	Sustained Use of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy by Graduates of the Prolonged Exposure Training Program	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3174	Greenbaum	Symptom Presentation and VHA Prescription of Sleep Medications for Veterans with PTSD	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1132	Mawanda	Systemic Bacterial Infections and the Risk of Dementia among U.S. Veterans: A Retrospective Cohort Study	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
3068	Moeckli	Teamwork and ICU Telemedicine	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3064	Duan-Porter	Technology Use and Related Attitudes Among Veterans and Their Informal Caregivers	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
1135	Kummerow Broman	Telehealth for Surgical Follow-Up of Veterans: Examining Indications, Outcomes, and Patient Preferences	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
3155	Azevedo	Telephone Care Management in Outpatient PTSD Treatment	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
1158	Bollinger	Texas Veterans and the Affordable Care Act: Using Community-Based Participation Research to Inform Survey Development	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	PAPER
2001	Souden	The "Big Data" Frontier: Learning to Work with Data in the Corporate Data Warehouse	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	WORKSHOP
1047	Nelson	The Association of Neighborhood Environment and Mortality: Results from a National Study of Veterans	Other Vulnerable or High-Priority Populations	PAPER
3061	Song	The Burden of Central Nervous System Polypharmacy in Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans: Prevalence and Associated Risks	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
1098	Brown	The Determinants of C. difficile Infection in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Portrait of Patient- and Facility-Level Factors across 90 VA Care Regions	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
3082	Bravata	The Development and Validation of Clinical Performance Measures	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
1073	Makarov	The Effect of Healthcare System on Appropriateness of Prostate Cancer Imaging: Do Patients Get Better Care in VA or Fee-for-Service Medicare?	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	PAPER
1024	Ilgen	The Efficacy of Non-Pharmacologic Pain Management for Veterans Receiving Substance Use Disorder Treatment	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3005	Finley	The Family Resilience Scale for Veterans (FRS-V): Development and Preliminary Validation among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
3014	Reisinger	The ICU Telemedicine Black Box: Qualitative Analysis of Telemedicine Utilization in VA Intensive Care Units	Access, Rural Health and Telehealth	POSTER
3192	Jordan	The Impact of Integrative Health Coaching on Health Care Costs and Utilization among Homeless Veterans	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
3030	Fox-Galalis	The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Employment-Related Outcomes among OEF/OIF Veterans	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
1107	Pizer	The Overlooked Importance of Glucose Variability in Type 2 Diabetes	Patient Safety & Quality	PAPER
3179	Pal Chee	The Persistence of High Costs among Veterans Using the VA	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	POSTER
1077	Hynes	The Relationship Between Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment and Veterans' Use of VHA Services	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
3106	Fox-Galalis	The Relationship between Mental Health Stigma and Physical Health in OEF/OIF Veterans	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
3125	Giannitrapani	The Role of Middle Managers in Supporting Interdisciplinary Primary Care Teams	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	POSTER
1060	Benzer	The Role of Team Processes for Improving Diabetes Quality of Care	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	PAPER
1094	Jung	The SMILE BP Toolkit: Intervention Translation into Toolkit, Formative Evaluation of Toolkit Implementation, and Finalization for Dissemination	Other	PAPER
1062	Gabrielian	The Social Context of Housing Transitions among Homeless Veterans with Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3031	Belanger	The VA's TBI Clinical Reminder Screen and Evaluation - Practice Patterns	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
1007	Souden	The VHA Data Portal: Understanding User Needs in a Diverse Learning Organization	Other	PAPER
1099	Intrator	The Veterans Health Administration Residential History File: A Resource for Research and Operations	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
3196	Cottrell	The feasibility and effectiveness of creating a library of patient narratives to inform patient-centered research and practice in the VA	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	POSTER
3131	Bokhour	The impact of a stories based educational DVD on patients' intentions to change hypertension management behaviors: A randomized control trial.	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	POSTER
3045	Muir	The influence of oral statin medications on the progression of glaucoma	Other	POSTER
1018	Taylor	Three Year Trends in VHA Utilization and Costs Following Screening among Veterans with Deployment-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury	Post-Deployment Health	PAPER
3120	Mudumbai	Time-to-Cessation of Postoperative Opioids: A National-Level Analysis of the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
3065	Swan	Tinnitus: Prevalence and Comorbidities in a Cohort of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans	Post-Deployment Health	POSTER
3091	Hausmann	Title: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Total Knee Arthroplasty in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System from 2001 - 2014	Health Equity	POSTER
3090	Yu	Towards Mining Electronic Health Records for Opioid ADE Surveillance	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3185	Washington	Trajectories in Physical Activity and Inactivity among Women Veterans in the Women's Health Initiative	Women's Health	POSTER
3198	Glover	Trauma and Health Risks among Women Veterans in their Communities: Fog, Detours, and Crashes on Pathways to Treatment	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
1089	Kelly	Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Women Veterans with PTSD who Experienced Military Sexual Trauma: A Feasibility Study	Women's Health	PAPER
3055	Williams	Treatment and survival disparities among veterans with early-stage lung cancer	Health Equity	POSTER
3166	Saechao	Trends in the Disease Burden of Women Veteran VHA Patients from 2003-2012	Women's Health	POSTER
1020	Pope	Triggers of Dual Use for VA and Non-VA Emergency Department (ED) and Other Services: Veteran Perspectives of Decision-Making with Heart Failure	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
3027	Bi	Turning 65: A Tipping Point in Women Veterans' Use of VA Primary Care	Women's Health	POSTER
1084	Rubin	Two Pilot Studies of a Computer-Based Relational Agent Compared to Human and Text-Based Screenings for Substance Misuse in Primary Care	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
1147	Radomski	Typologies of VA and Medicare Utilization among Dually Enrolled Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes: A Latent Class Analysis	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
3168	Bolton	Understanding Personal Health Planning Across VA	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3171	Cohen	Use of Complementary Alternative Medicine and Conventional Therapies for PTSD in a Veterans Administration Population:	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
2014	Taylor	Use of Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches in VA	Other	WORKSHOP
3010	Nugent	Use of Statistical Text Mining (STM) to Adjust Colonoscopy Follow-up Rates for Patients with Positive Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT+) Results	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
3173	Vanneman	Use of VA Outpatient Services for Veterans with Behavioral Health Conditions after Enrolling in Medicaid	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
3033	Yoon	Use of VA and Medicaid Services for Dual Enrollees	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
3141	Rosenthal	Use of VA and Medicare Services by Dually Eligible Veterans Receiving VA Primary Care After Implementation of Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT)	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
3072	Locatelli	Use of a novel method for measuring the patient experience: Results of guided tours with Veterans and employees/providers	Implementation Science Theory and Methods	POSTER
2007	Zeng	User-Friendly NLP Tools and Work Environment for Health Services Researchers	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	WORKSHOP
3060	Finch	Using Information Extraction to Measure Adherence to TBI Treatment Guidelines	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
1023	Thorpe	Using Machine-Learning Methods to Identify Key Drivers of Family Dissatisfaction with VA End-of-Life Care	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	PAPER
1037	Luther	Using PROMIS/NeuroQol Methods to Build Measures of the Impact of Deployment-Related PTSD on Health-Related Quality of Life	Post-Deployment Health	PAPER
3148	Huynh	Using a Modified Stepped Wedge Design to Evaluate TIDES-Collaborative Care Management (TIDES-CCM) Intervention on Depression Process of Care Measures	Research methods: New Statistical Methods, Research Designs and Data Tools	POSTER
3057	Mobarek	Using a Secure SharePoint Provider Reminder System Improves Rates of Inferior Vena Cava Filter Retrieval	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
3149	Zeber	Using an Innovative Pulsed Xenon Ultraviolet Ray Technology and Other Interventions to Reduce Hospital Associated Infections	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3001	Stevenson	Using the CFIR to guide analysis and dissemination of a national VHA Specialty Care Initiative	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3059	Klamerus	VHA Provider Attitudes about Choosing Wisely Recommendations	Cost, Efficiency, and Value in Healthcare	POSTER
1056	Wilt	VHA Research and Policymaking: VA ESP Efforts to Build Bridges	Other	PAPER
3080	Horstman	Validating Readmissions in the VA Risk-Standardized Readmission Rate	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	POSTER
1050	Phipps	Validation of Stroke Meaningful Use Measures in a National Electronic Health Record System	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
3123	Reisinger	Variation among Hand Hygiene Programs in the Veterans Health Administration	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
3056	Valenstein	Veteran College Students' Mental Health: A Nationally Representative Sample	Mental Health and Homelessness	POSTER
1160	LaCoursiere Zucchero	Veteran Dual Use: Results of a Systematic Review	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	PAPER
1092	McInnes	Veteran Use of Electronic Prescription Refill and its Association with Control of HIV	Health Information Technology, Informatics, and Analytics	PAPER
3037	Giordano	Veteran perspectives on interventions to improve retention in HIV care	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	POSTER
1054	Mengeling	Veteran-Generated Definitions of Military Sexual Trauma: Implications for MST Screening	Other	PAPER
1001	Hundt	Veterans' Perspectives on Initiating Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for PTSD	Mental Health and Homelessness	PAPER
3144	Stroupe	Veterans' Pharmacy and Healthcare Utilization following Implementation of the Medicare Part D Pharmacy Benefit	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
3189	Washington	Vulnerability for Healthcare Communication Gaps for Users of VA Purchased Care: Implications for the Veterans Choice Act	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
1139	Sedlander	We All Have Different Stories: Veterans' Preferences for Proactive Outreach to Manage Chronic Conditions	Veteran and Family Experience of Care	PAPER
1130	Gale	What are the Most Used and Most Helpful Facilitators for Implementation of a Patient-Centered Medical Home?	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	PAPER
3126	Vimalananda	What is specialty care coordination? Voice of the "triad" - patient, PCP and specialist	Care Coordination: VA and non-VA Care/Benefits	POSTER
2016	Kilbourne	When is a Project Quality Improvement? Navigating QUERI Operations versus Research Protocols	Other	WORKSHOP
3184	Helfrich	Which facilitators and barriers have the strongest correlations with implementation of a patient-centered medical home in VA?	Evaluation of Policy/Program Implementation and Dissemination	POSTER
3119	Burke	Within-hospital variation in 30-day readmission rates: implications for measuring quality	Patient Safety & Quality	POSTER
1029	Darling	Women Veterans' Experiences of Stranger Harassment at VA Medical Centers	Women's Health	PAPER
3078	Mortensen	ectronic Medical Record Based Intervention To Reduce Length Of Stay For Veterans Hospitalized With Pneumonia	Systems Improvement and Organizational Science	POSTER

VA Health Systems Research

2015 HSR&D/QUERI National Conference Abstracts