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Freed SS, Kaufman BG, Van Houtven CH, Saunders R. Using a home time measure to differentiate ACO performance for seriously ill populations. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2022 Sep 1; 70(9):2666-2676.
Kolodziej IWK, Coe NB, Van Houtven CH. The Impact of Care Intensity and Work on the Mental Health of Family Caregivers: Losses and Gains. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 2022 May 20; 77(Suppl_1):S98-S111.
Shepherd-Banigan M, Jones KA, Sullivan C, Wang K, Clark AG, Van Houtven C, Olsen JM. Individual and program Characteristics May Drive Variability in Outcomes After Caregivers Participate in a Tailored Support Intervention. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 2022 Aug 1; 41(8):1960-1970.
Shepherd-Banigan M, Smith VA, Stechuchak KM, Van Houtven CH. Informal Caregiver Support Policies Change Use of Vocational Assistance Services for Individuals With Disabilities. Medical care research and review : MCRR. 2022 Apr 1; 79(2):218-232.
Miller KEM, Gorges RJ, Konetzka RT, Van Houtven CH. The Metrics Matter: Improving Comparisons of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Nursing Homes. Journal of The American Medical Directors Association. 2021 May 1; 22(5):955-959.e3.
Dawson WD, Boucher NA, Stone R, VAN Houtven CH. COVID-19: The Time for Collaboration Between Long-Term Services and Supports, Health Care Systems, and Public Health Is Now. The Milbank Quarterly. 2021 Jun 1; 99(2):565-594.
Van Houtven CH, McGarry BE, Jutkowitz E, Grabowski DC. Association of Medicaid Expansion Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act With Use of Long-term Care. JAMA Network Open. 2020 Oct 1; 3(10):e2018728.
Boucher NA, Van Houtven CH, Dawson WD. Older Adults Post-Incarceration: Restructuring Long-term Services and Supports in the Time of COVID-19. Journal of The American Medical Directors Association. 2021 Mar 1; 22(3):504-509.
Van Houtven CH, Konetzka RT, Taggert E, Coe NB. Informal And Formal Home Care For Older Adults With Disabilities Increased, 2004-16. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2020 Aug 1; 39(8):1297-1301.
Shepherd-Banigan M, Pogoda TK, McKenna K, Sperber N, Van Houtven CH. Experiences of VA vocational and education training and assistance services: Facilitators and barriers reported by veterans with disabilities. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 2021 Jun 1; 44(2):148-156.
Coe NB, Van Houtven CH. Living Arrangements of Older Adults and COVID-19 Risk: It Is Not Just Nursing Homes. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2020 Jul 1; 68(7):1398-1399.
Van Houtven CH, DePasquale N, Coe NB. Essential Long-Term Care Workers Commonly Hold Second Jobs and Double- or Triple-Duty Caregiving Roles. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2020 Aug 1; 68(8):1657-1660.
Van Houtven CH. Caregivers Update: Briefing before the Briefing before VA Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Care Management and Social Work (Lisa Pape, LISW); 2020 May 4; Virtual Meeting due to COVID.
Shepherd-Banigan M, Smith VA, Lindquist JH, Cary MP, Miller KEM, Chapman JG, Van Houtven CH. Identifying treatment effects of an informal caregiver education intervention to increase days in the community and decrease caregiver distress: a machine-learning secondary analysis of subgroup effects in the HI-FIVES randomized clinical trial. Trials. 2020 Feb 14; 21(1):189.
Miller KEM, James HJ, Holmes GM, Van Houtven CH. The effect of rural hospital closures on emergency medical service response and transport times. Health services research. 2020 Apr 1; 55(2):288-300.
Boucher NA, Van Houtven CH. A Day in the Life during COVID-19: Long-term Care Providers in Durham, North Carolina. The Permanente journal. 2020 Jan 1; 24.
Jutkowitz E, Van Houtven CH, Plassman BL, Mor V. Willingness to Undergo a Risky Treatment to Improve Cognition Among Persons With Cognitive Impairment Who Received an Amyloid PET Scan. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders. 2020 Jan 1; 34(1):1-9.
Van Houtven CH, Sperber NR, Shepherd-Banigan M, Decosimo KP. Function QUERI and iHI-Fives: Briefing before the VA Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Care Management and Social Work (Lisa Pape, LISW); Acting Director of Caregiver Support Program (Jennifer Perez, LICSW); 2019 Oct 23; Washington, DC.
Van Houtven CH. Function QUERI - iHI-FIVES: Briefing before the VA Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Care Management and Social Work (Lisa Pape, LISW) and Acting Director of Caregiver Support Program (Jennifer Perez, LICSW); 2019 Sep 26; Durham, NC.
Van Houtven CH. Function QUERI and iHI-Fives: Briefing before the VA Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Care Management and Social Work (Lisa Pape, LISW); Acting Director of Caregiver Support Program (Jennifer Perez, LICSW); 2019 Sep 4; Durham, NC.
Song L, Guan T, Guo P, Keyserling TC, Van Houtven C, Tan X. Prevalence of cardiovascular disease and risk factors, quality of life, and health behaviors of cancer survivors and their spouses: findings from MEPS. Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice. 2019 Oct 1; 13(5):739-748.
Van Houtven CH, Allen KD, Hastings SN. Function QUERI - iHI-FIVES, STRIDE and Group PT: Briefing before the VA Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Care Management and Social Work (Lisa Pape, LISW); 2019 Jul 9; Durham, NC.
Van Houtven CH. iHI-FIVES Update and Program Sustainability: Briefing before the Caregiver Support Program (Meg Kabat, LCSW outgoing Director, and Elyse Kaplan, PsyD, Acting Director); 2019 Mar 20; Washington, DC.
Coe NB, Guo J, Konetzka RT, Van Houtven CH. What is the marginal benefit of payment-induced family care? Impact on Medicaid spending and health of care recipients. Health economics. 2019 May 1; 28(5):678-692.
Wolff JL, Drabo EF, Van Houtven CH. Beyond Parental Leave: Paid Family Leave for an Aging America. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2019 Jul 1; 67(7):1322-1324.
Hastings SN, Allen KD, Van Houtven CH, Wang V, Mahanna EP, Sullivan C. Optimizing Function and Independence QUERI. [Newsletter] Durham, NC: Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT); 2019 Feb 13. 2019 (February). Available from: https://www.durham.hsrd.research.va.gov/Newsletters.asp.
Hastings SN, Allen KD, Van Houtven CH, Wang V, Mahanna EP, Sullivan C. Optimizing Function and Independence QUERI. [Newsletter] Durham, NC: Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT); 2018 Oct 31. 2018 (October). Available from: https://www.durham.hsrd.research.va.gov/Newsletters.asp.
Van Houtven CH. [chvanhoutven]. Collaborating w/ The Poplar Bluff VAMC about ways to improve information flow, connections & diverse problem solving w/ the CONNECT intervention. Rollout of #iHIFIVES, the #Function_QUERI evidence-based clinical program for caregivers. #VAResearch @DurhamHSRD. Tweet. Durham, NC: Durham HSR&D COIN; 2018 Sep 26. Available from: https://twitter.com/chvanhoutven/status/1045065404891242496.
Van Houtven CH. [chvanhoutven]. New #research from CP3 affliliated faculty examines characteristics of dual drug benefit use among #veterans with #dementia. @maizenblueheels @walidgellad @CBGood23 @chvanhoutven https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30236896. Tweet. Durham, NC: Durham HSR&D COIN; 2018 Sep 24. Available from: https://twitter.com/PittCP3/status/1044215520822788096.
Van Houtven CH. [chvanhoutven]. Fall is coming & so is the rollout of our evidence-based program: Helping Invested Families Improve Veteran Experiences (#iHIFIVES)! #Function_QUERI @DurhamHSRD is helping @VAPugetSound & Poplar Bluff VAMCs launch the caregiver training and support program by October. #VAResearch. Tweet. Durham, NC: Durham HSR&D COIN; 2018 Sep 19. Available from: https://twitter.com/DurhamHSRD/status/1042485931863928832.
Van Houtven CH. [chvanhoutven]. There is Erin Horner! Transitional Care Management Program Manager and iHI-FIVES champion at Puget Sound VA. Theresa Blocker from Polytrauma (SW). Productive kick off and first training will be in October. Tweet. Durham, NC: Durham HSR&D COIN; 2018 Aug 14. Available from: https://twitter.com/chvanhoutven/status/1029480508755832833.
Van Houtven CH. [chvanhoutven]. Kick off site visit meeting with Tara and a fabulous team at gorgeous Puget Sound / American Lakes VA gearing up to train caregivers of Veterans - iHiFives - Function QUERI. Tweet. 2018 Aug 13. Available from: https://twitter.com/chvanhoutven/status/1029157499516084224.
Van Houtven CH. Helping Invested Families Improve Veterans' Experiences Study (HI-FIVES): Briefing before the Operations and Policy Leadership of GEC; 2018 Aug 2; Washington, DC.
Van Houtven CH. Identifying Caregivers: Challenges and Solutions from Implementation of iHI-FIVES within VHA: Briefing before the Operations and Policy Leadership of GEC; 2018 Aug 1; Washington, DC.
Van Houtven CH. Bringing Invisible Partners in Care out of the Shadows: Employment Effects of Informal Care Provision in Europe and Implications for the United States. Health services research. 2018 Aug 1; 53(4):2011-2019.
Van Houtven CH. [chvanhoutven]. Dr. Courtney Van Houtven discussed how the VA is engaging informal #caregivers. @vahsrd http://bit.ly/2FmSYip. Tweet. Durham, NC: Durham HSR&D COIN; 2018 Mar 6. Available from: https://twitter.com/duke_pophealth/status/971043951728787456.
Van Houtven CH. [chvanhoutven]. The iHI-FIVES Function QUERI team is gearing up for recruitment - if you are at a VA and want to deliver skills training to family caregivers, let us know. Tweet. Durham, NC: Durham HSR&D COIN; 2018 Feb 9. Available from: https://twitter.com/chvanhoutven/status/962136226793959424.
Van Houtven CH. Building a Nation of Caregivers: VA Medical Centers Provide a System-Wide Standard of Care for Eligible Veterans. Research Radio Media Tour (RMT). 2017 Nov 21.
Van Houtven CH. VA Choose Home Initiative Leadership Meeting: Briefing before the VA Deputy Secretary, Thomas Bowman, JD; and Chief Veterans Experience Officer, Lynda Davis, MD, PhD; 2017 Nov 8; Washington, DC.
Van Houtven CH. [chvanhoutven]. Helping our #veterans: the impact of PCAFC (and if you don't know what that is, read here to find out!). Tweet. 2017 Nov 1. Available from: https://twitter.com/SAGEHealthInfo/status/925798396547432451.
Hanks D, Hecht MI, Auffrey RR, Van Houtven CH. Podcast-5: Live from the Meeting: Family Caregiver Training. 2017 Jun 27. 1 (5). Available from: https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/news/podcasts/default.cfm.
Hastings SN, Allen KD, Van Houtven CH, Wang V, Mahanna EP, Sullivan C. Function QUERI (Optimizing Function and Independence QUERI) Introduction. [Newsletter] Durham, NC: Center for Health Services Research and Development in Primary Care COIN; 2017 Apr 13. Available from: https://www.durham.hsrd.research.va.gov/Newsletters.asp.
Hastings SN, Allen KD, Van Houtven CH, Wang V, Mahanna EP, Sullivan C. Function QUERI (Optimizing Function and Independence QUERI) Inaugural. [Newsletter] Durham, NC: Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care COIN; 2017 Feb 16. Available from: https://www.durham.hsrd.research.va.gov/Newsletters.asp.
Van Houtven CH, Sperber NR, Smith V, Miller K. Short-term Impacts of the VA Caregiver Support Program on Veterans and Caregivers. Durham, NC: Center For Health Services Research in Primary Care COIN; 2016 Sep 23. 153 p. Report No.: 3.
Smith V, Van Houtven CH. Comprehensive Support for Family Caregivers of Post-9/11 Veterans: Impact on Veteran Health Care Utilization and Costs. VIReC Partnered Research [Cyberseminar]. Health Services Research & Development. 2016 Sep 20.
Van Houtven CH, Griffin J, Kabat M, Sperber N, Tanielian T. How do Family Caregiver Support Policies Impact Patients, Caregivers and Health Systems? Evidence from the Partnered Evaluation of the VA Caregiver Support Program. Paper presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 27; Boston, MA.
Shepherd-Banigan M, Rutledge R, Van Houtven CH, Wells R, Hillemier M, Domino M. Participation in a pregnancy-related care coordination program and behavioral health service use among Medicaid-eligible women in North Carolina. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
Van Houtven CH, Kabat M, Sperber N, Griffin J, Tanelian T. How do Family Caregiver Support Policies Impact Patients, Caregivers and Health Systems? Evidence from the Partnered Evaluation of the VA Caregiver Support Program. Presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
Van Houtven CH. Family Spillovers of Long-term Care Insurance. Paper presented at: RAND Applied Micro-Economics Annual Seminar; 2015 Dec 7; Santa Monica, CA.
Jacobs JC, Van Houtven C, Laporte A, Coyte PC. Baby Boomer caregivers in the workforce: Do they fare better or worse than their predecessors? Journal of the economics of ageing. 2015 Dec 1; 6:89-101.
Van Houtven CH. Family Spillovers of Long-Term Care Insurance. Paper presented at: Virginia Commonwealth University Annual Seminar; 2015 Nov 19; Richmond, VA.
Van Houtven CH. Economics of Informal Care: Do We Know Enough to Advocate for Policy Change? Paper presented at: International Conference on Evidence-Based Policy in long-Term Care; 2015 Aug 29; London, England.
Van Houtven CH. Caregivers of Veterans with TBI: Economic Impacts. Paper presented at: VA State of the Art Summit on Traumatic Brain Injury Research; 2015 Aug 24; Washington, DC.
Duan-Porter W, Hastings SN, Neelon B, Van Houtven CH. Control Beliefs and Risk for Death, Stroke and Myocardial Infarction in Middle-aged and Older Adults: An Observational Study. Journal of general internal medicine. 2015 Aug 1; 30(8):1156-63.
Toth M, Holmes M, Van Houtven CH, Toles M, Weinberger M. Rural-Urban Differences in The Effect of Follow-Up Care and Home Health Services Use on Post-Discharge Outcomes. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2015 Jun 14; Minneapolis, MN.
Van Houtven CH. The VA Caregiver Support Evaluation Center Overview of Mixed Methods to Assess Short-Term Impacts of VA Caregiver Support on Veterans and Caregivers. Presented at: VA Palo Alto Health Care System Seminar; 2014 May 21; Palo Alto, CA.
Van Houtven CH. The VA Caregiver Support Evaluation Center: Overview of Mixed Methods to Assess Short-Term Impacts of VA Caregiver Support on Veterans and Caregivers. HERC Health Economics Seminar [Cyberseminar]. Caregiver Support, QUERI, CIDER. 2014 May 21.
Van Houtven CH, Voils CI, Weinberger M. An organizing framework for informal caregiver interventions: detailing caregiving activities and caregiver and care recipient outcomes to optimize evaluation efforts. BMC geriatrics. 2011 Nov 22; 11:77.
Van Houtven CH. Factors associated with financial strain among family caregivers of OEF/OIF polytrauma veterans. Presented at: International Health Economics Association Biennial World Congress on Health Economics; 2011 Jul 10; Toronto, Canada.
Van Houtven CH, vdr Heijden E, Coe N. Intervivos Transfers, Altruism and Retirement Income Uncertainty: an Experimental Investigation. Poster session presented at: International Health Economics Association Biennial World Congress on Health Economics; 2011 Jul 10; Toronto, Canada.
Wang V, Smith V, Oddone EZ, Olsen MK, McCant FA, Van Houtven CH. Cost analysis of a four-arm home- and telephone-based intervention for blood pressure management among primary care patients with hypertension. Paper presented at: VA HSR&D National Meeting; 2011 Feb 17; National Harbor, MD.
Van Houtven CH. Spousal Health Shocks and the Timing of the Retirement Decision in the Face of Forward-Looking Financial Incentives. Paper presented at: International Health Economics Annual Health Econometrics Workshop; 2010 Sep 30; Berkeley, CA.
Van Houtven CH, Griffin JM. A white paper on the current status of findings from informal caregiving research and recommendations for the VA. Paper presented at: VA Supporting Veterans At Home Conference; 2010 Jul 12; Arlington, VA.
Van Houtven CH. Is Informal Care Dynastic? The Role of Genetics and Preferences in Long-Term Care Insurance Decisions. Paper presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2010 Jun 29; Boston, MA.
Van Houtven CH. Is Informal Care Dynastic? The Role of Genetics and Preferences in Long-Term Care Insurance Decisions. Paper presented at: American Society of Health Economists Biennial Conference; 2010 Jun 22; Ithaca, NY.
Van Houtven CH. Spousal Health Shocks and the Timing of the Retirement Decision in the Face of Forward-Looking Financial Incentives. Paper presented at: American Society of Health Economists Biennial Conference; 2010 Jun 22; Ithaca, NY.
Thorpe JM, Van Houtven CH, Sleath BL, Thorpe CT. Rural-urban differences in preventable hospitalizations among community-dwelling veterans with dementia. The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association. 2010 Mar 1; 26(2):146-55.
Van Houtven CH, Oddone EZ, Weinberger M. Informal and formal care infrastructure and perceived need for caregiver training for frail US veterans referred to home and community-based services. Chronic Illness. 2010 Mar 1; 6(1):57-66.
Coe NB, Van Houtven CH. Caring for mom and neglecting yourself? The health effects of caring for an elderly parent. Health economics. 2009 Sep 1; 18(9):991-1010.
Thorpe JM, Van Houtven CH, Sleath BL, Clipp EC. Barriers to Outpatient Care in Community-Dwelling Elderly with Dementia: The Role of Caregiver Life Satisfaction. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 2009 Aug 1; 28(4):436-460.
Van Houtven CH. Health Effects of Caring for Elderly Parents. Paper presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2009 Jun 29; Chicago, IL.
Van Houtven CH. How to Improve Access to Health Care for Persons with Disabilities. Presented at: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference; 2008 Nov 7; Los Angeles, CA.
Van Houtven CH, Jeffreys AS, Coffman CJ. Home health care and patterns of subsequent VA and Medicare health care utilization for veterans. The Gerontologist. 2008 Oct 1; 48(5):668-78.
Van Houtven CH. Health, Work and Wealth Effects of Caring for Elderly Parents. Presented at: Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement Annual Conference; 2008 Jun 26; The Hague, Netherlands.
Van Houtven CH. Health, Work and Wealth Effects of Caring for Elderly Parents. Paper presented at: University of Lausanne Health Management and Organization Research Meeting; 2008 Mar 18; Tilburg, Netherlands.
Van Houtven CH. Informal Care Around the World. Paper presented at: Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting; 2008 Jan 4; New Orleans, LA.
Van Houtven CH, Norton EC. Informal care and Medicare expenditures: testing for heterogeneous treatment effects. Journal of Health Economics. 2008 Jan 1; 27(1):134-56.
Van Houtven CH. Is it Necessary to have a Home Care Network To Access Medicare's Hospice Benefit? Paper presented at: Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement Annual Conference; 2007 Oct 15; Tilburg, Netherlands.
Van Houtven C, Taylor D, Steinhauser K, Tulsky JA. Trajectories of serious illness. Paper presented at: International Health Economics Association Biennial World Congress on Health Economics; 2007 Jul 11; Copenhagen, Denmark.
Van Houtven C. A conceptual model of caregiver programs and caregiver and care recipient outcomes. Paper presented at: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Institute on Aging Annual Seminar; 2006 Nov 29; Chapel Hill, NC.
Van Houtven C. How do patients, families and caregivers define value and how do we measure it? Paper presented at: Alzheimer's Association Research Annual Roundtable; 2006 Nov 7; Washington, DC.
Van Houtven C. Informal Care and Medicare Expenditures: Testing for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects. Paper presented at: Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement Annual Conference; 2006 Oct 19; Netherlands.
Van Houtven C, Jeffreys A, Coffman C. Does home health care reduce subsequent VA and Medicare Utilization for Veterans? Paper presented at: University of Miami Southeastern Health Economics Study Group Annual Conference; 2006 Oct 6; Miami, FL.
Van Houtven CH, Weinberger M, Carey T. Implications of Nonadherence for Economic Evaluation and Health Policy. In: Bosworth HB, Oddone EZ, editors. Patient Treatment Adherence: Concepts, Intervention and Measurement. 1 ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2005. Chapter 14. 421-451 p.
Van Houtven CH, Domino ME. Home and community-based waivers for disabled adults: program versus selection effects. Inquiry : A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing. 2005 Mar 1; 42(1):43-59.