• Der-Martirosian C, Shin M, Upham ML, Douglas JH, Zeliadt SB, Taylor SL. Telehealth Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies During COVID-19 at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2022 Jul 22.
• Quinlan TAG, Roberts AW, Frank JW, Whittington MD. Health costs of women with chronic overlapping pain conditions by opioid and complementary and integrative health use. Health services research. 2021 Dec 1; 56(6):1233-1244.
• Bolton RE, Bokhour BG, Dvorin K, Wu J, Elwy AR, Charns M, Taylor SL. Garnering Support for Complementary and Integrative Health Implementation: A Qualitative Study of VA Healthcare Organization Leaders. Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.). 2021 Mar 1; 27(S1):S81-S88.
• Zeliadt SB, Coggeshall S, Gelman H, Shin MH, Elwy AR, Bokhour BG, Taylor SL. Assessing the Relative Effectiveness of Combining Self-Care with Practitioner-Delivered Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies to Improve Pain in a Pragmatic Trial. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.). 2020 Dec 12; 21(Suppl 2):S100-S109.
• Chang ET, Oberman RS, Cohen AN, Taylor SL, Gumm E, Mardian AS, Toy S, Revote A, Lewkowitz B, Yano EM. Increasing Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder and Complementary and Integrative Health Services in Primary Care. Journal of general internal medicine. 2020 Dec 1; 35(Suppl 3):918-926.

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• VA/HSR&D Research on Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies within VA
  Funded by HSR&D, this special issue of Medical Care highlights how research on complementary and integrative health (CIH) therapies in the VA healthcare system has progressed along the QUERI (Quality Enhancement Research Initiative) Implementation Roadmap – from pre-implementation to implementation to sustainment. CIH approaches are becoming more available throughout VA, due to: 1) increased imple...
  
  Date: September 1, 2020
• Many VA Patients Use and are Interested in Learning More about Complementary and Integrated Health Options
  In part to guide the expansion of evidence-based complementary and integrative health (CIH), VA leaders sought current information on Veterans’ interest in and use of various CIH approaches, both inside and outside the VA healthcare system. Thus, investigators in this study analyzed survey results from a large sample of Veterans on their interest in, use of, and satisfactions with 26 CIH approache...
  
  Date: April 22, 2019
• Women Veterans with Pain More Likely to Use Complementary and Integrative Therapies
  This study sought to examine complementary and integrative health (CIH) therapy use by gender among Veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain, and variations in gender differences by race/ethnicity and age. Findings showed that of Veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain, more women than men used CIH therapies (36% vs. 26%). Black women, regardless of age, were least likely to use CIH therapies...
  
  Date: September 1, 2018

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• https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/publications/vets_perspectives/1121-Examining-VA-Leadership-Support-for-Complementary-and-Integrative-Health-Therapies.cfm

  Leadership Support for Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies HSR&D’s monthly...highlights research conducted by HSR&D and/or QUERI investigators, showcasing the

• Evidence Brief: The Comparative Effectiveness of Selected Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Interventions for Preventing or Reducing Opioid Use in Adults with Chronic Neck, Low Back, and Large Joint Pain

  Effectiveness of Selected Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Interventions...Adults with Chronic Neck, Low Back, and Large Joint Pain...Effectiveness of Selected Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Interventions...Low Back, and Large Joint Pain 4 Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services

• Cost-Effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Treatments to Reduce Pain || In Progress

  ...ongoing HSR&D and QUERI studies that will help VA provide safe and effective pain...Contents Cost-Effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Treatments to Reduce...(MSD) pain (i.e., head, neck, knee, and back pain), is highly prevalent among

• Whole Health || FORUM

  Whole Health...Winter 2021 Whole Health Welcome to the Winter 2021 issue of HSR&D's FORUM which...focuses on Whole Health. Download PDF version Commentary Whole Health: Focusing on

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• Learn more about the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative’s Complementary and Integrative Health Partnered Evaluation Center.
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