• Shook CB, Wray LO, Dollar KM, Matthieu MM, Peeples AD, Chinman M, Goldberg RW, Pomerantz AS. Implementation of peer specialists in Veterans Health Administration primary care: Improving program fidelity through enhanced preimplementation support. Psychological Services. 2024 Nov 14.
• Sellinger JJ, Rosen MI, Lazar CM, Gilstad-Hayden K, Dziura J, Li FY, Mattocks K, Weede A, Sullivan-Tibbs M, Rose L, Garcia Vassallo G, Manhapra A, Turner A, Vogt D, Woodward EN, Hartmann CW, Haskell SG, Mohammad A, Martino S. Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for pain management for veterans separating from military service: study protocol of a hybrid type 2 study testing implementation facilitation versus training-as-usual. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.). 2024 Nov 1; 25(Supplement_1):S99-S106.
• Landes SJ, Bourgeois JE, Curtis ND, Thropp JE, Panal ER, Spitzer EG, Jegley SM, Lauver M. Successful pilot implementation of mailing lethal means safety devices to veterans calling the Veterans Crisis Line. Frontiers in psychiatry. 2024 Oct 30; 15:1447639.
• Fu SS, Hammett P, Nelson D, Busch A, McKinney W, Sharma P, Patten CA, Gutierrez Sacasa N, Andreae L, Japuntich S. Evaluating chronic disease approaches to ameliorate tobacco-related health disparities: Study protocol of a hybrid type 1 implementation-effectiveness trial. Contemporary clinical trials communications. 2024 Dec 1; 42:101380.
• Loeb TB, Ramm K, Gholami M, Shedd K, Soetenga S, Bhagat M, Jackson NJ, Chung UYR, Duru OK, Mangione CM, Hamilton AB, Moin T. Implementation lessons learned from the University of California's Diabetes Prevention Program Initiative. BMC public health. 2024 Oct 11; 24(1):2777.

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• Telehealth Mindfulness-Based Interventions Improve Pain-Related Function and Biopsychosocial Outcomes Among Veterans with Chronic Pain
  This randomized clinical trial aimed to test the effectiveness of two scalable, 8-week telehealth mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) – group and self-paced – compared to usual care. Findings showed that both the group and self-paced MBI significantly improved pain-related function and biopsychosocial outcomes compared to usual care. Group and self-paced MBIs performed similarly. Averaged acros...
  
  Date: August 19, 2024
• Veterans with Atrial Fibrillation at VAMCs Serving More Minorities Less Likely to Receive Anticoagulation for Stroke Prevention
  This study sought to determine whether medical center racial/ethnic composition is associated with initiation of anticoagulant therapy for Veterans with incident AF. Findings showed that initiation of any anticoagulant and warfarin therapy was significantly lower among Veterans at VAMCs serving larger proportions of minoritized patients. There was no association between initiation of newer, guidel...
  
  Date: June 24, 2024
• QUERI Evaluation Identifies Barriers, Facilitators, Lessons Learned, and Strategies to Better Standardize Veteran Safety Practices Across VA and Community Care
  VA’s “Patient Safety Events in Community Care: Reporting, Investigation, and Improvement Guidebook” was designed to standardize safety practices across VA-delivered and VA-purchased care (i.e., community care). This project identified organizational barriers and facilitators related to Guidebook implementation, identified lessons learned during implementation, and developed strategies to improve f...
  
  Date: May 8, 2024
• VA’s Referral Coordination Initiative Does Not Measurably Affect VA or Community Care Wait Times or Community Care Referrals
  This study investigated whether the Referral Coordination Initiative (RCI) was associated with changes in the proportion of VA specialty referrals completed by community-based care (CC) providers and mean appointment waiting times for VA and CC providers. Findings showed that in the initial years of the RCI program, RCI implementation did not measurably affect CC referral rates or wait times at VA...
  
  Date: March 30, 2024
• PACT Implementation Associated with Potential Short-Term Improvement in Quality of Follow-Up for Certain Diagnostic Tests
  This study used 14 years (2006–2019) of nationwide VA data on Veterans who had abnormal test results related to diagnostic testing for six different cancers. Findings showed that PACT implementation was associated with a potential short-term improvement in the quality of follow-up for certain test results. Better PACT implementation was associated with a reduction in potentially missed timely foll...
  
  Date: March 14, 2024

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Systematic Review: Implementation of Psychotherapies and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Chronic Pain and Chronic Mental Health Conditions (01-20-2022)

Evidence Map – Implementation Factors Influencing the Transition from Emergency to Outpatient Care Settings (12-23-2021)

Systematic Review - Implementation of Psychotherapies and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Chronic Pain and Chronic Mental Health Conditions (11-22-2021)

Veteran Engagement Board Brings Lived Experience to OUD Treatment Implementation (03-04-2021)

Evidence Brief: Implementation of High Reliability Organization Principles (07-24-2019)

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