• Rushton S, Lewinski AA, Hwang S, Zullig LL, Ball Ricks KA, Ramos K, Gordon A, Ear B, Ballengee LA, Brahmajothi MV, Moore T, Blalock DV, Williams JW, Cantrell SE, Gierisch JM, Goldstein KM. Barriers and facilitators to the implementation and adoption of improvement coaching: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2022 Apr 10.
• Fortney JC, Rajan S. , Reisinger H., Moeckli J., Nolan JP, Wong E., Rise P, Petrova V., Sayre G., Pyne J., Grubaugh A., Simsek F., Grubbs KM, Morland L., Felker B., Schnurr PP. Deploying a Telemedicine Collaborative Care Intervention for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: A Stepped Wedge Evaluation of an Adaptive Implementation Strategy. General hospital psychiatry. 2022 Mar 26; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2022.03.009..
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• Reger MA, Jegley SM, Porter SA, Woods JA, Liu L, Markman JD, Landes SJ. Implementation strategy to increase clinicians' use of the caring letters suicide prevention intervention. Psychological Services. 2022 Mar 14; doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000637.

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• Specialized Primary Care Homes Effective in Treatment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness
  This project studied the implementation and effectiveness of a primary care medical home specifically designed to improve the healthcare of Veterans with serious mental illness. SMI PACTs (Patient Aligned Care Teams) include a specialized, integrated team that can provide both primary and psychiatric care. Findings showed that a primary care medical home for Veterans with SMI can be safe and more ...
  
  Date: April 5, 2022
• Rapid Response to Executive Order by HSR&D Investigators Leads to Widespread Adoption of Suicide Prevention Strategies
  As part of the response to Presidential Executive Order #13861, this study analyzed a large body of text responses collected as a federal Request for Information (RFI) to uncover gaps in policy and practice across the U.S. in order to more effectively address and prevent suicide among Veterans. Findings identified unique barriers to care, in addition to ways in which data and research could be bet...
  
  Date: March 3, 2022
• Intervention May Decrease Workplace Staff Injury Rates Due to Assaults in VA Community Living Centers
  An interdisciplinary, person-centered, behavioral intervention for managing distress behaviors in dementia, called STAR-VA, has been implemented in VA Community Living Centers (CLCs). This study sought to describe the incidence of workplace disruptive behavior incidents and staff injury rates occurring in 120 CLCs (62 of which had completed STAR-VA training) from FY12-FY17 and to assess the associ...
  
  Date: August 30, 2021
• Primary Care Intensive Management for High-Risk VA Patients Did Not Improve Long-term (12-24 Month) Outcomes or Costs
  This randomized trial tested whether primary care intensive management (PIM) teams could decrease acute care use, such as emergency department visits and hospitalizations, among high-risk Veterans during the second year of PIM implementation. Findings showed that offering an intensive case management program in addition to routine primary care services for high-risk patients increased outpatient u...
  
  Date: June 18, 2021
• Healthcare Supplement Features HSR&D Articles on the Importance of Embedded Research
  This supplemental issue of the journal Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation considers the impact of embedded research on solving the disconnect between healthcare organizations and health services researchers. In November 2019, a national meeting was organized by a trio of Federal funders – VA, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Patient-Centered Ou...
  
  Date: June 1, 2021

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• Forum Spring 2019: Specialty Care and the MISSION Act

  ... An HSR&D-funded study of the implementation and impact of these apps will contribute...PCP, who is then responsible for implementing them. VA’s teledermatology program

• Management Briefs eBrief-no157 -- Implementation of High Reliability Organization Principles

  Management Briefs eBrief-no157 -- Implementation of High Reliability Organization...Synthesis Program. Evidence Brief: Implementation of High Reliability Organization...literature on 1) frameworks for the implementation of an HRO, 2) metrics for evaluating

• Forum Winter 2018: Electronic Health Record

  ...challenging, decade-long journey of implementing a new electronic health record,...and our corps of informatics and implementation science research experts will provide... Some lessons from local EHR implemen­tations are also relevant to distant ones...site has a unique instance and implementation of that product. This results in

• FORUM, Spring 2017: Implementation Science

  A Key Strategy in the Field of Implementation Science Mona J. Ritchie, PhD, and...the development, promotion, and implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs)

• FORUM, Spring 2017: Implementation Science

  Research Highlight Enhancing PACT Implementation through Qualitative Research Michelle...Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, and Policy, Los Angeles, California

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