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Cyberseminar Series Spotlight on Pain Management
Session Title Project STEP: The use of a mixed, qualitative and quantitative approach to studying and promoting implementation of the VHA Stepped Care Model of Pain Management
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has established pain management as a high priority and has identified an evidence- and population-based stepped care model of pain management (SCM-PM) as the single standard of pain care for VHA. The SCM-PM calls for building capacity for primary care based pain management services combined with timely access to secondary consultation and tertiary interdisciplinary pain care services, when indicated. This presentation will report on initial findings from a foundation funded project designed to evaluate and facilitate processes of implementing the SCM-PM at VA Connecticut Healthcare System (VACHS) in order to identify best practice models to aid broader dissemination and implementation in VHA and in other integrated healthcare systems. Results of mixed qualitative and quantitative analyses will be presented for the four years of the study. National VHA and non-VHA, VISN and VACHS implementation initiatives will be described as important contexts in which to consider the results.
Date 10/1/2013
Time 11:00am-12:00pm ET
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Robert Kerns, PhD
Clinical psychologist and Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University. Founding VA National Program Director for Pain Management and founding Director of the HSR&D Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center of Innovation. Director of the Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center. Retiring after 37 years of VA service, he continues to be engaged full time in federally funded pain research, making contributions to science and policy initiatives focusing on optimizing pain care for Veterans.
Presenting: Project STEP: The use of a mixed, qualitative and quantitative approach to studying and promoting implementation of the VHA Stepped Care Model of Pain Management

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