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2 results for topic, "Whole Health"
  • Medical Care Supplement Presents Research and Strategies for Measuring Well-Being of the Whole Person
    To evaluate priorities for measuring well-being in healthcare, VA’s Health Systems Research (HSR) sponsored a State-of-the-Art (SOTA) conference in 2023 on “Measuring What Matters.” This Medical Care supplement reports on research surrounding well-being and Whole Person outcomes and measurement, as well as the SOTA’s discussion and conclusions about how, through measurement, healthcare systems can improve care delivery and patient health by addressing not only disease, but also what matters most to patients.
    Date: December 1, 2024
  • 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 implementation of the Whole Health System of Care, which integrates allopathic and CIH care; and 2) development of the infrastructure for CIH implementation, which includes new standards for hiring CIH providers, the involvement of volunteers who teach CIH, and development of policy and guidance for providing CIH at VAMCs, via telehealth, and/or in the community. Conducting pre-implementation, implementation, and sustainment phases of research on CIH approaches in VA is yet another way to boost the scale-up and spread of these therapies to reach as many Veterans as possible.
    Date: September 1, 2020

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