• Etingen B, Smith BM, Zeliadt SB, Kaitz JE, Barker AM, Hyde JK, Fix GM, Reed DE, Anderson E, Hogan TP, Bokhour BG. VHA Whole Health Services and Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies: a Gateway to Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment. Journal of general internal medicine. 2023 Jul 13.
• Tobin J, Zeliadt SB, Upchurch DM, DeFaccio R, Douglas J, Gelman HM, Hawrilenko M, Frochen S, McGinty N, Resnick A, Tomlanovich N, Toyama J, Whitehead AM, Kligler B, Taylor SL. Racial and Ethnic Variation in Complementary and Integrative Health Therapy Use Among US Veterans. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Jun 1; 6(6):e2318020.
• Resnick A, Zeliadt SB, Ganz DA, Moucheraud C, Chuang E, Yano EM, Taylor SL. Changes in Use of Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies at the Veterans Affairs: Findings from a Whole Health System Pilot Program. Journal of integrative and complementary medicine. 2023 Mar 16.
• Taylor SL, Gelman HM, DeFaccio R, Douglas J, Hawrilenko MJ, McGinty NK, Resnick A, Tomlanovich NC, Toyama J, Whitehead AM, Kligler B, Zeliadt SB. We Built it, But Did They Come: Veterans' Use of VA Healthcare System-Provided Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches. Journal of general internal medicine. 2023 Mar 1; 38(4):905-912.
• Zeliadt SB, Douglas JH, Gelman H, Coggeshall S, Taylor SL, Kligler B, Bokhour BG. Effectiveness of a whole health model of care emphasizing complementary and integrative health on reducing opioid use among patients with chronic pain. BMC health services research. 2022 Aug 17; 22(1):1053.

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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

• 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

• FORUM, Spring 2016: Chronic pain, opioids

  ...public health problem invites an understanding of its phenomenology and an examination...Highlight A VA Priority: Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches to Addressing...Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy, VA Los Angeles Healthcare System

• FORUM, Spring 2016: Chronic pain, opioids

  ...public health problem invites an understanding of its phenomenology and an examination...HSR&D Commentary Chronification of Pain and the Science of Pain Management by Rollin...Director for Pain Management, Veterans Health Administration The importance of pain

• 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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