• Hagedorn HJ, Gustavson AM, Ackland PE, Bangerter A, Bounthavong M, Clothier B, Harris AHS, Kenny ME, Noorbaloochi S, Salameh HA, Gordon AJ. Advancing Pharmacological Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder (ADaPT-OUD): an Implementation Trial in Eight Veterans Health Administration Facilities. Journal of general internal medicine. 2022 Jan 3.
• Kobe EA, Lewinski AA, Jeffreys AS, Smith VA, Coffman CJ, Danus SM, Sidoli E, Greck BD, Horne L, Saxon DR, Shook S, Aguirre LE, Esquibel MG, Evenson C, Elizagaray C, Nelson V, Zeek A, Weppner WG, Scodellaro S, Perdew CJ, Jackson GL, Steinhauser K, Bosworth HB, Edelman D, Crowley MJ. Implementation of an Intensive Telehealth Intervention for Rural Patients with Clinic-Refractory Diabetes. Journal of general internal medicine. 2022 Jan 3.
• Yakovchenko V, Morgan TR, Chinman MJ, Powell BJ, Gonzalez R, Park A, Malone PS, Chartier M, Ross D, Rogal SS. Mapping the road to elimination: a 5-year evaluation of implementation strategies associated with hepatitis C treatment in the veterans health administration. BMC health services research. 2021 Dec 18; 21(1):1348.
• Ballengee LA, Zullig LL, George SZ. Implementation of Psychologically Informed Physical Therapy for Low Back Pain: Where Do We Stand, Where Do We Go? Journal of pain research. 2021 Dec 7; 14:3747-3757.
• Livorsi DJ, Drainoni ML, Reisinger HS, Nanda N, McGregor JC, Barlam TF, Morris AM, Szymczak JE. Leveraging implementation science to advance antibiotic stewardship practice and research. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2021 Dec 2; 1-8.

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• 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
• Medical Care Supplement Highlights VA Efforts to Increase Healthcare Options for Veterans through Community Care
  In this Medical Care Supplement, 12 articles highlight research focusing on Veterans’ use of community care and how VA facilities interact with community care providers. The Supplement offers a broad examination of VA’s expanded Community Care program, from the Choice Act through the first two years of MISSION Act implementation, and highlights areas where additional research is needed to understa...
  
  Date: May 13, 2021
• Research Suggests Battlefield Acupuncture is Immediate but Short-Term Pain Management Tool
  This commentary summarizes work conducted to examine battlefield acupuncture’s (BFA’s) implementation and effectiveness within the VA healthcare system. Findings show that there is some evidence that BFA is a potentially effective, immediate, but short-term pain management tool that can be used in adjunct with other pain therapies. BFA produced a minimal clinically important improvement in pain fo...
  
  Date: March 26, 2021

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• 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 2019: Specialty Care and the MISSION Act

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• Using Third Party Contractors in the Implementation of the Veterans Choice Program 07/19/2017
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• Visit the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative’s website to find out more about implementation science resources, including:
  • Implementation Roadmap
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