Health Services Research & Development

• Birken SA, Rohweder CL, Powell BJ, Shea CM, Scott J, Leeman J, Grewe ME, Alexis Kirk M, Damschroder L, Aldridge WA, Haines ER, Straus S, Presseau J. T-CaST: an implementation theory comparison and selection tool. Implementation science : IS. 2018 Nov 22; 13(1):143.
• Chanfreau-Coffinier C, Peredo J, Russell MM, Yano EM, Hamilton AB, Lerner B, Provenzale D, Knight SJ, Voils CI, Scheuner MT. A logic model for precision medicine implementation informed by stakeholder views and implementation science. Genetics in Medicine : Official Journal of The American College of Medical Genetics. 2018 Oct 23.
• Chinman M, Ebener P, Malone PS, Cannon J, D'Amico EJ, Acosta J. Testing implementation support for evidence-based programs in community settings: a replication cluster-randomized trial of Getting To Outcomes®. Implementation science : IS. 2018 Oct 22; 13(1):131.
• Askelson NM, Brady P, Ryan G, Meier C, Ortiz C, Scheidel C, Delger P. Actively Involving Middle School Students in the Implementation of a Pilot of a Behavioral Economics-Based Lunchroom Intervention in Rural Schools. Health Promotion Practice. 2018 Oct 16; 1524839918807717.
• Griebel ME, Heintz B, Alexander B, Egge J, Goto M, Livorsi DJ. Understanding changes in the standardized antimicrobial administration ratio for total antimicrobial use after implementation of prospective audit and feedback. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2018 Oct 10; 1-4.

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• Systematic Review: Pay-for-Performance and VA Healthcare
  Investigators sought to identify studies that examined the effects of pay-for-performance (P4P) on the quality of care and health of Veterans, including potential unintended consequences, as well as program design features and implementation factors important to P4P both within VA and in the community. Findings showed that overall, evidence is insufficient to determine whether P4P results in durab...
  
  Date: July 1, 2018
• Evaluating Care Coordination Program for Pregnant Veterans
  The VA Maternity Care Coordinator Telephone Care Program (MCC-TCP) was created to support MCCs and includes outlines to guide up to eight calls with Veterans on topics such as VA maternity care benefits, chronic health problems, substance use cessation, and depression and suicide screening. Investigators evaluated the program and assessed its feasibility, as well as facilitators and barriers to it...
  
  Date: May 23, 2018
• Online Toolkit to Improve Primary Care Coordination within VA and with Community Providers
  The Coordination Toolkit and Coaching (CTAC) project aims to improve patients’ experience of care coordination, while also developing better methods for bringing research evidence on care coordination into routine care. In this article, investigators describe CTAC’s first phase, which involved selecting tools for an online care coordination toolkit and developing a VA Intranet site to support the ...
  
  Date: May 23, 2018
• Identifying Best Strategies to Implement Patient-Centered Care
  This paper describes a qualitative study of four early Centers of Innovation (VA medical centers considered early leaders in patient-centered care [PCC]) to inform VA leadership about how best to catalyze and sustain change across the system. Investigators identified seven domains that impacted PCC implementation: 1) leadership, 2) patient and family engagement, 3) staff engagement, 4) focus on PC...
  
  Date: March 7, 2018
• Veterans with Heart Disease More Likely to Participate in Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) When Home-Based CR Program is Available
  This study examined whether the implementation of new home-based cardiac rehabilitation (HBCR) programs is associated with improved cardiac rehabilitation (CR) participation among Veterans. Findings showed that Veterans hospitalized with ischemic heart disease were more likely to participate in CR when a home-based program was available. Implementation of HBCR increased participation from 6% to 25...
  
  Date: January 22, 2018

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• FORUM, August 2015: Lean Enterprise Transformation within VHA, Evidence-Based Implementation
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• FORUM, Spring 2017: Implementation Science
  ...implementation science. Enhancing PACT Implementation through Qualitative Research By Michelle Lampman, PhD, Samantha L. Solimeo, PhD, and Greg...
  
  
• ESP Report: Understanding the Intervention and Implementation Factors Associated with Benefits and Harms of Pay for Performance Programs in Healthcare
  ...ESP Report: Understanding the Intervention and Implementation Factors Associated with Benefits and Harms of Pay for Performance Programs in Healthcare...
  
  
• FORUM, August 2015: Lean Enterprise Transformation within VHA, Evidence-Based Implementation
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• FORUM, August 2015: Lean Enterprise Transformation within VHA, Evidence-Based Implementation
  ...Based Implementation HSR&D Home August 2015 » Back to Table of Contents Response to Commentary Evidence-Based Implementation: Towards a Scientific...
  
  

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• Visit the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) website to learn more about how VA HSR&D focuses on implementation within certain research areas.
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