Health Services Research & Development

• Rogal SS, Yakovchenko V, Waltz TJ, Powell BJ, Gonzalez R, Park A, Chartier M, Ross D, Morgan TR, Kirchner JE, Proctor EK, Chinman MJ. Longitudinal assessment of the association between implementation strategy use and the uptake of hepatitis C treatment: Year 2. Implementation science : IS. 2019 Apr 8; 14(1):36.
• Gilmartin H, Lawrence E, Leonard C, McCreight M, Kelley L, Lippmann B, Coy A, Burke RE. Brainwriting Premortem: A Novel Focus Group Method to Engage Stakeholders and Identify Preimplementation Barriers. Journal of nursing care quality. 2019 Apr 1; 34(2):94-100.
• Gabrielian S, Hamilton AB, Gelberg L, Hellemann G, Koosis ER, Johnson A, Young AS. A protocol to develop and study the effectiveness and implementation of social skills training that improves supported housing retention for persons with serious mental illness. Contemporary clinical trials communications. 2019 Jun 1; 14:100344.
• Grimshaw JM, Ivers N, Linklater S, Foy R, Francis JJ, Gude WT, Hysong SJ, Audit and Feedback MetaLab. Reinvigorating stagnant science: implementation laboratories and a meta-laboratory to efficiently advance the science of audit and feedback. BMJ quality & safety. 2019 May 1; 28(5):416-423.
• Miech EJ, Yakovchenko V. Implementation Strategies for HCV Treatment that Distinguish Higher-Performing VA Facilities: An Applied Use of Configurational Comparative Methods. QUERI Implementation Network [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D QUERI. 2019 Mar 7.

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• Intervention Helps Identify Specialty Mental Health Patients Ready for Transition to Primary Care
  This pilot project tested the implementation of electronic medical record (EMR)-based criteria to identify Veterans currently receiving treatment in the specialty mental health (MH) setting who might be considered for transition to primary care. The intervention, called FLOW (not an acronym), espouses a process of shared decision-making in which MH providers, patients, and, ideally, primary care (...
  
  Date: March 14, 2019
• Positive Effect of Collaborative Chronic Care Model on Mental Health Clinical Teams
  This is one of the first studies to evaluate Collaborative Chronic Care Model (CCM) implementation for individuals treated in mental health clinics, and the first CCM trial to assess implementation impact in a multi-diagnosis mental health population. Findings showed that implementation efforts at the clinician level enhance evidence-based care organization, which may result in improvements in out...
  
  Date: March 1, 2019
• Women’s Health VA Stakeholders Discuss “Ideal” Care
  As part of a multisite implementation trial of evidence-based quality improvement for tailoring PACT to women Veterans’ healthcare needs, investigators conducted semi-structured interviews with 86 local leaders. At the conclusion of interviews about women’s primary care, participants were asked to describe their conceptualizations of “ideal care” for women Veterans. Respondents commonly discussed ...
  
  Date: January 1, 2019
• Pharmacotherapy for Opioid Use Disorder Highly Variable across VA Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
  Pharmacotherapy, including methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone, is both efficacious and cost-effective for treating opioid use disorder (OUD), however it is infrequently prescribed in VA. Investigators in this study sought to describe barriers to and facilitators of pharmacotherapy provided to a national cohort of VA patients with OUD in VA residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment p...
  
  Date: November 1, 2018
• 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

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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...
  
  
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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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• Using Third Party Contractors in the Implementation of the Veterans Choice Program 07/19/2017
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Other Resources

• Visit the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) website to learn more about how VA HSR&D focuses on implementation within certain research areas.
• Visit the website of the open-access journal, Implementation Science, co-edited by HSR&D staff.
• Visit the National Implementation Research Network (part of the NIH) website.
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