• Madaras-Kelly K, Hostler C, Townsend M, Potter EM, Spivak ES, Hall SK, Goetz MB, Nevers M, Ying J, Haaland B, Rovelsky SA, Pontefract B, Fleming-Dutra K, Hicks LA, Samore MH. Impact of Implementation of the Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Within Veterans Health Administration Emergency Departments and Primary Care Clinics on Antibiotic Prescribing and Patient Outcomes. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2021 Sep 7; 73(5):e1126-e1134.
• Ovretveit J, Mittman BS, Rubenstein LV, Ganz DA. Combining Improvement and Implementation Sciences and Practices for the Post COVID-19 Era. Journal of general internal medicine. 2021 Sep 7.
• Olmos-Ochoa TT, Fenwick KM, Ganz DA, Chawla N, Penney LS, Barnard JM, Miake-Lye IM, Hamilton AB, Finley EP. Reflective writing: a tool to support continuous learning and improved effectiveness in implementation facilitators. Implementation science communications. 2021 Sep 3; 2(1):98.
• Ball SL, Weiner SJ, Schwartz A, Altman L, Binns-Calvey A, Chan C, Falck-Ytter C, Frenchman M, Gee B, Jackson JL, Jordan N, Kass B, Kelly B, Safdar N, Scholcoff C, Sharma G, Subramaniam S, Weaver F, Wopat M. Implementation of a patient-collected audio recording audit & feedback quality improvement program to prevent contextual error: stakeholder perspective. BMC health services research. 2021 Aug 30; 21(1):891.
• Snell-Rood C, Jaramillo ET, Hamilton AB, Raskin SE, Nicosia FM, Willging C. Advancing health equity through a theoretically critical implementation science. Translational behavioral medicine. 2021 Aug 13; 11(8):1617-1625.

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• 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
• Important IT Issues Impede Implementation of VA Mobile Teledermatology Application
  To improve access to teledermatology for Veterans, VA created the web-based VA Telederm application (app), which interfaces with the EHR (electronic health record). This study evaluated the initial implementation process for the VA Telederm app – and assessed organizational readiness for change (ORC). Findings showed that at all sites, technical issues including sub-optimal information technology ...
  
  Date: March 1, 2021

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• Management Briefs eBrief-no157 -- Implementation of High Reliability Organization Principles

  Management Briefs eBrief-no157 -- Implementation of High Reliability Organization...Synthesis Program. Evidence Brief: Implementation of High Reliability Organization...literature on 1) frameworks for the implementation of an HRO, 2) metrics for evaluating

• 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 2017: Implementation Science

  ...everywhere in VA... Commentary Implementation Science: Moving from Theory to...VA Central Office The field of implementation science has grown exponentially

• FORUM, Spring 2017: Implementation Science

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  Commentary Aligning Forces for Implementation Laura Petersen, MD, MPH, HSR&D...Effectiveness and Safety, Houston, Texase Implementing evidence into care for patients

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• Using Third Party Contractors in the Implementation of the Veterans Choice Program 07/19/2017
• Quantifying Facilitation in Implementation Trials 06/27/2017

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• Visit the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative’s website to find out more about implementation science resources, including:
  • Implementation Roadmap
  • Center for Evaluation and Implementation Resources
  • Implementation Strategy Learning Hubs