• Chinman M, Goldberg R, Daniels K, Muralidharan A, Smith J, McCarthy S, Medoff D, Peeples A, Kuykendall L, Vineyard N, Li L. Implementation of peer specialist services in VA primary care: a cluster randomized trial on the impact of external facilitation. Implementation science : IS. 2021 Jun 7; 16(1):60.
• Mochel AL, Holle CL, Rudolph JL, Ouslander JG, Saliba D, Mor V, Mittman BS. Influencing Factors Associated with Implementation of INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) in VA Community Living Centers (CLCs) Using the Consolidated Framework. Journal of Aging & Social Policy. 2021 Jun 4; 1-17.
• Livorsi DJ, Nair R, Lund BC, Alexander B, Beck BF, Goto M, Ohl M, Vaughan-Sarrazin MS, Goetz MB, Perencevich EN. Antibiotic Stewardship Implementation and Antibiotic Use at Hospitals With and Without On-site Infectious Disease Specialists. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2021 May 18; 72(10):1810-1817.
• Livorsi DJ, Stewart Steffensmeier KR, Perencevich EN, Goetz MB, Schacht Reisinger H. Antibiotic stewardship implementation at hospitals without on-site infectious disease specialists: A qualitative study. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2021 May 17; 1-6.
• Siantz E, Henwood B, Rabin B, Center K, Fenwick K, Gilmer T. A Mixed-method Evaluation of the Behavioral Health Integration and Complex Care Initiative Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. Medical care. 2021 May 13.

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• 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
• Accelerating Implementation of VA Virtual Care
  In December 2019, HSR&D investigators hosted a four-hour Think Tank, Accelerating Implementation of Virtual Care in VHA Practice, to: a) examine current virtual care research and practice; b) consider challenges to virtual care research across VA; c) discuss novel approaches to using and evaluating virtual care; and d) assess perspectives of virtual care from a variety of stakeholders. Think Tank ...
  
  Date: January 26, 2021
• JGIM Supplement Features HSR&D/QUERI Research on the Importance of Implementation Science to Quality Improvement
  Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Kaiser Permanente, and VA, this supplemental issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) on implementation science (IS) and quality improvement (QI) marks the formal addition of IS/QI as an area of emphasis for JGIM. The supplement features innovative research that applied evidence across diverse delivery systems and ...
  
  Date: November 10, 2020

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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

  A Key Strategy in the Field of Implementation Science Mona J. Ritchie, PhD, and...the development, promotion, and implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs)

• FORUM, Spring 2017: Implementation Science

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

• 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

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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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