• Suda KJ, Clore GS, Evans CT, Reisinger HS, Kale I, Echevarria K, Sherlock SH, Perencevich EN, Goetz MB, VA-CDC Practice-Based Research Network. Acceptability and effectiveness of antimicrobial stewardship implementation strategies on fluoroquinolone prescribing. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2021 Apr 12; 1-8.
• Burgess D, Taylor SL, Giannitrapani KF, Ackland PE, Thomas ER, Federman DG, Holliday JR, Olson J, Kligler B, Zeliadt SB. The Implementation and Effectiveness of Battlefield Auricular Acupuncture for Pain. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.). 2021 Mar 26.
• Holmes B, Hamilton AB. Three opportunities to boost implementation science at a critical time of need. BMC Blog Network On Health [Internet]. 2021 Mar 26. Available from: https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2021/03/26/three-opportunities-to-boost-implementation-science-at-a-critical-time-of-need/.
• Gertner AK, Franklin J, Roth I, Cruden GH, Haley AD, Finley EP, Hamilton AB, Palinkas LA, Powell BJ. A Scoping Review of the Use of Ethnographic Approaches in Implementation Research and Recommendations for Reporting. Implementation Research and Practice. 2021 Mar 16; https://doi.org/10.1177/2633489521992743.
• Rubenstein LV, Kronish IM, Walker RJ, Leykum LK, Ong MK, Asch SM, , The JGIM Quality Improvement and Implementation Science Workgroup. JGIM Welcomes Quality Improvement and Implementation Science Submissions on Healthcare Delivery Change. Journal of general internal medicine. 2021 Mar 4.

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  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...
  
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• Accelerating Implementation of VA Virtual Care
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• 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 ...
  
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• Use of Community Outpatient Providers During the Choice Program was Associated with Less Attrition from VA Care
  This study examined the characteristics of patients and practices that used Choice outpatient care in the first year of implementation – and whether using Choice outpatient care was associated with attrition from VA primary care over a two-year period. Findings showed that overall, the attrition rate from VA primary care was low (4.4%), and Veterans who used Choice outpatient care were less likely...
  
  Date: September 10, 2020

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