Health Services Research & Development

• Casey DE, Thomas RJ, Bhalla V, Commodore-Mensah Y, Heidenreich PA, Kolte D, Muntner P, Smith SC, Spertus JA, Windle JR, Wozniak GD, Ziaeian B. 2019 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With High Blood Pressure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2019 Nov 26; 74(21):2661-2706.
• Casey DE, Thomas RJ, Bhalla V, Commodore-Mensah Y, Heidenreich PA, Kolte D, Muntner P, Smith SC, Spertus JA, Windle JR, Wozniak GD, Ziaeian B. 2019 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With High Blood Pressure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2019 Nov 12; 12(11):e000057.
• Thomas CP, Ritter GA, Harris AHS, Garnick DW, Freedman KI, Herbert B. Applying American Society of Addiction Medicine Performance Measures in Commercial Health Insurance and Services Data. Journal of addiction medicine. 2018 Jul 1; 12(4):287-294.
• Thomas RJ, Balady G, Banka G, Beckie TM, Chiu J, Gokak S, Ho PM, Keteyian SJ, King M, Lui K, Pack Q, Sanderson BK, Wang TY. 2018 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2018 Apr 1; 11(4):e000037.
• Govindan S, Wallace B, Iwashyna TJ, Chopra V. Do Experts Understand Performance Measures? A Mixed-Methods Study of Infection Preventionists. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2018 Jan 1; 39(1):71-76.

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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
• 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
• Study Identifies which VA Mental Health Program Characteristics are Associated with Patient Satisfaction
  This study examined the relationships between a set of patient satisfaction measures and a large collection of mental health program characteristics for Veterans with a recent mental health encounter in the VA healthcare system. Findings showed that broad measures of mental healthcare program reach (i.e., proportion of patients served) and intensity (i.e., number of visits) – and nearly all measur...
  
  Date: May 19, 2017
• VA Diabetes and Cardiovascular Care Quality Comparable between Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers
  This study assessed the effectiveness of diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) care provided to Veterans in VA primary care by advanced practice providers (APPs) compared to physicians. Findings showed that the quality of diabetes and CVD care delivered in VA primary care settings was mostly comparable between physicians and APPs. However, a majority of Veterans with diabetes and CVD – irrespe...
  
  Date: November 1, 2016
• Incorporating Health Status into Routine Care
  This article describes the early efforts of VA’s Patient Reported Health Status Assessment (PROST) system to capture, report, and initiate clinical action in response to patient-reported health status measures, thereby improving the value of care delivered to Veterans undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention. Findings suggest that refocusing performance measures on health outcomes th...
  
  Date: August 2, 2016

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• Evidence Brief: Use of Performance Measures as Criteria for Selecting Community Cardiac and Orthopedic Surgical Providers for the Veterans Choice Program
  ...in selecting performance measures for determining community provider eligibility is that there are a large number of measures meant as indirect...
  
  
• Management Briefs eBrief-no130 - Use of Performance Measures as Criteria for Selecting Community Surgical Providers
  ...Management Briefs eBrief-no130 Use of Performance Measures as Criteria for Selecting Community Surgical Providers Management eBrief no. 130...
  
  
• FORUM, November 2007: Performance Measurement
  ...just how harmful performance measures can be when they are poorly constructed. Building a Better VA Performance Measurement System by Steven...
  
  
• FORUM, November 2007: Performance Measurement
  ...will lead to improvement in those areas as well. The Evidence for Performance Measurement The VHA performance measurement system is among the...
  
  
• FORUM, November 2007: Performance Measurement
  ...FORUM, November 2007: Performance Measurement HSR&D Home November 2007 » Back to Table of Contents Announcements Mark your Calendars! HSR&D's...
  
  

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Videos

• Facilitating Better Communication between Veterans and Providers 01/02/18
• Discharge Support for Veterans Receiving Outpatient Care in the Emergency Department 12/18/17
• Person-Centered Care 02/23/16
• Healthcare Reimbursement Strategies 09/25/14
• Large-Scale Adverse Events 09/25/14

Podcasts

• The Role of Cultural Anthropologists in VA Healthcare 07/08/2019
• Integrating the Life-Sustaining Treatment Template into Current Processes in Community Living Centers 12/20/2018
• Participatory Action Dissemination 12/20/2018
• Use and Adaptation of Implementation Facilitation to Improve Engagement and Retention in Care of Vulnerable US Veterans 12/20/2018
• Evidence-based Quality Improvement in Primary Care 06/26/2018
• 20 Years of the HSR&D Quality Enhancement Research Initiative 06/26/2018
• End-of-Life Care Quality in VA 06/25/2018
• Veterans' Experiences with the Veterans Choice Program 06/24/2018
• Veteran Community Engagement Committee 09/27/2017
• Audit and feedback in clinical care coordination 09/27/2017
• VA as a Learning Healthcare System 06/26/2017

Other Resources

• Visit the HSR&D Quality Enhancement Research Initiative's (QUERI) websiteto learn more about their programs, initiatives and national research network. 
• Learn more about the research being conducted at the HSR&DCenter for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety.
• Visit thewebsite of the VA's National Center for Patient Safety.