Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research
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Recent Publications
April 2021
Adjognon OL, Brady JE, Gerber MR, Dichter ME, Grillo AR, Hamilton AB, Stirman SW, Iverson KM. Getting Routine Intimate Partner Violence Screening Right: Implementation Strategies Used in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Primary Care. J Am Board Fam Med. 2021 Mar-Apr;34(2):346-356. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2021.02.200311.
Asundi A, Resnik J, Benedict P, Shin M, Elwy AR, Branch-Elliman W. How are emerging data translated into clinical practice? A mixed-methods investigation of COVID-19 institutional treatment protocols. Open Forum of Infectious Diseases, April 2021; 8(4). doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab072
Branch-Elliman W, Sturgeon D, Karchmer AW, Mull HJ. (2021). Association Between Diabetic Foot Infection Wound Culture Positivity and 1-Year Admission for Invasive Infection: A Multi-Center Cohort Study, Open Forum Infec Dis. 4/1/2021
Byrne TH, Roncarati JS, Miller DP. Predictors of Nursing Home Admission among A Cohort of Homeless Older Adults Entering Emergency Shelter. Medical Care: April 2021; 59(p S212-S219) doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001500.
Holliday R, Liu S, Brenner LA, Monteith LL, Cappelletti MM, Blosnich JR, Brostow DP, Gelberg L, Hooshyar D, Koget J, McInnes DK, Montgomery AE, O'Brien R, Rosenheck RA, Strickland S, Workman GM, Tsai J. Preventing Suicide Among Homeless Veterans: A Consensus Statement by the Veterans Affairs Suicide Prevention Among Veterans Experiencing Homelessness Workgroup. Med Care. 2021 Apr 1;59(Suppl 2):S103-S105. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001399.
Jasuja GK, Bettano A, Smelson D, Bernson D, Rose AJ, Byrne T, Berlowitz DR, McCullough MB, Miller DR. Homelessness and Veteran Status in Relation to Nonfatal and Fatal Opioid Overdose in Massachusetts. Med Care. 2021 Apr 1;59(Suppl 2):S165-S169. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001437.
Miller CJ, Barnett ML, Baumann AA, Gutner CA, Wiltsey-Stirman S. The FRAME-IS: a framework for documenting modifications to implementation strategies in healthcare. Implement Sci. 2021 Apr 7;16(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s13012-021-01105-3.
Roncarati JS, Tiemeier H, Tachick R, VanderWeele TJ, O'Connell JJ. Housing Boston's Chronically Homeless Unsheltered Adults: 14 years later. Medical Care: April 2021; 59(p S170-S174) doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001409
Zogas A, Gillespie C, Kleinberg F, Reisman JI, Ndiwane N, Tran MH, Ourth HL, Morreale AP, Miller DR, McCullough MB. Clinical Pharmacist Integration Into Veterans' Primary Care: Team Members Perspectives. J Am Board Fam Med. 2021 Mar-Apr;34(2):320-327. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2021.02.200328.
March 2021
Abadi MH, Barker AM, Rao SR, Orner M, Rychener D, Bokhour BG. Examining the Impact of a Peer-Led Group Program for Veteran Engagement and Well-Being. J Altern Complement Med. 2021 Mar;27(S1):S37-S44. doi: 10.1089/acm.2020.0124.Bauer MS, Stolzmann K, Miller CJ, Kim B, Connolly SL, Lew R. Implementing the Collaborative Chronic Care Model in Mental Health Clinics: Achieving and Sustaining Clinical Effects. Psychiatr Serv. 2021 Mar 18:appips202000117. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000117. Epub ahead of print.
Caniff KE, Young LR, Truong S, Gibson G, Jurasic MM, Poggensee L, Fitzpatrick MA, Evans CT, Suda KJ. Postextraction infection and antibiotic prescribing among veterans receiving dental extractions. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Mar 2:1-6. doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.15. Epub ahead of print.
Carlsen DB, Durkin MJ, Gibson G, Jurasic MM, Patel U, Poggensee L, Fitzpatrick MA, Echevarria K, McGregor J, Evans CT, Suda KJ. Concordance of antibiotic prescribing with the American Dental Association acute oral infection guidelines within Veterans' Affairs (VA) dentistry. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Mar 2:1-9. doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.16. Epub ahead of print.
Fix GM, Linsky AM. Leveraging patient-centered approaches to discuss firearm storage safety. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Mar 31. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06716-6. Epub ahead of print.
Gurwitz JH, Kapoor A, Garber L, Mazor KM, Wagner J, Cutrona SL, Singh S, Kanaan AO, Donovan JL, Crawford S, Anzuoni K, Konola TJ, Zhou Y, Field TS. Effect of a Multifaceted Clinical Pharmacist Intervention on Medication Safety After Hospitalization in Persons Prescribed High-risk Medications: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Mar 1. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.9285. Epub ahead of print.
Hoemann K, Khan Z, Kamona N, Dy J, Barrett LF, Quigley KS. Investigating the relationship between emotional granularity and cardiorespiratory physiological activity in daily life. Psychophysiology. 2021 Mar 25:e13818. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13818. Epub ahead of print.
Hwang U, Dresden SM, Vargas-Torres C, Kang R, Garrido MM, Loo G, Sze J, Cruz D, Richardson LD, Adams J, Aldeen A, Baumlin KM, Courtney DM, Gravenor S, Grudzen CR, Nimo G, Zhu CW; Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations in Care Through Workforce, Informatics, and Structural Enhancement (GEDI WISE) Investigators. Association of a Geriatric Emergency Department Innovation Program With Cost Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e2037334. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.37334.
Ito Fukunaga M, Wiener RS, Slatore CG. The 2021 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation on Lung Cancer Screening: The More Things Stay the Same.... JAMA Oncol. 2021 Mar 9. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.8376. Epub ahead of print.
Li M, Wang Y, Ndiwane N, Orner MB, Palacios N, Mittler B, Berlowitz D, Kazis LE, Xia W. The association of COVID-19 occurrence and severity with the use of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin-II receptor blockers in patients with hypertension. PLoS One. 2021 Mar 18;16(3):e0248652. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248652.
Lin MY, Hanchate AD, Frakt AB, Burgess JF Jr, Carey K. Do accountable care organizations differ according to physician-hospital integration?: A retrospective observational study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Mar 26;100(12):e25231. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000025231.
Mackie TI, Schaefer AJ, Hyde JK, Leslie LK, Bosk EA, Fishman B, Sheldrick RC. The decision sampling framework: a methodological approach to investigate evidence use in policy and programmatic innovation. Implement Sci. 2021 Mar 11;16(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s13012-021-01084-5.
Mattocks KM, Elwy AR, Yano EM, Giovannelli J, Adelberg M, Mengeling MA, Cunningham KJ, Matthews KL. Developing network adequacy standards for VA Community Care. Health Serv Res. 2021 Mar 29. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13651. Epub ahead of print.
Peracca SB, Fonseca A, Hines A, King HA, Grenga AM, Jackson GL, Whited JD, Chapman JG, Lamkin R, Mohr DC, Gifford A, Weinstock MA, Oh DH. Implementation of Mobile Teledermatology: Challenges and Opportunities. Telemed J E Health. 2021 Mar 1. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2020.0500. Epub ahead of print.
Ruderman MA, Kim B, Stolzmann K, Connolly S, Miller CJ, Bauer MS. Time course and heterogeneity of treatment effect of the collaborative chronic care model on psychiatric hospitalization rates: A survival analysis using routinely collected electronic medical records. PLoS One. 2021 Mar 25;16(3):e0249007. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249007.
Sullivan JL, Kim B, Miller CJ, Elwy AR, Drummond KL, Connolly SL, Riendeau RP, Bauer MS. Collaborative chronic care model implementation within outpatient behavioral health care teams: qualitative results from a multisite trial using implementation facilitation. Implement Sci Commun. 2021 Mar 24;2(1):33. doi: 10.1186/s43058-021-00133-w.
Taylor SL, Dusek JA, Elwy AR. Moving Integrative Health Research from Effectiveness to Widespread Dissemination. J Altern Complement Med. 2021 Mar;27(S1):S1-S6. doi: 10.1089/acm.2021.0080
van den Berg P, Schechter-Perkins EM, Jack RS, Epshtein I, Nelson R, Oster E, Branch-Elliman W. Effectiveness of three versus six feet of physical distancing for controlling spread of COVID-19 among primary and secondary students and staff: A retrospective, state-wide cohort study. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Mar 10:ciab230. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab230. Epub ahead of print.
Wiener RS, Kim SYI, Fried TR, Cohen J, Foglia MB, Lehmann LS, Linsky AM. Early Changes in Rates of Documented Goals-of-Care Conversations in the Veterans Health Administration During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Mar 9:1–4. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06652-5. Epub ahead of print.
Yoon SS, Wong DH, Reisman JI, Wormwood JB, Vimalananda VG. Impact of electronic consultation (e-consult) on timeliness and guideline concordance of workups leading to thyroid nodule fine-needle aspiration biopsy. Endocr Pract. 2021 Mar 22:S1530-891X(21)00103-8. doi: 10.1016/j.eprac.2021.03.008. Epub ahead of print.
February 2021
Anderson, E., Mohr, D., Regenbogen, I., Swamy, L., Smith, E.G., Mourra, S., Rinne, S.T. Influence of organizational climate and clinician morale on seclusion and physical restraint use in inpatient psychiatric units. Journal of Patient Safety. February 9, 2021. Online Ahead of Print.Anderson, E., Solch, A. K., Fincke, B. G., Meterko, M., Wormwood, J. B., Vimalananda, V. G. Concerns of Primary Care Clinicians Practicing in an Integrated Health System: A Qualitative Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2020 Nov;35(11):3218-3226.
Boyer TL, Youk AO, Haas AP, Brown GR, Shipherd JC, Kauth MR, Jasuja GK, Blosnich JR. Suicide, Homicide, and All-Cause Mortality Among Transgender and Cisgender Patients in the Veterans Health Administration. LGBT Health. 2021 Feb 5. doi: 10.1089/lgbt.2020.0235. Epub ahead of print.
Charns MP. Limitations to National Policy and Financial Incentives: The Role of Organizational Dynamics. Med Care. 2021 Feb 3. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001516. Epub ahead of print.
Fix GM, Dryden EM, Boudreau J, Kressin NR, Gifford AL, Bokhour BG. The temporal nature of social context: Insights from the daily lives of patients with HIV. PLoS One. 2021 Feb 11;16(2):e0246534. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246534.
Gibson CJ, Li Y, Jasuja GK, Self KJ, Seal KH, Byers AL. Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Suicide in a National Sample of Midlife and Older Women Veterans. Med Care. 2021 Feb 1;59:S70-S76. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001433.
Hughto JMW, Quinn EK, Dunbar MS, Rose AJ, Shireman TI, Jasuja GK. Prevalence and Co-occurrence of Alcohol, Nicotine, and Other Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses Among US Transgender and Cisgender Adults. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Feb 1;4(2):e2036512. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.36512.
Kemp K, Pederson CA, Webb M, Williamson S, Elwy AR, Spirito A. Feasibility and acceptability of a brief suicide intervention for youth involved with the family court. Behav Sci Law. 2021 Feb 10. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2498. Epub ahead of print.
Nelson RE, Byrne TH, Suo Y, Cook J, Pettey W, Gundlapalli AV, Greene T, Gelberg L, Kertesz SG, Tsai J, Montgomery AE. Association of Temporary Financial Assistance With Housing Stability Among US Veterans in the Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Feb 1;4(2):e2037047. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.37047.
Ney JP, Gururangan K, Parvizi J. Modeling the Economic Value of Ceribell Rapid Response EEG in the Inpatient Hospital Setting. J Med Econ. 2021 Feb 9:1. doi: 10.1080/13696998.2021.1887877. Epub ahead of print.
Ney JP, Robinson SA, Richardson CR, & Moy ML (2021). Can Technology-based Physical Activity Programs for COPD be Cost-effective? Telemedicine and e-Health.
Pimentel CB, Snow AL, Carnes SL, Shah NR, Loup JR, Vallejo-Luces TM, Madrigal C, Hartmann CW. Huddles and their effectiveness at the frontlines of clinical care: a scoping review. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Feb 8. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06632-9. Epub ahead of print.
Radtke HB, Klein-Tasman BP, Merker VL, Knight P, Ullrich NJ, Jordan JT, Korf B, Plotkin SR. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on neurofibromatosis clinical care and research. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2021 Feb 1;16(1):61. doi: 10.1186/s13023-021-01711-w.
Ramos RD, O'Brien WJ, Gupta K, Itani KM. Incidence and Risk Factors for Long-Term Mesh Explantation Due to Infection in over 100,000 Hernia Surgery Patients. J Am Coll Surg. 2021 Feb 15:S1072-7515(21)00106-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.12.064. Epub ahead of print.
Rinne ST, Shah T, Anderson E, Delgado S, Good V, Sederstrom N, Sessler CN, Sherry SP, Simpson SQ, Collishaw K, Moss M. Professional Societies' Role in Addressing Member Burnout and Promoting Well-being. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2021 Feb 25. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202012-1506OC. Epub ahead of print.
Rose AJ, Dunbar MS, Hughto JMW, Jasuja GK. Conceptual approach to developing quality measures for transgender patients. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Feb 16;21(1):152. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06161-5
Suzuki H, Clore GS, Perencevich EN, Hockett-Sherlock SM, Goto M, Nair R, Branch-Elliman W, Richardson KK, Gupta K, Beck BF, Alexander B, Balkenende EC, Schweizer ML. Development of a fully automated surgical site infection detection algorithm for use in cardiac and orthopedic surgery research. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Feb 23:1-6. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.1387. Epub ahead of print.
Wachterman MW, Sommers BD. Dying Poor in the US-Disparities in End-of-Life Care. JAMA. 2021 Feb 2;325(5):423-424. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.26162.
January 2021
Blok AC, Amante DJ, Hogan TP, Sadasivam RS, Shimada SL, Woods S, Nazi KM, Houston TK. Impact of Patient Access to Online VA Notes on Healthcare Utilization and Clinician Documentation: a Retrospective Cohort Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Jan 14. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06304-0. Epub ahead of print.Dichter ME, Ogden SN, Tuepker A, Iverson KM, True G. Survivors' Input on Health Care-Connected Services for Intimate Partner Violence. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2021 Jan 8. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2020.8585.
Dong OM, Bates J, Chanfreau-Coffinier C, Naglich M, Kelley MJ, Meyer LJ, Icardi M, Vassy JL, Sriram P, Heise CW, Rivas S, Ribeiro M, Jacobitz R, Rozelle S, Chapman JG, Voora D. Veterans Affairs Pharmacogenomic Testing for Veterans (PHASER) clinical program. Pharmacogenomics. 2021 Jan 6. doi: 10.2217/pgs-2020-0173. Epub ahead of print.
Faro JM, Mattocks KM, Nagawa CS, Lemon SC, Wang B, Cutrona SL, Sadasivam RS. Physical Activity, Mental Health and Technology Preferences for Support during COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Report of Cancer Survivors. JMIR Cancer. 2021 Jan 16. doi: 10.2196/25317. Epub ahead of print.
Heapy AA, Tankha H, Higgins DM, Driscoll M, LaChappelle KM, Goulet JL, Buta E, Piette JD, Kerns RD, Krein SL. Incorporating walking into cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain: safety and effectiveness of a personalized walking intervention. J Behav Med. 2021 Apr;44(2):260-269. doi: 10.1007/s10865-020-00193-8. Epub 2021 Jan 1.
McClendon J, Kressin N, Perkins D, Copeland LA, Finley EP, Vogt D. The Impact of Discriminatory Stress on Changes in Posttraumatic Stress Severity at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender. J Trauma Dissociation. 2021 Jan 18:1-18. doi: 10.1080/15299732.2020.1869079. Epub ahead of print.
McKearney P & Zogas A. Mentally Fit: Negotiating the Boundaries of Cognitive Disability. Med Anthropol. 2021 Jan 15:1-5. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2020.1858296. Epub ahead of print.
Quach ED, Franzosa E, Moo LR, Hartmann CW. Clinician Experiences Delivering Dementia Caregiver Support Services During COVID-19. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2021 Jan 9:S1064-7481(21)00003-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2021.01.002. Epub ahead of print.
Quigley KS, Kanoski S, Grill WM, Barrett LF, Tsakiris M. Functions of Interoception: From Energy Regulation to Experience of the Self. Trends Neurosci. 2021 Jan;44(1):29-38. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2020.09.008.
Spalluto LB, Lewis JA, Stolldorf D, Yeh VM, Callaway-Lane C, Wiener RS, Slatore CG, Yankelevitz DF, Henschke CI, Vogus TJ, Massion PP, Moghanaki D, Roumie CL. Organizational Readiness for Lung Cancer Screening: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. J Am Coll Radiol. 2021 Jan 6:S1546-1440(20)31359-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2020.12.010. Epub ahead of print.
Winer M, Dunlap S, St Pierre C, McInnes DK, Schutt R. Housing and Social Connection: Older Formerly Homeless Veterans Living in Subsidized Housing and Receiving Supportive Services. Clin Gerontol. 2021 Jan 27:1-10. doi: 10.1080/07317115.2021.1879336. Epub ahead of print.
Yee J, Marchany K, Greenan MA, Walker WC, Pogoda TK. Potential Concussive Event Narratives of Post-9/11 Combat Veterans: Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium Study. Mil Med. 2021 Jan 25;186(Suppl 1):559-566. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usaa308.
Zhao MJY, Prentice JC, Mohr DC, Conlin PR. Association between hemoglobin A1c variability and hypoglycemia-related hospitalizations in veterans with diabetes mellitus. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2021 Jan;9(1):e001797.
December 2020
Aspinall SL, Sylvain NP, Zhao X, Zhang R, Dong D, Echevarria K, Glassman PA, Goetz MB, Miller DR, Cunningham FE. Serious cardiovascular adverse events with fluoroquinolones versus other antibiotics: A self-controlled case series analysis. Pharmacol Res Perspect. 2020 Dec;8(6):e00664.
Enggasser JL, Livingston NA, Ameral V, Brief DJ, Rubin A, Helmuth E, Roy M, Solhan M, Litwack S, Rosenbloom D, Keane TM. Public implementation of a web-based program for veterans with risky alcohol use and PTSD: A RE-AIM evaluation of VetChange. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2021 Mar;122:108242. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108242. Epub 2020 Dec 11.
Garrido MM, Lum J, Pizer SD. Vector-based kernel weighting: A simple estimator for improving precision and bias of average treatment effects in multiple treatment settings. Stat Med. 2020 Dec 16. doi: 10.1002/sim.8836. Epub ahead of print.
Gillmeyer KR, Nunez ER, Rinne ST, Qian SX, Klings ES, Wiener RS. Development and validation of algorithms to identify pulmonary arterial hypertension in administrative data. Chest. 2020 Dec 17:S0012-3692(20)35455-6. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.12.010. Epub ahead of print.
Leishman NJ, Wiener RS, Fagerlin A, Hayward RA, Lowery J, Caverly TJ. Variation in Eligible Patients' Agreeing to and Receiving Lung Cancer Screening: A Cohort Study. Am J Prev Med. 2020 Dec 17:S0749-3797(20)30502-X. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2020.10.014. Epub ahead of print.
Mayo-Smith M, Radwin LE, Abdulkerim H, Mohr DC. Factors Associated With Patient Ratings of Timeliness of Primary Care Appointments. J Patient Exp. 2020 Dec;7(6):1203-1210. doi: 10.1177/2374373520968979. Epub 2020 Oct 27. PMID: 33457566.
O'Brien WJ, Dipp Ramos R, Gupta K, Itani KMF. Neural Network Model to Detect Long-Term Skin and Soft Tissue Infection after Hernia Repair. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2020 Dec 1. doi: 10.1089/sur.2020.354. Epub ahead of print.
Pugatch M, Chang G, Garnick D, Brolin M, Brief D, Miller C, Fleming J, Blaney D, Harward B, Hodgkin D. Rates and predictors of brief intervention for women veterans returning from recent wars: Examining gaps in service delivery for unhealthy alcohol use. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2021 Apr;123:108257. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108257. Epub 2020 Dec 24.
Trivedi AN, Jiang L, Silva G, Wu WC, Mor V, Fine MJ, Kressin NR, Gutman R. Evaluation of Changes in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers' Mortality Rates After Risk Adjustment for Socioeconomic Status. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Dec 1;3(12):e2024345. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.24345.
Vassy JL, Gaziano JM, Green RC, Ferguson RE, Advani S, Miller SJ, Chun S, Hage AK, Seo SJ, Majahalme N, MacMullen L, Zimolzak AJ, Brunette CA. Effect of Pharmacogenetic Testing for Statin Myopathy Risk vs Usual Care on Blood Cholesterol: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Dec 1;3(12):e2027092. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27092.
Zeliadt SB, Coggeshall S, Gelman H, Shin MH, Elwy AR, Bokhour BG, Taylor SL. Assessing the Relative Effectiveness of Combining Self-Care with Practitioner-Delivered Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies to Improve Pain in a Pragmatic Trial. Pain Med. 2020 Dec 12;21(Supplement_2):S100-S109. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa349.
November 2020
Armstrong MJ, Sullivan JL, Amodeo K, Lunde A, Tsuang DW, Reger MA, Conwell Y, Ritter A, Bang J, Onyike CU, Mari Z, Corsentino Lpc P, Taylor A. Suicide and Lewy Body Dementia: Report of a Lewy Body Dementia Association Working Group. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2020 Nov 9. doi: 10.1002/gps.5462. Epub ahead of print.
Feyman Y, Pizer SD, Frakt AB. The persistence of medicare advantage spillovers in the post-Affordable Care Act era. Health Econ. 2020 Nov 21. doi: 10.1002/hec.4199. Epub ahead of print.
Gould MK, Altman DE, Creekmur B, Qi L, de Bie E, Golden S, Kaplan CP, Kelly K, Miglioretti DL, Mularski RA, Musigdilok VV, Smith-Bindman R, Steltz JP, Wiener RS, Aberle DR, Dyer DS, Vachani A. Guidelines for the Evaluation of Pulmonary Nodules Detected Incidentally or by Screening: A Survey of Radiologist Awareness, Agreement, and Adherence From the Watch the Spot Trial. J Am Coll Radiol. 2020 Nov 16:S1546-1440(20)31119-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2020.10.003. Epub ahead of print.
Hoemann K, Hartley L, Watanabe A, Solana Leon E, Katsumi Y, Barrett LF, Quigley KS. The N400 indexes acquisition of novel emotion concepts via conceptual combination. Psychophysiology. 2020 Nov 25:e13727. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13727. Epub ahead of print.
Jackson GL, Cutrona SL, White BS, Reardon CM, Orvek E, Nevedal AL, Lindquist J, Gifford AL, White L, King HA, DeLaughter K, Houston TK, Henderson B, Vega R, Kilbourne AM, Damschroder LJ. Merging Implementation Practice and Science to Scale Up Promising Practices: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Diffusion of Excellence (DoE) Program. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2020 Nov 28:S1553-7250(20)30314-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jcjq.2020.11.014. Epub ahead of print.
Kanwal F, Taylor TJ, Kramer JR, Cao Y, Smith D, Gifford AL, El-Serag HB, Naik AD, Asch SM. Development, Validation, and Evaluation of a Simple Machine Learning Model to Predict Cirrhosis Mortality. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Nov 2;3(11):e2023780. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23780.
Kertesz SG, McCullough MB, Darnall BD, Varley AL. Promoting Patient-Centeredness in Opioid Deprescribing: a Blueprint for De-implementation Science. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Nov 3. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06254-7. Epub ahead of print.
Klein AB, Dutra SJ, Bovin MJ, Keane TM, Marx BP. The Role of Negative Affect in Differentiating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, and Their Comorbidity Among United States Veterans. J Trauma Stress. 2020 Nov 10. doi: 10.1002/jts.22612. Epub ahead of print.
Minegishi T, Garrido MM, Stein M, Oliva EM, Frakt AB. Opioid Discontinuation Among Patients Receiving High-Dose Long-Term Opioid Therapy in the Veterans Health Administration. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Nov 3. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06252-9. Epub ahead of print.
Moye J, Stolzmann K, Auguste EJ, Cohen AB, Catlin C, Sager ZS, Weiskittle RE, Woolverton CB, Connors HL, Sullivan JL. End of Life Care for Persons under Guardianship. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Nov 16:S0885-3924(20)30872-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.11.008. Epub ahead of print.
Portnoy GA, Iverson KM, Haskell SG, Czarnogorski M, Gerber MR. A Multisite Quality Improvement Initiative to Enhance the Adoption of Screening Practices for Intimate Partner Violence Into Routine Primary Care for Women Veterans. Public Health Rep. 2020 Nov 18:33354920966022. doi: 10.1177/0033354920966022. Epub ahead of print.
Shafer P, Frakt AB. To Truly Build the Affordable Care Act Into Universal Coverage, More Creativity Is Needed. JAMA. 2020 Nov 17;324(19):1931-1932. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.21609.
Shimada SL, Zocchi MS, Hogan TP, Kertesz SG, Rotondi AJ, Butler JM, Knight SJ, DeLaughter K, Kleinberg F, Nicklas J, Nazi KM, Houston TK. Impact of Patient-Clinical Team Secure Messaging on Communication Patterns and Patient Experience: Randomized Encouragement Design Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Nov 18;22(11):e22307. doi: 10.2196/22307.
Stefan MS, Spitzer KA, Zulfiqar S, Heineman BD, Hogan TP, Westafer LM, Pulia MS, Pinto-Plata VM, Lindenauer PK. Uncertainty as a critical determinant of antibiotic prescribing in patients with an asthma exacerbation: a qualitative study. J Asthma. 2020 Nov 6:1-16. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2020.1847929. Epub ahead of print.
October 2020
Branch-Elliman W, Elwy AR, Monach PM. Bringing New Meaning to the Term 'Adaptive Trial:' Challenges of Conducting Clinical Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Implementation Science. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020.Fernandez WG, Benzer JK, Charns MP, Burgess JF. Applying a Model of Teamwork Processes to Emergency Medical Services. West J Emerg Med. 2020 Oct 19;21(6):264-271. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2020.7.47238.
Hatch MN, Martinez RN, Etingen B, Cotner B, Hogan TP, Wickremasinghe IM, Sippel J, Smith BM. Characterization of Telehealth Use in Veterans with Spinal Cord Injuries and Disorders. PM R. 2020 Oct 24. doi: 10.1002/pmrj.12515. Epub ahead of print.
Higgins DM, Heapy AA, Buta E, LaChappelle KM, Serowik KL, Czlapinski R, Kerns RD. A randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy compared with diabetes education for diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain. J Health Psychol. 2020 Oct 19:1359105320962262. doi: 10.1177/1359105320962262. Epub ahead of print.
Hull LE, Vassy JL, Stone A, Chanfreau-Coffinier CC, Heise CW, Pratt VM, Przygodzki R, Voils CI, Voora D, Wang-Rodriguez J, Schichman SA, Scheuner MT. Identifying End Users' Preferences about Structuring Pharmacogenetic Test Orders in an Electronic Health Record System. J Mol Diagn. 2020 Oct;22(10):1264-1271. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2020.06.015.
Jasuja, GK, de Groot, A, Quinn, EK, Ameli, O, Hughto, J, Dunbar, M, Deutsch, M, Streed, CG, Jr, Paasche-Orlow, MK, Wolfe, HL, & Rose, AJ. (2020). Beyond Gender Identity Disorder Diagnoses Codes: An Examination of Additional Methods to Identify Transgender Individuals in Administrative Databases. Medical care, 58(10), 903-911. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001362
Linsky AM, Stolzmann K, Meterko M. The Patient Perceptions of Deprescribing (PPoD) Survey: Short-Form Development. Drugs Aging. 2020 Oct 7. doi: 10.1007/s40266-020-00802-w. Epub ahead of print.
Martinez RN, Smith BM, French DD, Hogan TP, Gonzalez B, Osteen CM, Hatch M, Anderson V, Tarlov E, Silva A, Goldstein B, Stroupe KT. Effect of the Affordable Care Act on healthcare utilization for Veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders. J Spinal Cord Med. 2020 Oct 21:1-10. doi: 10.1080/10790268.2020.1829419. Epub ahead of print.
Minegishi T, Young GJ, Madison KM, Pizer SD. Regional market factors and patient experience in primary care. Am J Manag Care. 2020 Oct;26(10):438-443. doi: 10.37765/ajmc.2020.88502.
Miller CJ, Shin M, Pugatch M, Kim B. Veteran Perspectives on Care Coordination Between Veterans Affairs and Community Providers: A Qualitative Analysis. J Rural Health. 2020 Oct 21. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12526. Epub ahead of print.
Mull HJ, Shin MH, Engle RL, Linsky AM, Kalver E, Lamkin R, Sullivan JL. Veterans Perceptions of Satisfaction and Convenience with Anticoagulants for Atrial Fibrillation: Warfarin versus Direct Oral Anticoagulants. Patient Prefer Adherence. 2020 Oct 13;14:1911-1922. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S279621.
Munshi MN, Meneilly GS, Rodríguez-Mañas L, Close KL, Conlin PR, Cukierman-Yaffe T, Forbes A, Ganda OP, Kahn CR, Huang E, Laffel LM, Lee CG, Lee S, Nathan DM, Pandya N, Pratley R, Gabbay R, Sinclair AJ. Diabetes in ageing: pathways for developing the evidence base for clinical guidance. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2020 Oct;8(10):855-867. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30230-8.
Nikpay S, Pungarcher I, Frakt A. An Economic Perspective on the Affordable Care Act: Expectations and Reality. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2020 Oct 1;45(5):889-904. doi: 10.1215/03616878-8543340.
Pyne JM, Kelly PA, Fischer EP, Miller CJ, Connolly S, Wright P, Zamora K, Koenig CJ, Stanley R, Seal K, Fortney JC. Initial Concurrent and Convergent Validity of the Perceived Access Inventory (PAI) for Mental Health Services. Psychol Serv. 2020 Oct 8. doi: 10.1037/ser0000504. Epub ahead of print.
Rivera MP, Katki HA, Tanner NT, Triplette M, Sakoda LC, Wiener RS, Cardarelli R, Carter-Harris L, Crothers K, Fathi JT, Ford ME, Smith R, Winn RA, Wisnivesky JP, Henderson LM, Aldrich MC. Addressing Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility and Healthcare Access. An Official American Thoracic Society Statement. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 Oct 1;202(7):e95-e112. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202008-3053ST.
Rogal SS, Yakovchenko V, Morgan T, Bajaj JS, Gonzalez R, Park A, Beste L, Miech EJ, Lamorte C, Neely B, Gibson S, Malone PS, Chartier M, Taddei T, Garcia-Tsao G, Powell BJ, Dominitz JA, Ross D, Chinman MJ. Getting to implementation: a protocol for a Hybrid III stepped wedge cluster randomized evaluation of using data-driven implementation strategies to improve cirrhosis care for Veterans. Implement Sci. 2020 Oct 21;15(1):92. doi: 10.1186/s13012-020-01050-7.
Smetana GW, Vassy JL, Hofstatter E, Libman H. Should You Recommend Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing for This Patient? : Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Oct 6;173(7):563-571. doi: 10.7326/M20-5419.
Smith SN, Liebrecht CM, Bauer MS, Kilbourne AM. Comparative effectiveness of external vs blended facilitation on collaborative care model implementation in slow-implementer community practices. Health Serv Res. 2020 Oct 30. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13583. Epub ahead of print
Solar C, Halat AM, MacLean RR, Rajeevan H, Williams DA, Krein SL, Heapy AA, Bair MJ, Kerns RD, Higgins DM. Predictors of engagement in an internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy program for veterans with chronic low back pain. Transl Behav Med. 2020 Oct 24:ibaa098. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibaa098. Epub ahead of print.
Spece LJ, Epler EM, Duan K, Donovan LM, Griffith MF, LaBedz S, Thakur N, Wiener RS, Krishnan JA, Au DH, Feemster LC. Reassessment of Home Oxygen Prescription after Hospitalization for COPD: A Potential Target for De-implementation. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 Oct 19. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202004-364OC. Epub ahead of print.
Woodrell CD, Goldstein NE, Moreno JR, Schiano TD, Schwartz ME, Garrido MM. Inpatient Specialty-Level Palliative Care is Delivered Late in the Course of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Associated with Lower Hazard of Hospital Readmission. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Oct 6:S0885-3924(20)30790-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.09.040. Epub ahead of print.
September 2020
Byrne T, Cashy J, Metraux S, Blosnich JR, Cusack M, Culhane DP, McInnes DK, Culhane E, Montgomery AE. Association Between Registered Sex Offender Status and Risk of Housing Instability and Homelessness among Veterans. J Interpers Violence. 2020 Sep 22:886260520959646.
Connolly, SL, Hogan, TP, Shimada, SL, & Miller, CJ (2020). Leveraging Implementation Science to Understand Factors Influencing Sustained Use of Mental Health Apps: a Narrative Review. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, 1-13.
Connolly SL, Stolzmann KL, Heyworth L, Weaver KR, Bauer MS, Miller CJ. Rapid Increase in Telemental Health Within the Department of Veterans Affairs During the COVID-19 Pandemic [published online ahead of print, 2020 Sep 14]. Telemed J E Health. 2020;10.1089/tmj.2020.0233.
Elwy AR. Finding His Voice. JAMA. 2020 Sep 15;324(11):1039-1040.
Etingen B, Amante DJ, Martinez RN, Smith BM, Shimada SL, Richardson L, Patterson A, Houston TK, Frisbee KL, Hogan TP. Supporting the Implementation of Connected Care Technologies in the Veterans Health Administration: Cross-Sectional Survey Findings from the Veterans Engagement with Technology Collaborative (VET-C) Cohort. J Particip Med. 2020 Sep 30;12(3):e21214. doi: 10.2196/21214.
Figueroa JF, Wadhera RK, Frakt AB, Fonarow GC, Heidenreich PA, Xu H, Lytle B, DeVore AD, Matsouaka R, Yancy CW, Bhatt DL, & Joynt Maddox KE. (2020). Quality of Care and Outcomes Among Medicare Advantage vs Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure. JAMA cardiology, 10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3638. Advance online publication.
Katz DA, Wu C, Jaske E, Stewart GL, Mohr DC. Care Practices to Promote Patient Engagement in VA Primary Care: Factors Associated With High Performance. Ann Fam Med. 2020;18(5):397-405.
Mahoney, CT, Shayani, DR, & Iverson, KM (2020). Differential indirect effects of military sexual trauma on posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters via past-year intimate partner violence experiences. Traumatology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000242
Merker VL, Plotkin SR, Charns MP, Meterko M, Jordan JT, Elwy AR. Effective provider-patient communication of a rare disease diagnosis: A qualitative study of people diagnosed with schwannomatosis. Patient Educ Couns. 2020 Sep 28;S0738-3991(20)30527-9. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2020.09.029. Online ahead of print.
Mull HJ, Stolzmann K, Shin M, Schweizer-Looby M, Branch-Elliman W. (2020). Novel Methodology to Flag Cardiac Implantable Device Infections by Integrating Text Mining with Structured Data in the Veterans Health Administration's Electronic Medical Record, JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Sep 1;3(9):e2012264.
Nevedal AL, Reardon CM, Jackson GL, Cutrona SL, White B, Gifford AL, Orvek E, DeLaughter K, White L, King HA, Henderson B, Vega R, & Damschroder L. (2020). Implementation and sustainment of diverse practices in a large integrated health system: a mixed methods study. Implementation science communications, 1, 61.
Raghavan S, Ho YL, Vassy JL, Posner D, Honerlaw J, Costa L, Phillips LS, Gagnon DR, Wilson P, & Cho K. (2020). Optimizing Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk Estimation for Veterans With Diabetes Mellitus. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes, CIRCOUTCOMES120006528. Advance online publication.
Robinson SA, Wan ES, Shimada SL, Richardson CR, Moy ML. Age and Attitudes Towards an Internet-Mediated, Pedometer-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Secondary Analysis. JMIR Aging. 2020;3(2):e19527. Published 2020 Sep 9.
Tschanz CMP, Cushman WC, E Harrell CT, Berlowitz DR, Sall JL. Synopsis of the 2020 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs/U.S. Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guideline: The Diagnosis and Management of Hypertension in the Primary Care Setting [published online ahead of print, 2020 Sep 1]. Ann Intern Med. 2020;10.7326/M20-3798.
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