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Bhalla, I. P., Stefanovics, E. A., & Rosenheck, R. A. (2020). Social determinants of mental health care systems: Intensive community based care in the Veterans Health Administration. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1311. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09402-0

Hale-Gallardo, J., Kreider, C. M., Ni, Y., Semeah, L. M., Ahonle, Z. J., Cowper-Ripley, D. C., Mburu, S., Delisle, A. T., & Jia, H. (2020). Serving rural veterans with disabilities: A national survey of centers for independent living. Journal of Community Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00941-6

Hebert, P. L., Wong, E. S., Reddy, A., Batten, A., Gunnink, E., Wagner, T. H., & Liu, C.-F. (2020). Events associated with changes in reliance on the Veterans Health Administration among Medicare-eligible veterans. Medical Care, 58(8), 710–716. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001328

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Kullgren, J. T., Fagerlin, A., & Kerr, E. A. (2020). Completing the MISSION: A blueprint for helping veterans make the most of new choices. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(5), 1567–1570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05404-w

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Miller, C., Gurewich, D., Garvin, L., Pugatch, M., Koppelman, E., Pendergast, J., Harrington, K., & Clark, J. A. (2020). Veterans Affairs and rural community providers’ perspectives on interorganizational care coordination: A qualitative analysis. The Journal of Rural Health. https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12453

Monteith, L. L., Smith, N. B., Holliday, R., Dorsey Holliman, B. A., LoFaro, C. T., & Mohatt, N. V. (2020). “We’re afraid to say suicide”: Stigma as a barrier to implementing a community-based suicide prevention program for rural veterans. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 208(5), 371–376. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001139

Rosen, A. K., Vanneman, M. E., O’Brien, W. J., Pershing, S., Wagner, T. H., Beilstein‐Wedel, E., Lo, J., Chen, Q., Cockerham, G. C., & Shwartz, M. (2020). Comparing cataract surgery complication rates in veterans receiving VA and community care. Health Services Research, 55(5), 690–700. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13320

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Vanneman, M. E., Wagner, T. H., Shwartz, M., Meterko, M., Francis, J., Greenstone, C. L., & Rosen, A. K. (2020). Veterans’ experiences with outpatient care: Comparing the Veterans Affairs system with community-based care. Health Affairs, 39(8), 1368–1376. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01375

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Weaver, F. M., Hickok, A., Prasad, B., Tarlov, E., Zhang, Q., Taylor, A., Bartle, B., Gordon, H., Young, R., Sarmiento, K., & Hynes, D. M. (2020). Comparing VA and community-based care: Trends in sleep studies following the Veterans Choice Act. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(9), 2593–2599. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05802-5

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Akmal, R., Manawan, E. E., & Saleh, M. I. (2020). Competition test Veteran Affairs Medical Centre (VAMC) score and KIMS-14 for predicting the dehiscence of abdoment post laparotomy operating wounds. Sriwijaya Journal of Surgery, 3(1), 11–22. https://doi.org/10.37275/sjs.v3i1.24

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Anderson, T. S., Lee, S., Jing, B., Fung, K., Ngo, S., Silvestrini, M., & Steinman, M. A. (2020). Prevalence of diabetes medication intensifications in older adults discharged from US Veterans Health Administration hospitals. JAMA Network Open, 3(3), e201511. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.1511

Anderson, T. S., Leonard, S., Zhang, A. J., Madden, E., Mowery, D., Chapman, W. W., & Keyhani, S. (2020). Trends in low-value carotid imaging in the Veterans Health Administration from 2007 to 2016. JAMA Network Open, 3(9), e2015250–e2015250. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.15250

Bahraini, N., Brenner, L. A., Barry, C., Hostetter, T., Keusch, J., Post, E. P., Kessler, C., Smith, C., & Matarazzo, B. B. (2020). Assessment of rates of suicide risk screening and prevalence of positive screening results among US veterans after implementation of the Veterans Affairs suicide risk identification strategy. JAMA Network Open, 3(10), e2022531. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22531

Bailey, D. N. (2020). The Veterans Affairs healthcare system and academic pathology departments: Evaluation of the relationship. Academic Pathology, 7, 2374289520939265. https://doi.org/10.1177/2374289520939265

Baker, J. F., Leonard, C. E., Re, V. L., Weisman, M. H., George, M. D., & Kay, J. (2020). Biosimilar uptake in academic and Veterans Health Administration settings: Influence of institutional incentives. Arthritis & Rheumatology, 72(7), 1067–1071. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.41277

Barnett, P. G., Jacobs, J. C., Jarvik, J. G., Chou, R., Boothroyd, D., Lo, J., & Nevedal, A. (2020). Assessment of primary care clinician concordance with guidelines for use of magnetic resonance imaging in patients with nonspecific low back pain in the Veterans Affairs health system. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e2010343–e2010343. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.10343

Bauml, J. M., Vinnakota, R., Anna Park, Y., Bates, S. E., Fojo, T., Aggarwal, C., Di Stefano, J., Knepley, C., Limaye, S., Mamtani, R., Wisnivesky, J., Damjanov, N., Langer, C. J., Cohen, R. B., & Sigel, K. (2019). Cisplatin versus cetuximab with definitive concurrent radiotherapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: An analysis of Veterans Health Affairs data. Cancer, 125(3), 406–415. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.31816

Bazemore, K. E., Barker, M., Morgan, B. T., & Goode, V. (2019). Utilization of the stop-bang questionnaire as a standardized screening tool for obstructive sleep apnea in Veteran Administration surgical patients. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 34(1), 60–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2017.11.006

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Blosnich, J. R., Montgomery, A. E., Taylor, L. D., & Dichter, M. E. (2020). Adverse social factors and all-cause mortality among male and female patients receiving care in the Veterans Health Administration. Preventive Medicine, 141, 106272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106272

Boehm, L. M., Drumright, K., Gervasio, R., Hill, C., & Reed, N. (2020). Implementation of a patient and family-centered ICU peer support program at a Veterans Affairs hospital. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 32(2), 203–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnc.2020.02.003

Bokhour, B. G., Haun, J. N., Hyde, J., Charns, M., & Kligler, B. (2020). Transforming the Veterans Affairs to a whole health system of care: Time for action and research. Medical Care, 58(4), 295–300. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001316

Borges, L. M., Bahraini, N. H., Holliman, B. D., Gissen, M. R., Lawson, W. C., & Barnes, S. M. (2020). Veterans’ perspectives on discussing moral injury in the context of evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD and other VA treatment. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 76(3), 377–391. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22887

Bostwick, A. D., Jones, B. E., Paine, R., Goetz, M. B., Samore, M., & Jones, M. (2019). Potential impact of hospital-acquired pneumonia guidelines on empiric antibiotics. An evaluation of 113 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 16(11), 1392–1398. https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201902-162OC

Bounthavong, M., Devine, E. B., Christopher, M. L. D., Harvey, M. A., Veenstra, D. L., & Basu, A. (2019). Implementation evaluation of academic detailing on naloxone prescribing trends at the United States Veterans Health Administration. Health Services Research, 54(5), 1055–1064. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13194

Bounthavong, M., Lau, M. K., Popish, S. J., Kay, C. L., Wells, D. L., Himstreet, J. E., Harvey, M. A., & Christopher, M. L. D. (2020). Impact of academic detailing on Benzodiazepine use among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. Substance Abuse, 41(1), 101–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2019.1573777

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Brockberg, D. (2019). Predicting VA help-seeking decision-making in OIF/OEF/OND veterans: Examining the role of veteran culture [Doctoral dissertation, The University of Wisconsin – Madison].

Brostow, D. P., Warsavage, T. J., Abbate, L. M., Starosta, A. J., Brenner, L. A., Plomondon, M. E., & Valle, J. A. (2019). Mental illness and obesity among Veterans undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from the VA CART program. Clinical Obesity, 9(2), e12300. https://doi.org/10.1111/cob.12300

Burke, R. E., & Kinosian, B. (2020). Addressing the “total taxpayer” problem to translate Veterans Health Administration innovations in long-term supports. Public Policy & Aging Report, 30(1), 24–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/prz029

Busch, F. N., Nehrig, N., & Milrod, B. (2019). Trauma-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy of a patient with PTSD in a Veterans Affairs setting. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 72(1), 24–28. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180019

Butt, A. A., Yan, P., Lo Re III, V., Shaikh, O. S., & Ross, D. B. (2019). Trends in treatment uptake and provider specialty for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System: Results from the electronically retrieved cohort of HCV-infected veterans (ERCHIVES). Clinical Infectious Diseases, 68(5), 857–859. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy697

Carter, S. P., Malte, C. A., Rojas, S. M., Hawkins, E. J., & Reger, M. A. (2020). Examination of potential disparities in suicide risk identification and follow-up care within the Veterans Health Administration. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 50(6), 1127–1139. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12673

Cates, J., Lucero-Obusan, C., Dahl, R. M., Schirmer, P., Garg, S., Oda, G., Hall, A. J., Langley, G., Havers, F. P., Holodniy, M., & Cardemil, C. V. (2020). Risk for in-hospital complications associated with COVID-19 and influenza—Veterans Health Administration, United States, October 1, 2018–May 31, 2020. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 69(42), 1528–1534. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6942e3

Chang, E. T., Zulman, D. M., Nelson, K. M., Rosland, A.-M., Ganz, D. A., Fihn, S. D., Piegari, R., & Rubenstein, L. V. (2020). Use of general primary care, specialized primary care, and other Veterans Affairs services among high-risk veterans. JAMA Network Open, 3(6), e208120. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.8120

Connolly, S. L., Stolzmann, K. L., Heyworth, L., Weaver, K. R., Bauer, M. S., & Miller, C. J. (2020). Rapid increase in telemental health within the Department of Veterans Affairs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine and E-Health. https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0233

Cornell, P. Y., Halladay, C. W., Ader, J., Halaszynski, J., Hogue, M., McClain, C. E., Silva, J. W., Taylor, L. D., & Rudolph, J. L. (2020). Embedding social workers in Veterans Health Administration primary care teams reduces emergency department visits. Health Affairs, 39(4), 603–612. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01589

De Aquino, J. P., Fairgrieve, C., Klaire, S., & Garcia-Vassallo, G. (2020). Rapid transition from Methadone to Buprenorphine utilizing a micro-dosing protocol in the outpatient Veteran Affairs setting. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 14(5), e271. https://doi.org/10.1097/ADM.0000000000000618

Dedert, E. A., LoSavio, S. T., Wells, S. Y., Steel, A. L., Reinhardt, K., Deming, C. A., Ruffin, R. A., Berlin, K. L., Kimbrel, N. A., Wilson, S. M., Boeding, S. E., & Clancy, C. P. (2020). Clinical effectiveness study of a treatment to prepare for trauma-focused evidence-based psychotherapies at a Veterans Affairs specialty posttraumatic stress disorder clinic. Psychological Services. https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000425

Der-Martirosian, C., Chu, K., & Dobalian, A. (2020). Use of telehealth to improve access to care at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.88

Dieringer, T. D., Furukawa, D., Graber, C. J., Stevens, V. W., Jones, M. M., Rubin, M. A., & Goetz, M. B. (2020). Inpatient antibiotic utilization in the Veterans’ Health Administration during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1277

Duhaney, T. (2020). How veteran utilization of the Veterans Health Administration could impact privatization. Public Policy & Aging Report, 30(1), 29–35. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/prz032

Dursa, E. K., Tadesse, B. E., Carter, C. E., Culpepper, W. J., Schneiderman, A. I., & Rumm, P. D. (2020). Respiratory illness among Gulf War and Gulf War era veterans who use the Department of Veterans Affairs for healthcare. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 63(11), 980–987. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23172

Driver, K. (2019). Proposed improvements in Veteran Administration mental health and substance abuse treatment services [Master’s thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology]. https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10213

Duffy, S. A., Ignacio, R. V., Kim, H. M., Geraci, M. C., Essenmacher, C. A., Hall, S. V., Chow, A., Pfeiffer, P. N., Sherman, S. E., Bohnert, K. M., Zivin, K., & Barnett, P. G. (2019). Effectiveness of tobacco cessation pharmacotherapy in the Veterans Health Administration. Tobacco Control, 28(5), 540–547. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054473

Dunn, S. H., Rogal, S. S., Maier, M. M., Chartier, M., Morgan, T. R., & Beste, L. A. (2019). Access to comprehensive services for advanced liver disease in the Veterans Health Administration. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 64(12), 3471–3479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-019-05785-2

Dyer, K. E., Potter, S. J., Hamilton, A. B., Luger, T. M., Bergman, A. A., Yano, E. M., & Klap, R. (2019). Gender differences in veterans’ perceptions of harassment on Veterans Health Administration grounds. Women’s Health Issues, 29, S83–S93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2019.04.016

Earl, B. S. W., Klee, A., Cooke, J. D., & Edens, E. L. (2019). Beyond the 12 steps: Integrating chaplaincy services into Veteran Affairs substance use specialty care. Substance Abuse, 40(4), 444–452. https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2019.1621243

Edwards, S. T., Kim, H., Shull, S., Hooker, E. R., Niederhausen, M., & Tuepker, A. (2019). Quality of outpatient care with internal medicine residents vs attending physicians in Veterans Affairs primary care clinics. JAMA Internal Medicine, 179(5), 711–713. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.8624

Eliacin, J., Matthias, M. S., Cunningham, B., & Burgess, D. J. (2020). Veterans’ perceptions of racial bias in VA mental healthcare and their impacts on patient engagement and patient-provider communication. Patient Education and Counseling, 103(9), 1798–1804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2020.03.017

Elwy, A. R., Taylor, S. L., Zhao, S., McGowan, M., Plumb, D. N., Westleigh, W., Gaj, L., Yan, G. W., & Bokhour, B. G. (2020). Participating in complementary and integrative health approaches is associated with veterans’ patient-reported outcomes over time. Medical Care, 58, S125. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001357

Esmaeili, A., Yu, W., Cucciare, M. A., Combs, A. S., Joshi, G., & Humphreys, K. (2020). Budget impact analysis of a computer-delivered brief alcohol intervention in Veterans Affairs (VA) liver clinics: A randomized controlled trial. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 38(4), 515–531. https://doi.org/10.1080/07347324.2020.1760755

Etingen, B., Amante, D. J., Martinez, R. N., Smith, B. M., Shimada, S. L., Richardson, L., Patterson, A., Houston, T. K., Frisbee, K. L., & Hogan, T. P. (2020). 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. Journal of Participatory Medicine, 12(3), e21214. https://doi.org/10.2196/21214

Etingen, B., Patrianakos, J., Wirth, M., Hogan, T. P., Smith, B. M., Tarlov, E., Stroupe, K. T., Kartje, R., & Weaver, F. M. (2020). TeleWound practice within the Veterans Health Administration: Protocol for a mixed methods program evaluation. JMIR Research Protocols, 9(7), e20139. https://doi.org/10.2196/20139

Farrokhi, S., Russell Esposito, E., McPherson, D., Mazzone, B., Condon, R., Patterson, C. G., Schneider, M., Greco, C. M., Delitto, A., Highsmith, M. J., Hendershot, B. D., Maikos, J., & Dearth, C. L. (2020). Resolving the burden of low back pain in military service members and veterans (RESOLVE): Protocol for a multisite pragmatic clinical trial. Pain Medicine, 21(S2), S45–S52. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnaa367

Finley, E. P., Garcia, H. A., Ramirez, V. A., Haro, E. K., Mignogna, J., DeBeer, B., & Wiltsey-Stirman, S. (2020). Treatment selection among posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) specialty care providers in the Veterans Health Administration: A thematic analysis. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(3), 251–259. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000477

Fischer, M. J., Kourany, W. M., Sovern, K., Forrester, K., Griffin, C., Lightner, N., Loftus, S., Murphy, K., Roth, G., Palevsky, P. M., & Crowley, S. T. (2020). Development, implementation and user experience of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) dialysis dashboard. BMC Nephrology, 21(1), 136. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-01798-6

Flanigan, T. L., Kiskaddon, E. M., Rogozinski, J. A., Thomas, M. D., Froehle, A. W., & Krishnamurthy, A. B. (2020). Predictive factors of extended length of hospital stay following total joint arthroplasty in a Veterans Affairs hospital population. The Journal of Arthroplasty. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arth.2020.11.006

Foley, N. M., Hardin, M., Park, B., Rahaman, Z., Huang, S., Kelly, K., Ooi, H., Danter, M. R., Wigger, M. A., Shah, A. S., & Balsara, K. (2020). Veteran Affairs partnership improves access to high volume, quality heart transplant programs. It ain’t broke! The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 39(4), S362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2020.01.440

Folmer, R. L., Smith, C. J., Boudreau, E. A., Hickok, A. W., Totten, A. M., Kaul, B., Stepnowsky, C. J., Whooley, M. A., & Sarmiento, K. F. (2020). Prevalence and management of sleep disorders in the Veterans Health Administration. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 54, 101358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2020.101358

Frost, M. C., Ioannou, G. N., Tsui, J. I., Edelman, E. J., Weiner, B. J., Fletcher, O. V., & Williams, E. C. (2020). Practice facilitation to implement alcohol-related care in Veterans Health Administration liver clinics: A study protocol. Implementation Science Communications, 1(1), 68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-020-00062-0

Gaffney, A., Bor, D. H., Himmelstein, D. U., Woolhandler, S., & McCormick, D. (2020). The effect of Veterans Health Administration coverage on cost-related medication nonadherence. Health Affairs, 39(1), 33–40. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00481

Gidwani, R., Asch, S. M., Needleman, J., Faricy‐Anderson, K., Boothroyd, D. B., Illarmo, S., Lorenz, K. A., Patel, M. I., Hsin, G., Ramchandran, K., & Wagner, T. H. (2020). End-of-life cost trajectories in cancer patients treated by Medicare versus the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16941

Gidwani-Marszowski, R., Boothroyd, D., Needleman, J., Illarmo, S., & Asch, S. M. (2020). Comorbidity assessment is uneven across Veterans Health Administration and Medicare for the same patient: Implications for risk adjustment. Medical Care, 58(8), 717–721. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001329

Gidwani‐Marszowski, R., Faricy‐Anderson, K., Asch, S. M., Illarmo, S., Ananth, L., & Patel, M. I. (2020). Potentially avoidable hospitalizations after chemotherapy: Differences across Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration. Cancer, 126(14), 3297–3302. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.32896

Gill, S., Mills, P. D., Watts, B. V., Paul, D. E., & Tomolo, A. (2020). A review of adverse event reports from emergency departments in the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of Patient Safety. https://doi.org/10.1097/pts.0000000000000636

Glasgow, R. E., Battaglia, C., McCreight, M., Ayele, R. A., & Rabin, B. A. (2020). Making implementation science more rapid: Use of the RE-AIM framework for mid-course adaptations across five health services research projects in the Veterans Health Administration. Frontiers in Public Health, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00194

Golden, S. E., Hooker, E. R., Shull, S., Howard, M., Crothers, K., Thompson, R. F., & Slatore, C. G. (2020). Validity of Veterans Health Administration structured data to determine accurate smoking status. Health Informatics Journal, 26(3), 1507–1515. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458219882259

Gordon, A. J., Drexler, K., Hawkins, E. J., Burden, J., Codell, N. K., Mhatre-Owens, A., Dungan, M. T., & Hagedorn, H. (2020). Stepped care for opioid use disorder train the trainer (SCOUTT) initiative: Expanding access to medication treatment for opioid use disorder within Veterans Health Administration facilities. Substance Abuse, 41(3), 275–282. https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2020.1787299

Graff, J. N., & Huang, G. D. (2020). Leveraging Veterans Health Administration clinical and research resources to accelerate discovery and testing in precision oncology. Federal Practitioner, 37(S4), S62–S67. https://doi.org/10.12788/fp.0028

Graham, L. A., Malone, E. B., Richman, J. S., Carson, A. P., Affuso, O., Knight, S. J., & Levitan, E. B. (2020). Association of food access, recreational opportunities, and natural amenities with engagement in the veterans MOVE! weight management program. Obesity, 28(1), 55–64. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22640

Gregg, E., Linn, C., Nace, E., Gelberg, L., Cowan, B., & Fulcher, J. A. (2020). Implementation of HIV preexposure Prophylaxis in a homeless primary care setting at the Veterans Affairs. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 11, 2150132720908370. https://doi.org/10.1177/2150132720908370

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Hadlandsmyth, K., Mosher, H. J., Bayman, E. O., Wikle, J. G., & Lund, B. C. (2020). A typology of new long-term opioid prescribing in the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(9), 2607–2613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05749-7

Hale-Gallardo, J. L., Kreider, C. M., Jia, H., Castaneda, G., Freytes, I. M., Cowper Ripley, D. C., Ahonle, Z. J., Findley, K., & Romero, S. (2020). Telerehabilitation for rural veterans: A qualitative assessment of barriers and facilitators to implementation. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 13, 559–570. https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S247267

Hannemann, C. M., Katz, I. R., McCarthy, M. E., Hughes, G. J., McKeon, R., & McCarthy, J. F. (2020). Suicide mortality and related behavior following calls to the Veterans Crisis Line by Veterans Health Administration patients. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12722

Hebert, P. L., Wong, E. S., Reddy, A., Batten, A., Gunnink, E., Wagner, T. H., & Liu, C.-F. (2020). Events associated with changes in reliance on the Veterans Health Administration among Medicare-eligible veterans. Medical Care, 58(8), 710–716. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001328

Helget, L. N., England, B. R., Roul, P., Sayles, H., Petro, A. D., Michaud, K., & Mikuls, T. R. (2020). The incidence, prevalence, and burden of gout in the Veterans Health Administration. Arthritis Care & Research, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24339

Hernandez, S. E., Sylling, P. W., Mor, M. K., Fine, M. J., Nelson, K. M., Wong, E. S., Liu, C.-F., Batten, A. J., Fihn, S. D., & Hebert, P. L. (2020). Developing an algorithm for combining race and ethnicity data sources in the Veterans Health Administration. Military Medicine, 185(3–4), e495–e500. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usz322

Hess, P. L., Kini, V., Liu, W., Roldan, P., Autruong, P., Grunwald, G. K., O’Donnell, C., Doll, J. A., Ho, P. M., & Bradley, S. M. (2020). Appropriateness of percutaneous coronary interventions in patients with stable coronary artery disease in US Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals from 2013 to 2015. JAMA Network Open, 3(4), e203144–e203144. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3144

Holder, N., Shiner, B., Li, Y., Madden, E., Neylan, T. C., Seal, K. H., Lujan, C., Patterson, O. V., DuVall, S. L., & Maguen, S. (2020). Cognitive processing therapy for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: What is the median effective dose? Journal of Affective Disorders, 273, 425–433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.04.030

Holliday, R., Smith, N. B., Holder, N., Gross, G. M., Monteith, L. L., Maguen, S., Hoff, R. A., & Harpaz-Rotem, I. (2020). Comparing the effectiveness of VA residential PTSD treatment for veterans who do and do not report a history of MST: A national investigation. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 122, 42–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2019.12.012

Ingram, P. B., Tarescavage, A. M., Ben-Porath, Y. S., & Oehlert, M. E. (2020). Patterns of MMPI-2-restructured form (MMPI-2-RF) validity scale scores observed across Veteran Affairs settings. Psychological Services, 17(3), 355–362. https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000339

Intrator, O., Li, J., Gillespie, S. M., Levy, C., Davis, D., Edes, T., Kinosian, B., & Karuza, J. (2020). Benchmarking site of death and hospice use: A case study of veterans cared by Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care. Medical Care, 58(9), 805–814. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001361

Jackson, G. L., Cutrona, S. L., White, B. S., Reardon, C. M., Orvek, E., Nevedal, A. L., Lindquist, J., Gifford, A. L., White, L., King, H. A., DeLaughter, K., Houston, T. K., Henderson, B., Vega, R., Kilbourne, A. M., & Damschroder, L. J. (2020). Merging implementation practice and science to scale up promising practices: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Diffusion of Excellence (DoE) Program. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2020.11.014

Jayani, R., Markert, R. J., Heard, A., & Kumar, G. (2020). Distress evaluation in a Veteran Affairs oncology clinic. Supportive Care in Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05574-y

Jiang, C. Y., El-Kouri, N. T., Elliot, D., Shields, J., Caram, M. E. V., Frankel, T. L., Ramnath, N., & Passero, V. A. (2020). Telehealth for cancer care in veterans: Opportunities and challenges revealed by COVID. JCO Oncology Practice, OP.20.00520. https://doi.org/10.1200/OP.20.00520

Karel, M. J., Wray, L. O., Adler, G., Hannum, A. O. R., Luci, K., Brady, L. A., & McGuire, M. H. (2020). Mental health needs of aging veterans: Recent evidence and clinical recommendations. Clinical Gerontologist, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/07317115.2020.1716910

Katz, I., Barry, C. N., Cooper, S. A., Kasprow, W. J., & Hoff, R. A. (2020). Use of the Columbia-suicide severity rating scale (C-SSRS) in a large sample of veterans receiving mental health services in the Veterans Health Administration. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 50(1), 111–121. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12584

Katz, I. R., Dent, K. R., Morley, S. W., Hein, T. C., Hoff, R. A., & McCarthy, J. F. (2020). Can “deaths of despair” serve as a focus for planning and evaluating clinical and preventive services for veterans? Psychiatry Research, 285, 112841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112841

Katz, I. R., Resnick, S. G., Kasprow, W. J., Boden, M. T., Cherkasova, E., Fielstein, E. M., Trafton, J. A., & Hoff, R. A. (2020). Using patient-reported outcome measures for program evaluation: Design and findings on intention-to-treat outcomes from the veterans outcome assessment survey. Psychiatry Research, 291, 113226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113226

Khan, N., Patel, D., Xie, D., Lewis, J., Trivedi, C., & Yang, Y.-X. (2020). Impact of anti-tumor necrosis factor and Thiopurine medications on the development of COVID-19 in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A nationwide Veterans Administration cohort study. Gastroenterology, 159(4), 1545-1546.e1. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2020.05.065

King, R., Mariano, E. R., Yajnik, M., Kou, A., Kim, T. E., Hunter, O. O., Howard, S. K., & Mudumbai, S. C. (2019). Outcomes of ambulatory upper extremity surgery patients discharged home with perineural catheters from a Veterans Health Administration Medical Center. Pain Medicine, 20(11), 2256–2262. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnz023 

King, J. T., Yoon, J. S., Rentsch, C. T., Tate, J. P., Park, L. S., Kidwai-Khan, F., Skanderson, M., Hauser, R. G., Jacobson, D. A., Erdos, J., Cho, K., Ramoni, R., Gagnon, D. R., & Justice, A. C. (2020). Development and validation of a 30-day mortality index based on pre-existing medical administrative data from 13,323 COVID-19 patients: The Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) index. Plos One, 15(11), e0241825. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241825

Klap, R., Darling, J. E., Hamilton, A. B., Rose, D. E., Dyer, K., Canelo, I., Haskell, S., & Yano, E. M. (2019). Prevalence of stranger harassment of women veterans at Veterans Affairs medical centers and impacts on delayed and missed care. Women’s Health Issues, 29(2), 107–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2018.12.002

Klein, M., Scaria, G., & Ganti, A. K. (2019). Utilization of the Veterans Affairs Central Cancer Registry to evaluate lung cancer outcomes. Seminars in Oncology, 46(4), 321–326. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.seminoncol.2019.10.001

Koenders, S. L. (2019). Veteran experiences of living with chronic pain in the context of VA care and an opioid “epidemic” [Master’s thesis, Boston University].

Kritz, G. (2019). Evaluating the effects of an educational intervention on compassion fatigue in Veteran Affairs hospice nursing staff [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kroenke, K., Krebs, E. E., Turk, D., Von Korff, M., Bair, M. J., Allen, K. D., Sandbrink, F., Cheville, A. L., DeBar, L., Lorenz, K. A., & Kerns, R. D. (2019). Core outcome measures for chronic musculoskeletal pain research: Recommendations from a Veterans Health Administration work group. Pain Medicine, 20(8), 1500–1508. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pny279

Kullgren, J. T., Fagerlin, A., & Kerr, E. A. (2020). Completing the MISSION: A blueprint for helping veterans make the most of new choices. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(5), 1567–1570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05404-w

Leef, G. C., Perino, A. C., Askari, M., Fan, J., Ho, P. M., Olivier, C. B., Longo, L., Mahaffey, K. W., & Turakhia, M. P. (2020). Appropriateness of direct oral anticoagulant dosing in patients with atrial fibrillation: Insights from the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 33(5), 647–653. https://doi.org/10.1177/0897190019828270

Leung, L. B., Rubenstein, L. V., Post, E. P., Trivedi, R. B., Hamilton, A. B., Yoon, J., Jaske, E., & Yano, E. M. (2020). Association of Veterans Affairs primary care mental health integration with care access among men and women veterans. JAMA Network Open, 3(10), e2020955. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20955

Levine, R. D., Ekanayake, R. N., Martin, A. C., Dickson, K., McGarrell, K., Miyahira, A., Campbell, R. S., Johnson, T., Soule, H. R., & Simons, J. W. (2020). Prostate Cancer Foundation-Department of Veterans Affairs partnership: A model of public-private collaboration to advance treatment and care of invasive cancers. Federal Practitioner, 37(S4), S32–S37. https://doi.org/10.12788/fp.0035

Levy, C., Ersek, M., Scott, W., Carpenter, J. G., Kononowech, J., Phibbs, C., Lowry, J., Cohen, J., & Foglia, M. (2020). Life-sustaining treatment decisions initiative: Early implementation results of a national Veterans Affairs program to honor veterans’ care preferences. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(6), 1803–1812. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05697-2

Lewis, J. A., Samuels, L. R., Denton, J., Edwards, G. C., Matheny, M. E., Maiga, A., Slatore, C. G., Grogan, E., Kim, J., Sherrier, R. H., Dittus, R. S., Massion, P. P., Keohane, L., Nikpay, S., & Roumie, C. L. (2020). National lung cancer screening utilization trends in the Veterans Health Administration. JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 4(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/jncics/pkaa053

Liu, C.-F., Hebert, P., Wong, E. S., Nelson, K., & Maynard, C. (2020). Midlife mortality in white non-Hispanic male veterans enrolled in Department of Veterans Affairs primary care, 2003–2014. Heliyon, 6(1), e03328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03328

Loeb, S., Byrne, N. K., Wang, B., Makarov, D. V., Becker, D., Wise, D. R., Lepor, H., & Walter, D. (2020). Exploring variation in the use of conservative management for low-risk prostate cancer in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system. European Urology, 77(6), 683–686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2020.02.004

Martin, J. L., Mysliwiec, V., Chowdhuri, S., & Ulmer, C. S. (2020). The Veterans Administration and Department of Defense clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders: What does this mean for the practice of sleep medicine? Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 16(8), 1377–1381. https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.8486

Martinez, R. N., Smith, B. M., French, D. D., Hogan, T. P., Gonzalez, B., Osteen, C. M., Hatch, M., Anderson, V., Tarlov, E., Silva, A., Goldstein, B., & Stroupe, K. T. (2020). Effect of the Affordable Care Act on healthcare utilization for veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders. The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2020.1829419

Massarweh, N. N., Itani, K. M. F., & Morris, M. S. (2020). The VA MISSION Act and the future of veterans’ access to quality health care. JAMA, 324(4), 343–344. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.4505

Mattocks, K., Rosen, M. I., Sellinger, J., Ngo, T., Brummett, B., Higgins, D. M., Reznik, T. E., Holtzheimer, P., Semiatin, A. M., Stapley, T., & Martino, S. (2020). Pain care in the Department of Veterans Affairs: Understanding how a cultural shift in pain care impacts provider decisions and collaboration. Pain Medicine, 21(5), 970–977. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnz341

Mayer, J., Stone, N. D., Leecaster, M., Hu, N., Pettey, W., Samore, M., Pacheco, S. M., Sambol, S., Donskey, C., Jencson, A., Gupta, K., Strymish, J., Johnson, D., Woods, C., Young, E., McDonald, L. C., & Gerding, D. (2020). Reinforcement of an infection control bundle targeting prevention practices for clostridioides difficile in Veterans Health Administration nursing homes. American Journal of Infection Control, 48(6), 626–632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2019.09.019

McFarland, M. S., Nelson, J., Ourth, H., Groppi, J., & Morreale, A. (2020). Optimizing the primary care clinical pharmacy specialist: Increasing patient access and quality of care within the Veterans Health Administration. JACCP: Journal of The American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 3(2), 494–500. https://doi.org/10.1002/jac5.1177

Meerwijk, E. L., Larson, M. J., Schmidt, E. M., Adams, R. S., Bauer, M. R., Ritter, G. A., Buckenmaier, C., & Harris, A. H. S. (2020). Nonpharmacological treatment of army service members with chronic pain is associated with fewer adverse outcomes after transition to the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(3), 775–783. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05450-4

Melcer, T., Walker, J., Bhatnagar, V., & Richard, E. (2020). Clinic use at the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs following combat related amputations. Military Medicine, 185(1–2), e244–e253. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usz149

Miller, C., Gurewich, D., Garvin, L., Pugatch, M., Koppelman, E., Pendergast, J., Harrington, K., & Clark, J. A. (2020). Veterans Affairs and rural community providers’ perspectives on interorganizational care coordination: A qualitative analysis. The Journal of Rural Health. https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12453

Min, L., Ha, J.-K., Hofer, T. P., Sussman, J., Langa, K., Cushman, W. C., Tinetti, M., Kim, H. M., Maciejewski, M. L., Gillon, L., Larkin, A., Chan, C.-L., & Kerr, E. (2020). Validation of a health system measure to capture intensive medication treatment of hypertension in the Veterans Health Administration. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e205417–e205417. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.5417

Mittal, C., Dang, D., Stoffel, E., Menees, S., Scott, F. I., Ahnen, D., & Patel, S. G. (2020). Underutilization of lynch syndrome screening at two large Veterans Affairs medical centers. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 65(11), 3305–3315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-020-06340-0

Mohr, N. M., Wu, C., Ward, M. J., McNaughton, C. D., Richardson, K., & Kaboli, P. J. (2020). Potentially avoidable inter-facility transfer from Veterans Health Administration emergency departments: A cohort study. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 110. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-4956-6

Monteith, L. L., Wendleton, L., Bahraini, N. H., Matarazzo, B. B., Brimner, G., & Mohatt, N. V. (2020). Together with veterans: VA national strategy alignment and lessons learned from community-based suicide prevention for rural veterans. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 50(3), 588–600. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12613

Montgomery, A. D., Hammer, K. D., & Lo, T. S. (2020). Longitudinal study on the detection of clostridioides difficile at the Fargo Veteran Affairs Community Living Center. American Journal of Infection Control, 48(7), 843–845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2019.09.012

Montgomery, A. E., Rahman, F. A. K. M., Cusack, M., Varley, A., & Byrne, T. (2020). Correlates of transitions into housing instability among veterans accessing Veterans Health Administration health care. Medical Care, 58(12), 1105–1110. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001416

Montgomery, A. E., Shipherd, J. C., Kauth, M. R., Harris, K. W., & Blosnich, J. R. (2020). Use of Veterans Health Administration homeless programs among transgender and non-transgender veterans experiencing self-reported housing instability. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 31(2), 909–919. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2020.0068

Montgomery, A. E., Tsai, J., & Blosnich, J. R. (2020). Demographic correlates of veterans’ adverse social determinants of health. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 59(6), 828–836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2020.05.024

Montgomery, B., Rettig, M., Kasten, J., Muralidhar, S., Myrie, K., & Ramoni, R. (2020). The Precision Oncology Program for Cancer of the Prostate (POPCaP) network: A Veterans Affairs/Prostate Cancer Foundation collaboration. Federal Practitioner, 37(S4), S48–S53. https://doi.org/10.12788/fp.0021

Moore, T., Groppi, J., Ourth, H., Morreale, A., & Torrise, V. (2020). Increasing access to care using clinical pharmacy specialist providers in outpatient mental health: Successful practice integration within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 60(5S), S107–S112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2020.03.011

Moreau, J. L., Dyer, K. E., Hamilton, A. B., Golden, R. E., Combs, A. S., Carney, D. V., Frayne, S. M., Yano, E. M., & Klap, R. (2020). Women veterans’ perspectives on how to make Veterans Affairs healthcare settings more welcoming to women. Women’s Health Issues, 30(4), 299–305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2020.03.004

Mudumbai, S. C., Chung, P., Nguyen, N., Harris, B., Clark, J. D., Wagner, T. H., Giori, N. J., Stafford, R. S., & Mariano, E. R. (2020). Perioperative opioid prescribing patterns and readmissions after total knee arthroplasty in a national cohort of Veterans Health Administration patients. Pain Medicine, 21(3), 595–603. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnz154

Myers, U. S., Coulon, S., Knies, K., Dickens, K., Keller, S. M., Birks, A., & Grubaugh, A. L. (2020). Lessons learned in implementing VA video connect for evidence-based psychotherapies for anxiety and depression in the Veterans Healthcare Administration. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41347-020-00161-8

Mysliwiec, V., Martin, J. L., Ulmer, C. S., Chowdhuri, S., Brock, M. S., Spevak, C., & Sall, J. (2020). The management of chronic insomnia disorder and obstructive sleep apnea: Synopsis of the 2019 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense clinical practice guidelines. Annals of Internal Medicine, 172(5), 325–336. https://doi.org/10.7326/M19-3575

Niznik, J. D., Hunnicutt, J. N., Zhao, X., Mor, M. K., Sileanu, F., Aspinall, S. L., Springer, S. P., Ersek, M. J., Gellad, W. F., Schleiden, L. J., Hanlon, J. T., Thorpe, J. M., & Thorpe, C. T. (2020). Deintensification of diabetes medications among veterans at the end of life in VA nursing homes. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 68(4), 736–745. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16360

Norona, J. C., Borsari, B., Armstrong, K., & Shonkwiler, S. (2020). Veterans’ treatment engagement and dropout from couple and family therapy in a Veterans Affairs health care system. Military Behavioral Health, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/21635781.2020.1864526

Oliva, E. M., Bowe, T., Manhapra, A., Kertesz, S., Hah, J. M., Henderson, P., Robinson, A., Paik, M., Sandbrink, F., Gordon, A. J., & Trafton, J. A. (2020). Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment, and overdose or suicide deaths in US veterans: Observational evaluation. BMJ, 368, m283. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m283

O’Malley, K. A., Vinson, L., Pless Kaiser, A., Sager, Z., & Hinrichs, K. (2020). Mental health and aging veterans: How the Veterans Health Administration meets the needs of aging veterans. Public Policy & Aging Report, 30(1), 19–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/prz027

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Osborne, T. F., Veigulis, Z. P., Arreola, D. M., Röösli, E., & Curtin, C. M. (2020). Automated EHR score to predict COVID-19 outcomes at US Department of Veterans Affairs. Plos One, 15(7), e0236554. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236554

Palframan, K. M., Blue‐Howells, J., Clark, S. C., & McCarthy, J. F. (2020). Veterans justice programs: Assessing population risks for suicide deaths and attempts. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 50(4), 792–804. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12631

Parizo, J. T., Kohsaka, S., Sandhu, A. T., Patel, J., & Heidenreich, P. A. (2020). Trends in readmission and mortality rates following heart failure hospitalization in the Veterans Affairs health care system from 2007 to 2017. JAMA Cardiology, 5(9), 1042–1047. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.2028

Peltzman, T., Gottlieb, D. J., Shiner, B., Riblet, N., & Watts, B. V. (2020). Electroconvulsive therapy in Veterans Health Administration hospitals: Prevalence, patterns of use, and patient characteristics. The Journal of ECT, 36(2), 130–136. https://doi.org/10.1097/YCT.0000000000000635

Powell, L., Sittig, D. F., Chrouser, K., & Singh, H. (2020). Assessment of health information technology–related outpatient diagnostic delays in the US Veterans Affairs health care system: A qualitative study of aggregated root cause analysis data. JAMA Network Open, 3(6), e206752. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.6752

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Ramakrishnan, A., & Patel, P. K. (2020). How far we’ve come, how far we have to go: A review of advances in antimicrobial stewardship in the Veterans Health Administration. Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases, 12(3), 275–284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40506-020-00221-w

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Rogal, S. S., Yakovchenko, V., Morgan, T., Bajaj, J. S., Gonzalez, R., Park, A., Beste, L., Miech, E. J., Lamorte, C., Neely, B., Gibson, S., Malone, P. S., Chartier, M., Taddei, T., Garcia-Tsao, G., Powell, B. J., Dominitz, J. A., Ross, D., & Chinman, M. J. (2020). 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. Implementation Science, 15(1), 92. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-020-01050-7

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