Partnership Forum: The Role of Research in the Transformation of Veterans Affairs Community Care

Michelle A Mengeling^{1

2}, Kristin M Mattocks^{3

4}, Denise M Hynes^{5

6}, Megan E Vanneman^{7

8

9}, Kameron L Matthews¹⁰, Amy K Rosen^{11

12}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE) and VA Office of Rural Health (ORH), Veterans Rural Health Resource Center-Iowa City (VRHRC-IC), Iowa City VA Health Care System.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.
³ VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Leeds.
⁴ Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
⁵ Center to Improve Veterans Involvement in Care (CIVIC) and Evidence Synthesis Program, Portland VA Healthcare System, Portland.
⁶ Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, and Health Data and Informatics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
⁷ Informatics, Decision-Enhancement and Analytic Sciences Center, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology.
⁹ Department of Population Health Sciences, Division of Health System Innovation and Research, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
¹⁰ Office of Community Care, Veterans Health Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
¹¹ Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Boston Healthcare System.
¹² Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

Michelle A Mengeling et al. Med Care. 2021.

. 2021 Jun 1;59(Suppl 3):S232-S241.

doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001488.

Michelle A Mengeling^{1

2}, Kristin M Mattocks^{3

4}, Denise M Hynes^{5

6}, Megan E Vanneman^{7

8

9}, Kameron L Matthews¹⁰, Amy K Rosen^{11

12}

¹ Center for Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE) and VA Office of Rural Health (ORH), Veterans Rural Health Resource Center-Iowa City (VRHRC-IC), Iowa City VA Health Care System.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.
³ VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Leeds.
⁴ Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
⁵ Center to Improve Veterans Involvement in Care (CIVIC) and Evidence Synthesis Program, Portland VA Healthcare System, Portland.
⁶ Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, and Health Data and Informatics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
⁷ Informatics, Decision-Enhancement and Analytic Sciences Center, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology.
⁹ Department of Population Health Sciences, Division of Health System Innovation and Research, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
¹⁰ Office of Community Care, Veterans Health Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC.
¹¹ Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), VA Boston Healthcare System.
¹² Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

Abstract

Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text.

All authors are employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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