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COIN News 2020
6 January 2021
2021 | 2020
2020 News
PERSIVED QUERI Program: Cari Levy, MD, PhD- The Preventing Unwanted Life-Sustaining Treatment by Eliciting Seriously Ill Veterans’ Care Preferences (PERSIVED) QUERI was funded in November 2020, with Dr. Cari Levy serving as Co-PI with Dr. Mary Ersek of the Philadelphia VA. The PERSIVED QUERI aims to prevent unwanted, burdensome life-sustaining treatment by consistently eliciting preferences for care from seriously ill Veterans who are receiving VA home based primary care (HBPC) or VA-paid community nursing home (CNH) services. The five-year project will enroll VA sites across the country to assist in improving documentation of life-sustaining treatment preferences for Veterans by working with VA staff in both HBPC and CNH programs.
Career Development Award: Joseph Simonetti, MD- Dr. Joe Simonetti’s Career Development Award was selected for funding by VA HSR&D. His proposal, Development and Testing of a Veteran-Centered Lethal Means Safety Suicide Prevention Intervention, aims to engage various stakeholders in the creation and piloting of a firearm and medication safety intervention among Veterans with elevated suicide risk who seek care in VHA Emergency Rooms. Firearm injuries account for nearly 70% of Veteran suicides each year.
Publication: Overcoming Barriers: Individual Experiences Obtaining Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder- Krista Scorsone, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC is an Advanced Health Services Research and Development Fellowship who published this article in the journal Quality Health Research.
Publication: Responding to the Call: a New JGIM Area of Emphasis for Implementation and Quality Improvement Sciences- Congratulations to Dr. Christian Helfrich on his supplemental issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine on implementation science and quality improvement has just been published online. The issue, which was co-sponsored by VA, was edited by our own Christian Helfrich, and Lucy Savitz from Kaiser Permanente. It includes some important new work on de-implementation of low-value care, and also marks the launch of implementation science as a new area of focus for the journal.
Feature: Palliative Care Intervention for Newly Diagnosed VA Outpatients with Lung Cancer- Dr. Lynn F. Reinke’s innovative work to test a nurse-led, telephone-based palliative care intervention to improve the delivery of care for Veterans with newly diagnosed lung cancer was recently featured on the HSR&D website
Dr Catherine Butler in the News- Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Butler, one of our first year HSR&D fellows was interviewed by JAMA Network Open Digital Media Editor, Dr. Seth Trueger, about her study to elicit the experiences and perspectives of US clinicians related to resource limitation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The interview is available on YouTube: Resource Limitations During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Her paper is available online: US Clinicians’ Experiences and Perspectives on Resource Limitation and Patient Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
