TY - JOUR
T1 - Using Research to Transform Care for Women Veterans
T2 - Advancing the Research Agenda and Enhancing Research–Clinical Partnerships
AU - Yano, Elizabeth M.
AU - Bastian, Lori A.
AU - Bean-Mayberry, Bevanne
AU - Eisen, Seth
AU - Frayne, Susan
AU - Hayes, Patricia
AU - Klap, Ruth
AU - Lipson, Linda
AU - Mattocks, Kristin
AU - McGlynn, Geraldine
AU - Sadler, Anne
AU - Schnurr, Paula
AU - Washington, Donna L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding Source: This paper is based on work supported by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Research and Development, Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Service and the Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group under the Office of Public Health & Environmental Hazards (now under the VA Office of Patient Care Services) (Project No. CSF 10-179 ). The project was also supported by VA Women's Health Research Consortium also funded by VA HSR&D Service (Project No. SDR 10-120 ). Dr. Yano's time was covered by a VA HSR&D Research Career Scientist award (Project No. RCS 05-195).
Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the vision and support of Dr. Seth Eisen, Director of the VA HSR&D Service, for the opportunity to design, organize, and convene the VA Women's Health Services Research Conference as one of seven field-based research meetings held in 2010. Conference development and design was led by an interdisciplinary and geographically diverse planning group comprised of field-based VA MD and PhD researchers from throughout the United States, in addition to representatives from VA HSR&D Service (Eisen, Lipson), the Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group (Hayes), and the VA HSR&D Center for Information Dissemination & Education Resources (CIDER; McGlynn). Field-based researchers included several of the original investigators involved in the original agenda-setting planning group convened in 2004 (Yano, Bastian, Frayne), principal investigators of several major VA studies of women veterans (Bean-Mayberry, Schnurr, Washington), an investigator with qualitative VA and DoD research experience (Sadler) and a junior investigator building a career in women veterans? research (Mattocks). Special thanks go to our invited speakers, who helped us to set the stage for implementing research into evidence-based practice and policy: Brig. Gen. Wilma L. Vaught, USAF (Ret.); the Honorable Robert L. Jesse, MD, PhD, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Health, Veterans Health Administration; Patricia Hayes, PhD, Chief Consultant, Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group; Madhulika Agarwal, MD, Chief Patient Care Services Officer; Susan McCutcheon, PhD, RN, Director, Family Services, Women's Mental Health and Military Sexual Trauma, Office of Mental Health Services; Joel Kupersmith, MD, Chief Research and Development Officer; Ciaran Phibbs, PhD, VA Health Economics Resource Center, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System; Captain E. Melissa Kaime, MD, Director, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs; Robert B. Wallace, MD, Chair, Board on Select Populations, Institute of Medicine and Professor, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics; Lt. Col. Lori L. Trego, PhD, CNM, Nursing Research Service, Tripler Army Medical Center; David Atkins, MD, MPH, Director, National VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), VA HSR&D Service; and David Lanier, MD, Associate Director, Center for Primary Care, Prevention and Clinical Partnership, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ). We would also like to acknowledge the contributions of all of the meeting attendees whose participation throughout the conference led to the formulation of research priorities that are the substance of the resulting agenda. The conference was launched at a reception at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington Cemetery, surrounding attendees in a powerful physical place that served as a reminder of the history of women's contributions to the military over the generations. We thank Brig. Gen. Wilma L. Vaught, USAF (Ret.), President of the Memorial Foundation, and Memorial staff for their support and assistance. The conference could not have taken place without the enormous commitment of exceptional staff responsible for the design and logistics of the conference on-the-ground: Ruth Klap, PhD, Ismelda Canelo, MPA, Britney Chow, MPH, Jennifer Peralta, Acacia Hori, Amy Lau, MPH, and Susan Stockdale, PhD. We also thank Mark Canning, Sam Garcia, MFA, and Vera Snyder-Schwartz, MA, for their coordination of the business aspects of conference arrangements, contracts and supplies. Several key Conference presentations are available to the public on http://www.research.va.gov/programs/womens_health/conference2010/default.cfm.
PY - 2011/7/1
Y1 - 2011/7/1
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to report on the outcomes of the 2010 VA Women's Health Services Research Conference, which brought together investigators interested in pursuing research on women veterans and women in the military with leaders in women's health care delivery and policy within and outside the VA, to significantly advance the state and future direction of VA women's health research and its potential impacts on practice and policy. Building on priorities assembled in the previous VA research agenda (2004) and the research conducted in the intervening six years, we used an array of approaches to foster research-clinical partnerships that integrated the state-of-the-science with the informational and strategic needs of senior policy and practice leaders. With demonstrated leadership commitment and support, broad field-based participation, strong interagency collaboration and a push to accelerate the move from observational to interventional and implementation research, the Conference provided a vital venue for establishing the foundation for a new research agenda. In this paper, we provide the historical evolution of the emergence of women veterans' health services research and an overview of the research in the intervening years since the first VA women's health research agenda. We then present the resulting VA Women's Health Research Agenda priorities and supporting activities designed to transform care for women veterans in six broad areas of study, including access to care and rural health; primary care and prevention; mental health; post deployment health; complex chronic conditions, aging and long-term care; and reproductive health. Published by Elsevier Inc.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to report on the outcomes of the 2010 VA Women's Health Services Research Conference, which brought together investigators interested in pursuing research on women veterans and women in the military with leaders in women's health care delivery and policy within and outside the VA, to significantly advance the state and future direction of VA women's health research and its potential impacts on practice and policy. Building on priorities assembled in the previous VA research agenda (2004) and the research conducted in the intervening six years, we used an array of approaches to foster research-clinical partnerships that integrated the state-of-the-science with the informational and strategic needs of senior policy and practice leaders. With demonstrated leadership commitment and support, broad field-based participation, strong interagency collaboration and a push to accelerate the move from observational to interventional and implementation research, the Conference provided a vital venue for establishing the foundation for a new research agenda. In this paper, we provide the historical evolution of the emergence of women veterans' health services research and an overview of the research in the intervening years since the first VA women's health research agenda. We then present the resulting VA Women's Health Research Agenda priorities and supporting activities designed to transform care for women veterans in six broad areas of study, including access to care and rural health; primary care and prevention; mental health; post deployment health; complex chronic conditions, aging and long-term care; and reproductive health. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.whi.2011.04.002
DO - 10.1016/j.whi.2011.04.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 21724148
AN - SCOPUS:80155198362
SN - 1049-3867
VL - 21
SP - S73-S83
JO - Women's Health Issues
JF - Women's Health Issues
IS - 4
ER -