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Mental Health QUERI

The Mental Health Quality Enhancement Research Initiative is a national research program funded by the Health Services Research and Development Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Mental Health QUERI's mission is to improve quality of care, outcomes, and health-related quality of life for veterans with depression and schizophrenia by promoting research to close gaps in knowledge and implementing evidence-based practices. Our research covers issues faced by veterans with depression or schizophrenia, their families,

their providers and the health care systems that serve them. It has matured from early studies of measurement methods, informatics, and deviations of current practice from best practice to our current portfolio of intervention projects, many of which are reporting positive findings. In addition, Mental Health QUERI has moved rapidly to conduct large quality improvement research projects that aim to implement practices with a substantial evidence base: collaborative care for depression in primary care settings and evidence-based antipsychotic management for schizophrenia. This research occurs not only as part of the Mental Health QUERI program but also in collaboration with researchers from other organizations and programs. As interventions to improve care are demonstrated to be effective, Mental Health QUERI works to spread their implementation throughout the VA while studying the effectiveness of the implementation strategies employed.