This monthly publication highlights research conducted by HSR and/or QUERI investigators, showcasing the importance of research for Veterans - and the importance of Veterans for research.

Collaborative Groups Offer Healing for Veterans Suffering from Moral Injury - 05-2025
- Features the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT)

"If You Really Want to Be Successful, You Need to Be Engaged": Virtual Whole Health Groups Can Change Veteran Views On Health and Well-Being - 03-2025
- Features the Center for Health Optimization and Implementation Research (CHOIR)

How Veterans Feel About Genetic Testing for a Personalized Approach to Medications - 01-2025
- Features the PHASER QUERI

Journey Maps to Understand Veterans' Experiences with Food Insecurity - 11-2024
- Features the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety

"Something Has to Be Done to Make Women Feel Safe": Women Veterans' Recommendations for Strengthening the Veterans Crisis Line - 08-2024
- Features the Veterans Crisis Line (VCL)

“Moved by Love” Project Suggests Adaptations to Improve MOVE! for Black Veterans - 07-2024
- Features the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) and the Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value Driven Care (Seattle-Denver COIN)

Homeless Veterans' Struggle During COVID-19 Pandemic - 05-2024
- Features the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy (CSHIIP)

Engagement Panels Bring Veterans' Perspectives to Pain/Opioid AMP Research Priorities - 03-2024
- Features the Pain/Opioid Consortium of Research (CORE)

Perceived Benefits of Geriatric Specialty Telemedicine among Rural Veterans and Caregivers - 01-2024
- Features the Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research (CHOIR)

Veteran Research Engagement Panel: Seven Years of Co-Designing Research - 11-2023
- Features the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT)

Giving Veterans an Active Voice in Creating a Chronic Pain Research Agenda - 09-2023
- Features the Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare

Peers Aid Veterans' Engagement with Mental Health Self-Care Mobile Apps - 07-2023
- Features the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i)

Helping Homeless Veterans Cross the Digital Divide for Increased Access to Healthcare - 05-2023
- Features the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research

Spiritual Support for Veterans Re-entering the Community after Incarceration - 03-2023
- Features the Bridge QUERI Program

What Veterans Want Us to Know That We're Not Asking - 01-2023
- Features the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Teams (H-PACTs)

Veterans Crisis Line Gender Findings: Qualitative Interviews with Women Veterans - 11-2022
- Features the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP)

Black Veterans with Chronic Kidney Disease: Perspectives on Racism in Healthcare - 09-2022
- Features the Center for Health Equity Research & Promotion (CHERP)

ENCORE: Working with Stakeholders to Improve the Impact of Veteran Community Reintegration Research - 07-2022
- Features the James A. Haley VA Hospital and Clinics in Tampa, Florida

Reasons Why Women Veterans Leave or Stay in VA Healthcare - 05-2022
- Features the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP) and Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i)

Pain/Opioid CORE Veteran Engagement Panel Brings Veterans' Perspective to HSR&D Research - 03-2022
- Features the Pain/Opioid COnsortium of REsearch (CORE)

Benefits of a Telehealth Approach to Treating Mental Illness among Veterans in Rural Settings - 01-2022
- Features the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i)

Growing Rural Outreach through Veteran Engagement (GROVE) - 12-2021
- Features the Center for Growing Rural Outreach through Veteran Engagement (GROVE)

Examining VA Leadership Support for Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies - 11-2021
- Features the QUERI Center for Evaluating Patient-Centered Care (EPCC-VA)

Engaging Family Supporters to Improve Veterans’ Diabetes Care: The CO-IMPACT Program and Toolkit - 10-2021
- Features the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP)

Veterans' Perspectives on VA's Intensive Primary Care Pilot Program - 09-2021
- Features the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP)

Pain Study Benefits from Veteran Engagement in Developing Recruitment Materials for African American Veterans - 07-2021
- Features the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR)

Veterans' Perspectives on Wellness Guide - 06-2021
- Features the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt)

VOICE Study Partners with Veteran Engagement Panel to Improve Pain Care, Reduce Harms of Opioid Therapy - 05-2021
- Features the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR)

Study Explores Veterans' Willingness to Discuss Firearms Safety in the Primary Care Setting - 04-2021
- Features the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)

Veteran Engagement Board Brings Lived Experience to OUD Treatment Implementation - 03-2021
- Features the Consortium to Disseminate and Understand Implementation of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (CONDUIT)

Holistic Health Promotion Program May Reduce Veterans' Risk for Suicidal Behaviors - 02-2021
- Features the Center for Health Information and Communication (CHIC)

The Importance of Being There for Veterans with Depression - 01-2021
- Features the HSR&D Center of Innovation (COIN)

Veterans Reveal Concerns in Communicating with Physicians about Diabetes - 12-2020

Engaging Veterans with Lived Experience of Homelessness - 11-2020
- Features the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR)

Gender Differences in the Development of Suicidal Behavior - 10-2020
- Features the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)

MOVE!+UP Behavioral Weight Management Program for Veterans with PTSD - 09-2020
- Features the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation

Majority of Women Veterans Feel Welcome at VA - 07-2020
- Features the Women’s Health Research Network (WHRN)

Veterans' Views on Limited Resources: Help Sickest First - 05-2020
- Features the Center for Clinical Management Research (CCMR)

PACT Social Work Staffing Program Evaluated by SERVE QUERI - 04-2020
- Features the Social Work Effectiveness for Rural Veterans Evaluation (SERVE) QUERI

How Engaged Research Improved A Diabetes Self-Management Tool for MyHealtheVet - 03-2020
- Features the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR)

Women's Health VA Stakeholders Discuss "Ideal" Care - 02-2020
- Features the Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT)

Mobile App for Weight Management Designed by and for Veterans with Serious Mental Illness - 01-2020
- Features the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, & Policy (CSHIIP)

Older Formerly Homeless Veterans Living in HUD-VASH Housing - 11-2019
- Features the Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research (CHOIR)

Improving Reproductive Planning Services for Women Veterans: The MyPath Intervention - 10-2019
- Features the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care

Engaging the Veterans' Point of View - 09-2019
- Features the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR)

Photovoice: Improving Post-Deployment Reintegration through Visual Storytelling - 08-2019
- Features the South Central Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (South Central MIRECC); Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)

Partnering with Veterans to Improve Specialty Care Outreach for PTSD - 06-2019
- Features the Virtual Specialty Care (VSC) QUERI

Women Veterans' Experience with Research on Intimate Partner Violence - 05-2019
- Features the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion

How Stranger Harassment of Women Veterans Affects Healthcare - 04-2019
- Features the Women Veterans Healthcare CREATE

Incorporating Veterans' Perspectives into Research - 03-2019
- Features the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care

Making an IMPaCT in our Communities - 02-2019
- Features the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion

Improving Care for Veterans with COPD - 01-2019
- Features the Safety and Quality QUERI

Improving Access to Evidence-Based Non-Pharmacologic Pain Care in VA - 09-2018
- Features the IMPROVE QUERI Center of Innovation

Tailoring VA's Diabetes Prevention Program to Women Veterans' Needs - 07-2018
- Features the EMPOWER QUERI Program

Evaluating National Program to Improve Access to Acute Stroke Services for Veterans - 06-2018
- Features the VA's National TeleStroke Program

Optimizing Function and Independence for VA Inpatients - 05-2018
- Features the Optimizing Function and Independence QUERI and the expansion of the STRIDE program

Peer Support Specialists' Unique Contribution to Veterans' Health - 04-2018
- Features the QUERI for Team-based Behavioral Health