Outreach to facilitate return to VA care for veterans with serious mental illness: A mixed-methods evaluation of best practices.

Outreach to people with serious mental illness who are disengaged from treatment can facilitate return to care. However, little is known regarding what outreach strategies are effective. This mixed-methods evaluation assessed best practices for conducting outreach to Veterans with serious mental illness via the national Veterans Health Administration Re-Engaging Veterans with Serious Mental Illness program by comparing the strategies used by high-performing sites and low-performing sites.

Access to timely mental health care treatment initiation among Veterans Health Administration patients with and without serious mental illness.

Timely care initiation is a priority within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Patients with serious mental illnesses (SMI) are a group that benefits from timely care initiation due to elevated risks of negative outcomes with delayed care. However, no evaluation has assessed whether VHA SMI patients disproportionately experience delays in mental health care initiation.

A defect in the PINOID serine/threonine kinase affects leaf shape in cucumber.

Leaf shape has important implications for optimizing plant architecture for grain crops and horticultural crops. Examination of the cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) round leaf (rl) mutant by Song et al.

Enhancing Treatment Reengagement for Veterans With Serious Mental Illness: Evaluating the Effectiveness of SMI Re-Engage.

Objective: This evaluation assessed the effectiveness of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) program Reengaging Veterans With Serious Mental Illness in Treatment (SMI Re-Engage). The program serves veterans with serious mental illness who experience extended gaps in use of VHA care.

Methods: Propensity score-weighted survival analysis that adjusted for demographic, clinical, and utilization factors assessed whether being contacted via SMI Re-Engage predicted return to VHA care within 18 months of when clinicians received patient contact information and, among veterans contacted, whether return to VHA care was associated with mortality risk within the 18-month follow-up period.

Primary Care-Mental Health Integration in the Veterans Affairs Health System: Program Characteristics and Performance.

Objectives: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has achieved substantial national implementation of primary care-mental health integration (PC-MHI) services. However, little is known regarding program characteristics, variation in characteristics across settings, or associations between program fidelity and performance. This study identified core elements of PC-MHI services and evaluated their associations with program characteristics and performance.