6 results match your criteria: "Headache Centers of Excellence (HCoE) Research & Evaluation Center[Affiliation]"
Comparison of clinical pharmacist practitioners' headache care roles across clinical contexts within the Veterans Health Administration: Optimizing pharmacist integration.
Headache
September 2024
Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration Headache Centers of Excellence (HCoE), Orange, Connecticut, USA.
Background: Studies show interdisciplinary treatment is highly effective for addressing chronic pain syndromes, including headache disorders. Increasingly, advanced practice pharmacists work collaboratively with physicians to apply their unique skills to enhance patient outcomes.
Objective: This qualitative study aimed to elucidate the potential in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for increased roles of clinical pharmacist practitioners (CPPs)-advanced practice pharmacists with a scope of practice-in collaborative, interdisciplinary headache care teams.
Headache Specialists' Perceptions of the Role of Health Psychologists in Headache Management: A Qualitative Study.
Cureus
March 2024
Headache Centers of Excellence (HCoE) Research & Evaluation Center, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Orange, USA.
Background Since headache specialists cannot treat all the patients with headache disorders, multidisciplinary teams that include health psychologists are becoming more prevalent. Health psychologists mainly use a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), along with biofeedback on occasion, to effectively address patients' pain and headache disorders. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is one setting that routinely includes a health psychologist with advanced training in pain disorders in their pain care to its veterans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCharacteristics and Gender Differences of Headache in the Veterans Health Administration: A National Cohort Study, Fiscal Year 2008-2019.
Neurology
October 2022
From the Neurology Service (J.J.S., E.A.D.S.), Clinical Epidemiology Research Center (CERC) (J.J.S.), Pain Research (J.J.S., M.S., N.L., A.K., H.L., B.T.F.), Informatics, and Multi-morbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven; Departments of Neurology (J.J.S., N.L., A.K., H.L., E.A.D.S.), Internal Medicine (J.J.S.), Center for Neuroepidemiological and Clinical Neurological Research (J.J.S., E.A.D.S.), Yale Center for Analytic Sciences (K.W.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Veterans Health Administration Headache Centers of Excellence (HCoE) Research and Evaluation Center (J.J.S., E.K.S., K.W., M.S., E.A.D.S., J.P.N., N.L., A.K., H.L., A.S.G., D.K., B.T.F.), Department of Veterans Affairs, Orange, CT; Yeshiva University (E.K.S.), New York City, NY; Neurology Service (J.P.N.), Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital Bedford, MA; Department of Neurology (J.P.N.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Westport Headache Institute (D.K.), Westport, CT; Albany Stratton VA Medical Center (D.S.H.), NY; Department of Neurology (G.G.), George Washington University, Washington, DC; Department of Neurology (G.G.), University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Specialty Care Services (G.G.), Veterans Health Administration Pain Management (F.S.), Opioid Safety and PDMP Program, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC; Departments of Neurology (F.S.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (J.S.), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Neurology (R.E.S.), University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT; Department of Neurology (R.B.L.), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; and Department of Neurology (R.B.L.), Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Background And Objectives: To determine gender differences in headache types diagnosed, sociodemographic characteristics, military campaign and exposures, and health care utilization among US veterans in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
Methods: This study used a retrospective cohort design to examine VHA electronic health record (EHR) data. This cohort includes veterans who had at least 1 visit for any headache between fiscal years 2008 and 2019.
Headache Diary Mobile Application for Monitoring and Characterizing Posttraumatic Headaches.
J Head Trauma Rehabil
June 2022
Polytrauma Network Site and Headache Center of Excellence (Ms Madrigal and Dr Timmerman), Polytrauma System of Care and Rehabilitation Services (Dr Chung), Polytrauma Network Site (Dr Broffman), and Rehabilitation Service (Dr Adamson), VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California (Mr Liu, Dr Harris, and Mss Bennett and Tsai); Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, California (Mr Liu); University of Washington, Seattle (Ms Bennett); University of California Santa Barbara (Ms Tsai); and Department of Neurosurgery (Dr Harris) and Orthopaedic Surgery & Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Dr Timmerman), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California (Dr Adamson).
Objective: This study analyzed the data collected using a headache diary mobile application to characterize posttraumatic headaches (PTHs) in a sample of US veterans. Specifically, we measured patient engagement with the mobile application and compared our findings with previous literature regarding PTHs.
Setting: A Headache Center of Excellence (HCoE) in a Veterans Health Administration facility.
Complementary and integrative medicine perspectives among veteran patients and VHA healthcare providers for the treatment of headache disorders: a qualitative study.
BMC Complement Med Ther
January 2022
Veterans Health Administration Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Center for Health Information and Communication (CHIC) and Quality Enhancement Research Initiative Expanding expertise Through E-health Network Development (EXTEND) QUERI) Centers, Roudebush VAMC Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Objective: To evaluate veteran patient and provider perceptions and preferences on complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) for headache management.
Background: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has spearheaded a Whole Health system of care focusing on CIM-based care for veteran patients. Less is known about patients' and providers' CIM perceptions and preferences for chronic headache management.
The Primary Care Management of Headache: Synopsis of the 2020 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guideline.
Mil Med
August 2022
Quality and Patient Safety, Office of Evidence Based Practice, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, New Braunfels, TX 78132, USA.
Introduction: In June of 2020, the U.S. DVA and DoD approved a new joint clinical practice guideline for assessing and managing patients with headache.
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