7 results match your criteria: "Veterans Health Administration Headache Centers of Excellence[Affiliation]"
Engaging Patients with Headache in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA): ACTIvated Veterans Engagement Group (ACTIVE) to Improve Delivery of Patient-Centered Headache Services.
J Patient Exp
January 2025
Veterans Health Administration Headache Centers of Excellence, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Orange, CT, USA.
In 2018, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) established the original 19 Headache Centers of Excellence (HCoE) program, and an evaluation center. This study utilized a Veteran engagement group method to elicit input from Veteran patients living with chronic headache on daily needs, social determinants of health, and preferences and suggestions for headache programs, services, and research priorities. Four engagement groups were conducted between July 13 and August 22 of 2022 with Veterans who experience headache and received care at a VHA HCoE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComparison 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.
Understanding the links between airborne hazards and headache disorders.
Headache
December 2023
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, New York, USA.
Migraine screening in English and Spanish.
Headache
July 2023
Ferkauf School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, USA.
Understanding headache classification coding within the veterans health administration using ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM in fiscal years 2014-2017.
PLoS One
January 2023
Veterans Health Administration Headache Centers of Excellence Research and Evaluation Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, United States of America.
Objectives: Understand the continuity and changes in headache not-otherwise-specified (NOS), migraine, and post-traumatic headache (PTH) diagnoses after the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
Background: Headache is one of the most commonly diagnosed chronic conditions managed within primary and specialty care clinics. The VHA transitioned from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM on October-1-2015.
Behavioral Health, Telemedicine, and Opportunities for Improving Access.
Curr Pain Headache Rep
December 2022
VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA.
Purpose Of Review: The purpose of this review is to summarize advances in behavioral treatments for pain and headache disorders, as well as recent innovations in telemedicine for behavioral treatments.
Recent Findings: Research for behavioral treatments continues to support their use as part of a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensive management for pain and headache conditions. Behavioral treatments incorporate both behavioral change and cognitive interventions and have been shown to improve outcomes beyond that of medical management alone.
Characteristics 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.