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| GLA:
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System is the largest
most complex healthcare system within the Department
of Veterans Affairs. It is one component of VISN 22,
which is formally called VA Desert Pacific Healthcare
Network offering services to veterans residing in Southern
California and Southern Nevada. GLA consists of three
ambulatory care centers, a tertiary care facility and
10 community based outpatient clinics.... |
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GRECC: The Department of
Veterans Affairs established Geriatric Research Education
and Clinical Centers (GRECC) to improve health care
and quality of life to older veterans through the advancement
and integration of research, education and clinical
achievements in geriatrics and gerontology into the
total VA health care system and broader communities.
GLA has two GRECC units at its West Los Angeles and
Sepulveda campuses. |
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MIRECC:
The Department of Veterans Affairs established the
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers
(MIRECC) program in an effort to improve the long-term
functional outcome of patients with mental illness
through innovative research, clinical care and educational
programs. |
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PADRECC: The Parkinson's Disease Research,
Education and Clinical Center (PADRECC) at GLA is one
of six VA centers nationwide dedicated to providing
exceptional clinical care, education and support for
veterans with Parkinson's disease and other movement
disorders, in addition to ongoing research into the
causes of Parkinson's disease. An internationally recognized
staff of neurologists and neurosurgeons provide treatment
to veteran patients. |
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UCLA School
of Public Health *: The School of Public Health is
a component of the renowned UCLA Center for the Health
Sciences. As part of a world-class research university,
the School shares the same campus at UCLA's College
of Letters and Science, other professional schools,
hospitals and clinics, and has used these proximities
to achieve an extraordinary level of collaboration.
Here, cross disciplinary research initiatives involve
faculty from disciplines spanning the campus. Concurrent
degree programs break down the traditional departmental
barriers in a fully integrated approach to the multi-faceted
issues facing the field.... |
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Health Services Research Center *: Our mission
is to improve health policy, health care, and quality
of life for people with psychiatric and neurologic
disorders. Integrating expertise from the fields
of medicine, public health, public policy and social
science, we focus on issues pertaining to the delivery
and quality of treatment, health care policy and
quality of life. Through our research, the dissemination
of our findings, and in collaboration with community
and academic groups, we strive to increase public
awareness, inform policy decisions, and provide information
and tools for the public, health care practitioners,
and policymakers to use to obtain and create better
health care and better health outcomes. |
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UCLA,
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services
Research *: Investigators in the Division are conducting
a wide range of projects aimed at understanding and
improving health care delivery. Check this page in
the future for more information about past achievements
and ongoing projects.... |
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UCLA,
School of Public Policy and Social Research *: The
School of Public Policy and Social Research was established
in 1994 to set a new direction for policy education,
research and action. The School's distinctive approach
emphasizes solving problems across boundaries, particularly
at the intersection where the public, private, and
non-governmental sectors meet.... |
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RAND
Health *: We are a research division within RAND--the
original think tank--a nonprofit institute that helps
improve policy and decisionmaking through research
and analysis ... |
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Southern
California Evidence-based Practice Center *: The
Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center
is part of the Evidence-Based Practice Program sponsored
by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.... |
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| NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS |
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| VA
HSR&D: Veterans Health Administration is
one of the largest health care providers in the country,
serving millions of veterans every year. Within this
diverse and dynamic health care setting lays rich
research environment. The Health Services Research
and Development Service (HSR&D), one of four
research services within VA's Office of Research
and Development, works to identify and evaluate innovative
strategies that lead to accessible, high quality,
cost effective care for veterans and the nation.... |
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QUERI: VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative
(QUERI), is designed to translate research discoveries
and innovations into better patient care and systems
improvements. QUERI focuses on eight high-risk and/or
highly prevalent diseases or conditions among veterans:
Chronic Heart Failure, Colorectal Cancer, Diabetes,
HIV/AIDS, Ischemic Heart Disease, Mental Health,
Spinal Cord Injury, and Substance Abuse. |
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Management
Decision and Research Center (MDRC): The VA-sponsored
MDRC has launched a research webpage designed as
a resource to researchers who are interested in conducting
management research or including organizational variables
in their clinical research. The webpage provides:
- a conceptual framework for management research,
- a discussion of methodological challenges in conducting management research,
and resources to management researchers including instrument summaries,
ongoing management research projects in VA and references. |
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| AHRQ *:
Under the Evidence-based Practice Program of the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality, 5-year contracts
are awarded to institutions in the United States and
Canada to serve as Evidence-based Practice Centers
(EPCs). The EPCs review all relevant scientific literature
on clinical, behavioral, and organization and financing
topics to produce evidence reports and technology assessments.... |
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