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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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| Measurement
Excellence and Training Resource Information
Center: The Measurement Excellence and Training
Resource Information Center (METRIC) is
the fourth and most recent addition to
the VA Health Services Research & Development
Service. METRIC has been charged with improving
the overall measurement quality in VA research.
Improving measurement means that researchers
can more accurately capture the health,
social and economic condition of the veterans
who use the services of the Veterans Health
Administration. Sound and thorough measurement
methods in VA research result in studies
that produce reliable data. Sound data
enables VA organizations to improve the
quality of care for veterans by making
evidence-based decisions in the form of
clinical, organizational or system-level
modifications. |
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