NHMRC initiatives to improve access to research outputs and findings

Research Wranglers: Initiatives to Improve Reproducibility of Study Findings

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics

Initiatives to improve access to behavioral health services in the Veterans Affairs Health System.

In response to veterans' needs in the context of recent deployments, the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system has increased the number of its facilities and caregivers and has pioneered changes in policy and programs. We review significant recent initiatives to improve access to behavioral health services in the VA health system.

Evaluation of supply-side initiatives to improve access to coronary bypass surgery

BACKGROUND Guided by the evidence that delaying coronary revascularization may lead to symptom worsening and poorer clinical outcomes, expansion in cardiac surgery capacity has been recommended in Canada. Provincial governments started providing one-time and recurring increases in budgets for additional open heart surgeries to reduce waiting times. We sought to determine whether the year of dec...

Comparison of implementation success across three national initiatives to improve veterans' access to specialty care

Methods The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) was used as the basis for defining potential factors affecting implementation success and guided data collection and analysis. For each of the initiatives, a sample of facilities was selected to maximize variability in implementation success, defined uniquely for each initiative. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with...