Mission

QUERI was launched in 1998 as part of a system-wide transformation aimed at improving the quality of healthcare for Veterans. Our mission is to improve care using research evidence to improve clinical practice.

Centers

The QUERI centers focus on 10 high-risk and/or highly prevalent diseases or conditions among veterans.

• Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) QUERI
• Diabetes QUERI
• eHealth QUERI
• HIV/Hepatitis QUERI
• Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) QUERI
• Mental Health (MH) QUERI
• Polytrauma and Blast-Related Injuries (PT/BRI) QUERI
• Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) QUERI
• Stroke QUERI
• Substance Use Disorders (SUD) QUERI

QUERI Resource Center: Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support (CIPRS)

Contact

QUERI Program
Linda McIvor, MHS, MS
QUERI Program Manager
Health Services Research and Development Service
E-mail: Linda.McIvor@va.gov
Tel: (202) 443-5740

CIPRS
Deborah Jenkins
E-mail: Deborah.Jenkins@va.gov
Tel: (818) 895-5828 (main CIPRS number)

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Center Highlight

Improving Heart Failure Care for Veterans
Heart failure currently affects nearly five million Americans, and hospital admissions for this condition have increased six-fold in the United States since 1970, due, in part, to an aging population...Read more

Announcements

• Call for Applications: Dissemination & Implementation Training Institute (Application deadline: February 22, 2013)
• TBI Utilization Reports - Conducted by Polytrauma and Blast Related Injuries QUERI to describe the prevalence, comorbidities, health service utilization and associated costs among Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans with TBI
• Health Information Technology Approaches in QUERI Implementation Research: Case Study Evaluation
• NIMH/VA Implementation Research Institute Invites Applications for Two-Year Training Program - The Implementation Research Institute invites applications from investigators who wish to conduct ground-breaking research in the area of implementation science.

Funding

* All files are in PDF format.

• Instructions for Submission of Service Directed Project Concept Papers
• QUERI ITS instructions for ART

QUERI RFAs

The following RFAs are available on the intranet only. If you have intranet access, go to http://vaww.research.va.gov/funding/rfa.cfm to view the documents.

• QUERI Service Directed Project (SDP) Merit Review Award
• QUERI Rapid Response Project (RRP) Proposals for Existing QUERI Focus Areas
• QUERI Rapid Response Project (RRP) Proposals for Partnered Research (Outside of QUERI Focus Areas)

Past Cyberseminar Sessions

• QUERI Implementation Seminar
• QUERI Practice Seminar
• QUERI Implementation Research
• Enhancing Implementation Science