Sara J Landes, Bridget B Matarazzo, Jeffery A Pitcock, Karen L Drummond, Brandy N Smith, JoAnn E Kirchner, Kaily A Clark, Georgia R Gerard, Molly C Jankovsky, Lisa A Brenner, Mark A Reger, Aaron E Eagan, Rebecca Raciborski, Jacob Painter, James C Townsend, Susan M Jegley, Rajinder Sonia Singh, Jodie A Trafton, John F McCarthy, Ira R Katz
OBJECTIVE: In 2017, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) implemented a national suicide prevention program, called Recovery Engagement and Coordination for Health-Veterans Enhanced Treatment (REACH VET), that uses a predictive algorithm to identify, attempt to reach, assess, and care for patients at the highest risk for suicide. The authors aimed to evaluate whether facilitation enhanced implementation of REACH VET at VHA facilities not meeting target completion rates. METHODS: In this hybrid effectiveness-implementation type 2 program evaluation, a quasi-experimental pre-post design was used to assess changes in implementation outcome measures evaluated 6 months before and 6 months after onset of facilitation of REACH VET implementation at 23 VHA facilities...
March 6, 2024: Psychiatric Services: a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association