Health care systems redesign project to improve dysphagia screening

Virginia S Daggett1, Heather Woodward-Hagg, Teresa M Damush

  • 1Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 11 Center for Applied Systems Engineering (VA-CASE) (Drs Daggett and Woodward-Hagg), Department of Veterans Affairs Research & Development (R&D) Service (Dr Daggett), Department of Veterans Affairs Systems Redesign Service (Dr Woodward-Hagg), and Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) (Center for Health Information and Communication) (Drs Damush, Williams, and Bravata and Ms Plue and Mr Russell), Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana; Department of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics (Dr Damush), Department of Neurology (Drs Williams and Bravata), and Department of Internal Medicine (Dr Bravata), Indiana University School of Medicine; VA HSR&D Stroke Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), Indianapolis, Indiana (Drs Damush, Williams, and Bravata); Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Indianapolis, Indiana (Dr Damush); Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana (Drs Damush, Williams, and Bravata); Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Informatics and Analytics, Analytics and Business Intelligence, Washington, DC (Mr Allen); and Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (Dr Chumbler).

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