The implementation of a pain navigator program in the department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) health care systems: a cluster randomized pragmatic clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This manuscript describes the uptake of the AIM-Back Pain Navigator Pathway (PNP) designed to encourage use of non-pharmacologic care options within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).

Design

This manuscript describes the implementation of a telehealth intervention from one arm of a multisite, embedded, cluster-randomized pragmatic trial comparing the effectiveness of two novel clinical care pathways that provide access to non-pharmacologic care for Veterans with low back pain (LBP).

Setting

Ten VHA clinics.

Subjects

19 pain navigators, >200 primary care physicians, and over 1000 Veterans were involved in the PNP implementation.

Methods

Data were generated within the VHA electronic health record (EHR) for the ongoing AIM-Back trial to des

SUBMITTER: France C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11548858 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature