Engaging Stakeholders in Identifying Access Research Priorities for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Veterans Access Research Consortium (VARC), a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Consortium of Research focused on access to healthcare, has been funded by VA's Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D) to develop a research roadmap for healthcare access. The goal of the roadmap is to identify operationally aligned research questions that are most likely to lead to meaningful improvements in Veterans' healthcare access.

Objectives

To describe the process of soliciting diverse stakeholder perspectives about key priorities on which VA's HSR&D access agenda should focus and identify the results of that process.

Methods

We used a modified Delphi approach to engage researchers and VA operational partners in a process to develop recommendation

SUBMITTER: McNeal DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8993958 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature