Accelerating Generation and Impacts of Research Evidence to Improve Women Veterans' Health and Health Care

Abstract: Women Veterans who use the VA also often have complex care needs, given physical and mental health comorbidities that complicate routine care management, and may require supportive care coordination across specialists within and outside the VA. For example, as research illuminated that women Veterans' suicide rates were nearly double that of non-Veteran civilian women, WHRN developed an ad hoc work group that through collaborative research development (conference, strategic planning work group calls, methods consults) yielded eight studies in just over 2 years.