JGIM: Quality Improvement and Implementation Science in Health Care Systems: Top Rated QIS/IS Articles from 2024-2025

This special JGIM Webinar presentation featuring the 3 top-rated QIS/IS articles of the past year, with an introduction by the Co-Editor-in Chief of JGIM and panel discussion led by the Director of the Im_Sci Lab at Columbia University, co-sponsors of this webinar with JGIM and SGIM.

• Decision Support and Behavioral Health for Reducing High-Dose Opiods in Comorbid Chronic Pain, Depression and Anxiety: Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial (Eboni Price-Haywood, et al)

• Impact of Evidence-Based Quality Improvement on Tailoring VA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Model to Women Veteran’s Needs (Elizabeth Yano, et al)

• Factors Affecting Post-trial Sustainment or De-implementation of Study Interventions: A Narrative Review (Terren Green, et al)

These three studies, spanning QIS and IS, highlight the work that is much needed to improve the delivery of health care and the translation of evidence-based medicine into general medicine practice.