Benjamin Kligler
Biographic Data
| ID | 241926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Kligler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kligler |
| SIGNATURE | KLIGLER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6053-2602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adding Self-Care Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Therapies to Care for Chronic Pain–The Assessing Pain, Patient Reported Outcomes and Complementary Health (APPROACH) Study
BACKGROUND: Health care systems and insurers are expanding coverage for practitioner-delivered and self-care complementary and integrative health (CIH) therapies for chronic pain. OBJECTIVES: To determine if combining practitioner-delivered and self-care CIH therapies (PD/SC-CIH) improves pain outcomes more than practitioner-delivered CIH (PD-CIH) therapies alone. RESEARCH DESIGN: Pragmatic nonrandomized trial. Structural nudges and the availabil…
Measuring What Matters Most: Considering the Well-Being of the Whole Person in Health Care
Traditionally, the US health care system has focused on improving disease outcomes for individuals and populations. Yet more recently, we have become aware that the absence of disease or disease-state symptoms does not always translate into benefits for individuals’ broader lives. Thus, a shift is occurring where the relevant outcome is the extent to which the health care system improves individuals’ Whole Health, well-being, and functioning in t…
Using Well-Being Measurements to Enhance Clinical Practice: Why and How to Ask Patients About Their Broader Well-Being
In recent years, there has been a growing call for healthcare providers to expand their primary focus beyond treating disease to addressing the needs of the “whole person.”1,2 This shift has been driven in part by growing awareness of the substantial impact that patients’ broader well-being—including the extent to which they are thriving in their everyday roles and activities—has on both health and healthcare outcomes.3 Yet, healthcare providers …
Measuring the Well-Being of the Whole Person in Clinical Care, Health Research, and Population Health Evaluation: Findings and Recommendations From the XVIII Veterans Health Administration State of th…
OBJECTIVES: In 2023, the U.S. Veterans Health Administration convened a State of the Art meeting to evaluate the existing evidence and make recommendations for measuring the well-being of the whole person in clinical care, health research, and population health evaluation. In this article, we describe findings and recommendations concerning each of these health care system functions, as well as key takeaways from the meeting as a whole. BACKGROUN…
The Whole Health Transformation at the Veterans Health Administration: Moving From “What’s the Matter With You?” to “What Matters to You?”
The Veterans Health Administration is undergoing a system-wide transformation to a Whole Person/Whole Health approach to care. The Whole Health model of care is described including early outcome data on utilization and effectiveness. The paper describes the first 10 years of this transformation and provides lessons learned during that process regarding large-scale system change
Does Offering Battlefield Acupuncture Lead to Subsequent Use of Traditional Acupuncture
OBJECTIVES: Veterans Health Administration encourages auricular acupuncture (Battlefield Acupuncture/BFA) as a nonpharmacologic approach to pain management. Qualitative reports highlighted a "gateway hypothesis": providing BFA can lead to additional nonpharmacologic treatments. This analysis examines subsequent use of traditional acupuncture. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cohort study of Veterans treated with BFA and a propensity score matched comparison grou…
Innovations in Care: Complementary and Integrative Health in the Veterans Health Administration Whole Health System
VA National Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, Washington, DC The authors declare no conflict of interest. Correspondence to: Alison M. Whitehead, MPH, VA National Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, 810 Vermont Avenue NW (10NE), Washington, DC 20420. E-mail: [email protected]
Patient Feedback on the Effectiveness of Auricular Acupuncture on Pain in Routine Clinical Care: The Experience of 11,406 Veterans
OBJECTIVES: Veterans Health Administration (VHA) launched a national initiative to train providers in a specific, protocolized auricular acupuncture treatment (also called Battlefield Acupuncture or BFA) as a nonpharmacological approach to pain management. This evaluation assessed the real-world effectiveness of BFA on immediate pain relief and identified subgroups of patients for whom BFA is most effective. RESEARCH DESIGN: In a cross-sectional …
Transforming the Veterans Affairs to a Whole Health System of Care: Time for Action and Research
Bokhour, Barbara G. PhD; Haun, Jolie N. PhD; Hyde, Justeen PhD; Charns, Martin DBA; Kligler, Benjamin MD, MPHAuthor Information
Provider Perspectives of Battlefield Acupuncture: Advantages, Disadvantages and Its Potential Role in Reducing Opioid Use for Pain
OBJECTIVES: Nonpharmacological options to treat pain are in demand, in part to address the opioid crisis. One such option is acupuncture. Battlefield acupuncture (BFA) is an auricular needling protocol currently used to treat pain in the Veterans Health Administration. We aimed to identify the advantages and disadvantages of BFA from providers' perspectives. METHODS: We rely on an inductive qualitative approach to explore provider perceptions thr…
Integrating Acupuncture in an Inpatient Setting
Acupuncture, a licensed health care profession in the United States, is poorly integrated into the American health care system, despite the evidence of its effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to offer a phenomenological description of the experience of acupuncturists who delivered acupuncture care in a tertiary teaching hospital in New York City. We analyzed data using methodology proposed by Colaizzi and identified four major clusters o…
Integrating Acupuncture in an Inpatient Setting
Acupuncture, a licensed health care profession in the United States, is poorly integrated into the American health care system, despite the evidence of its effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to offer a phenomenological description of the experience of acupuncturists who delivered acupuncture care in a tertiary teaching hospital in New York City. We analyzed data using methodology proposed by Colaizzi and identified four major clusters o…
Integrating Acupuncture in an Inpatient Setting
Acupuncture, a licensed health care profession in the United States, is poorly integrated into the American health care system, despite the evidence of its effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to offer a phenomenological description of the experience of acupuncturists who delivered acupuncture care in a tertiary teaching hospital in New York City. We analyzed data using methodology proposed by Colaizzi and identified four major clusters o…
Does Offering Battlefield Acupuncture Lead to Subsequent Use of Traditional Acupuncture
OBJECTIVES: Veterans Health Administration encourages auricular acupuncture (Battlefield Acupuncture/BFA) as a nonpharmacologic approach to pain management. Qualitative reports highlighted a "gateway hypothesis": providing BFA can lead to additional nonpharmacologic treatments. This analysis examines subsequent use of traditional acupuncture. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cohort study of Veterans treated with BFA and a propensity score matched comparison grou…
Innovations in Care: Complementary and Integrative Health in the Veterans Health Administration Whole Health System
VA National Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, Washington, DC The authors declare no conflict of interest. Correspondence to: Alison M. Whitehead, MPH, VA National Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, 810 Vermont Avenue NW (10NE), Washington, DC 20420. E-mail: [email protected]
Patient Feedback on the Effectiveness of Auricular Acupuncture on Pain in Routine Clinical Care: The Experience of 11,406 Veterans
OBJECTIVES: Veterans Health Administration (VHA) launched a national initiative to train providers in a specific, protocolized auricular acupuncture treatment (also called Battlefield Acupuncture or BFA) as a nonpharmacological approach to pain management. This evaluation assessed the real-world effectiveness of BFA on immediate pain relief and identified subgroups of patients for whom BFA is most effective. RESEARCH DESIGN: In a cross-sectional …
Transforming the Veterans Affairs to a Whole Health System of Care: Time for Action and Research
Bokhour, Barbara G. PhD; Haun, Jolie N. PhD; Hyde, Justeen PhD; Charns, Martin DBA; Kligler, Benjamin MD, MPHAuthor Information
Provider Perspectives of Battlefield Acupuncture: Advantages, Disadvantages and Its Potential Role in Reducing Opioid Use for Pain
OBJECTIVES: Nonpharmacological options to treat pain are in demand, in part to address the opioid crisis. One such option is acupuncture. Battlefield acupuncture (BFA) is an auricular needling protocol currently used to treat pain in the Veterans Health Administration. We aimed to identify the advantages and disadvantages of BFA from providers' perspectives. METHODS: We rely on an inductive qualitative approach to explore provider perceptions thr…
The Whole Health Transformation at the Veterans Health Administration: Moving From “What’s the Matter With You?” to “What Matters to You?”
The Veterans Health Administration is undergoing a system-wide transformation to a Whole Person/Whole Health approach to care. The Whole Health model of care is described including early outcome data on utilization and effectiveness. The paper describes the first 10 years of this transformation and provides lessons learned during that process regarding large-scale system change
Measuring What Matters Most: Considering the Well-Being of the Whole Person in Health Care
Traditionally, the US health care system has focused on improving disease outcomes for individuals and populations. Yet more recently, we have become aware that the absence of disease or disease-state symptoms does not always translate into benefits for individuals’ broader lives. Thus, a shift is occurring where the relevant outcome is the extent to which the health care system improves individuals’ Whole Health, well-being, and functioning in t…
Using Well-Being Measurements to Enhance Clinical Practice: Why and How to Ask Patients About Their Broader Well-Being
In recent years, there has been a growing call for healthcare providers to expand their primary focus beyond treating disease to addressing the needs of the “whole person.”1,2 This shift has been driven in part by growing awareness of the substantial impact that patients’ broader well-being—including the extent to which they are thriving in their everyday roles and activities—has on both health and healthcare outcomes.3 Yet, healthcare providers …
Measuring the Well-Being of the Whole Person in Clinical Care, Health Research, and Population Health Evaluation: Findings and Recommendations From the XVIII Veterans Health Administration State of th…
OBJECTIVES: In 2023, the U.S. Veterans Health Administration convened a State of the Art meeting to evaluate the existing evidence and make recommendations for measuring the well-being of the whole person in clinical care, health research, and population health evaluation. In this article, we describe findings and recommendations concerning each of these health care system functions, as well as key takeaways from the meeting as a whole. BACKGROUN…
Adding Self-Care Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) Therapies to Care for Chronic Pain–The Assessing Pain, Patient Reported Outcomes and Complementary Health (APPROACH) Study
BACKGROUND: Health care systems and insurers are expanding coverage for practitioner-delivered and self-care complementary and integrative health (CIH) therapies for chronic pain. OBJECTIVES: To determine if combining practitioner-delivered and self-care CIH therapies (PD/SC-CIH) improves pain outcomes more than practitioner-delivered CIH (PD-CIH) therapies alone. RESEARCH DESIGN: Pragmatic nonrandomized trial. Structural nudges and the availabil…
Medicine (8 works) · Health care (7 works) · MEDLINE (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Alternative medicine (5 works) · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (5 works) · Acupuncture (4 works) · Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies (4 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (4 works) · Physical therapy (3 works)