Karleen F Giannitrapani
Biographic Data
| ID | 5537100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karleen F Giannitrapani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karleen F |
| FAMILY NAME | Giannitrapani |
| SIGNATURE | GIANNITRAPANI K F |
| AFFILIATIONS | VA Palo Alto Health Care System |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0987-6204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Integrating Patient and Expert Perspectives to Conceptualize High-Quality Palliative Cancer Care for Symptoms in the US Veterans Health Administration
Quality measurement is typically the domain of clinical experts and health system leaders; patient/caregiver perspectives are rarely solicited. We aimed to describe and integrate clinician and patient/caregiver conceptualizations of high-quality palliative symptom care for patients receiving care for advanced cancer within the US Veterans Health Administration in the context of existing quality measures. We conducted a secondary qualitative analy…
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…
Patient Feedback on the Effectiveness of Auricular Acupuncture on Pain in Routine Clinical Care
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 …
Provider Perspectives of Battlefield Acupuncture
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…
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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…
Patient Feedback on the Effectiveness of Auricular Acupuncture on Pain in Routine Clinical Care
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 …
Provider Perspectives of Battlefield Acupuncture
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 Patient and Expert Perspectives to Conceptualize High-Quality Palliative Cancer Care for Symptoms in the US Veterans Health Administration
Quality measurement is typically the domain of clinical experts and health system leaders; patient/caregiver perspectives are rarely solicited. We aimed to describe and integrate clinician and patient/caregiver conceptualizations of high-quality palliative symptom care for patients receiving care for advanced cancer within the US Veterans Health Administration in the context of existing quality measures. We conducted a secondary qualitative analy…
Medicine (4 works) · Acupuncture (3 works) · Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies (3 works) · Alternative medicine (3 works) · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Battlefield (2 works) · Cohort (2 works) · Internal Medicine (2 works) · Internal Medicine (2 works)