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Last published 2025
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Karen L. Drummond

Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: General Mills (United States) (2008); Providence VA Medical Center (2022); Health Services Research & Development (2013); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2013–2025); Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (2020); Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (2022); Department of Veterans Affairs (2023); John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital (2020)

Faculty Researcher

15 h-index 39 pubs 867 cited

  • Humans
  • United States
  • Veterans
  • United States Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Female
  • Primary Health Care
  • Male
  • Qualitative Research
  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Telemedicine
  • Mental Health Services
  • Implementation Science
  • Adult
  • Social Stigma
  • Physician-Patient Relations

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Karen L. Drummond's research focuses on the implementation of evidence-based practices within healthcare settings, particularly in mental health and primary care. Her work investigates factors influencing the adoption and effectiveness of collaborative care models and other interventions, often utilizing qualitative and mixed-methods approaches. She has published on developing data analysis frameworks, such as codebooks informed by the i-PARIHS framework, and on strategies to increase consumer engagement in quality improvement efforts. Drummond's recent publications also explore clinician perspectives on implementing evidence-based psychotherapies in Veterans Health Administration clinics and the impact of automated alerts on genetic counseling referrals.

Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 15 and 821 total citations across 39 publications. Drummond has collaborated extensively with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Sara J. Landes, JoAnn E. Kirchner, and Rajinder Sonia Singh, with whom she shares multiple publications. Her recent activity indicates continued engagement in research.

Metrics

  • h-index: 15
  • Publications: 39
  • Citations: 867

Selected Publications

  • Use of implementation science to qualitatively identify implementation determinants of COPD practice guidelines in primary care (2025)
    Chronic Respiratory Disease 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Veterans’ Experiences of and Preferences for Patient-Centered, Measurement-Based PTSD Care (2024)
    Medical Care 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts (2023)
    Frontiers in Health Services 31 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Interdisciplinary behavioral health provider perceptions of implementing the Collaborative Chronic Care Model: an i-PARIHS-guided qualitative study (2023)
    Implementation Science Communications 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework (2022)
    Implementation Science Communications 52 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Qualitative Exploration of Primary Care Practitioner Views About Training to Treat Opioid Use Disorder (2022)
    SSRN Electronic Journal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Time–motion analysis of external facilitation for implementing the Collaborative Chronic Care Model in general mental health clinics: Use of an interval-based data collection approach (2022)
    Implementation Research and Practice 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Can Automated Alerts in the Electronic Health Record Encourage Referrals for Genetic Counseling and Testing Among Patients at High Risk for Hereditary Cancer Syndromes? (2022)
    JCO Oncology Practice 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Determining feasibility of incorporating consumer engagement into implementation activities: study protocol of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type II pilot (2022)
    BMJ Open 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Mental health clinician perspectives regarding factors impacting implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies in Veterans Health Administration community-based outpatient clinics (2022)
    General Hospital Psychiatry 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Collaborative chronic care model implementation within outpatient behavioral health care teams: qualitative results from a multisite trial using implementation facilitation (2021)
    Implementation Science Communications 21 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Factors affecting the implementation of evidence-based Progressive Tinnitus Management in Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (2020)
    PLoS ONE 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Drinking as routine practice among re-integrating National Guard and Reservists from Arkansas (2020)
    Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Method for Developing Trustworthiness and Preserving Richness of Qualitative Data During Team-Based Analysis of Large Data Sets (2020)
    American Journal of Evaluation 85 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Targeting stigma of mental illness among primary care providers: Findings from a pilot feasibility study (2019)
    Psychiatry Research 35 citations DOI OpenAlex

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