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All of the demonstrations worked with practice guidelines that were established collaboratively by the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense (DoD) purchase levaquin 500mg free shipping. In the first demonstration, four MTFs in the Great Plains Region im- plemented the practice guideline for low back pain. The asthma guideline was implemented by four MTFs in the Southeast Region, and the diabetes guideline was implemented by two MTFs in the Western Region. RAND performed evaluations for each demonstration that included a process evaluation and an analysis of effects on service delivery. Specific components of this work included the following: • Process evaluation documented the implementation activities of participating MTFs, described their successes in changing clini- cal practices, identified successes and challenges reported by the 1 2 Evaluation of the Low Back Pain Practice Guideline Implementation sites, and obtained their feedback regarding U. This report presents the results from our evaluation of the imple- mentation of the low back pain guideline in the Great Plains Region demonstration. These findings build on and extend the results of our process evaluation of the first three months of activity for the low back pain demonstration. Chapter Three reports the benchmarking of baseline performance of the nine MTFs in the study on each of the six measures (see Table 3. Results of the pro- cess evaluation are reported in Chapters Four and Five, and results of the evaluation of guideline effects are presented in Chapter Six. Fi- nally, in Chapter Seven we synthesize the results of the full evalua- tion and identify lessons learned, issues to be addressed, and impli- cations for systemwide guideline implementation strategies. Introduction 3 THE DoD/VA GUIDELINE ADAPTATION PROCESS DoD and the VA initiated a collaborative project in early 1998 to es- tablish a single standard of care in the military and VA health sys- tems. This project is led by a working group consisting of two repre- sentatives from each of the three military services and the VA.