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We are researchers, methodologists, statisticians and consultants for study conceptualization and design, statistical analysis, and dissemination of findings. Our professional background includes biostatistics, epidemiology, quantitative psychology, health services research and demography. Our PhD- and master’s-level methodologists have study design, data source and statistical analysis expertise in areas including cluster randomized trials, causal inference, and simulation modeling.
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Faculty Position
  • Asche, Stephen E., MA, Senior Research Investigator and Statistician
  • Chrenka, Ella A., Manager of Statistical Services and Biostatistician 2019 -
  • Crain, Lauren, PhD, Senior Research Investigator and Statistician
  • Gustafson, Sally K., MS, Biostatistician
  • Haapala, Jacob L., MPH, Senior Biostatistician
  • Knowlton, Gregory S., MS, Biostatistician
  • Vazquez-Benitez, Gabriela, PhD, MS, Director, Research Methodology Group
    • Publications While At HealthPartners
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • Acupuncture treatment for chronic post-traumatic headache in individuals with mild traumatic brain injury: a pilot study. 
    Journal of Neurotrauma. 2025
  • Barriers to dental providers' use of a clinical decision support tool for pain management following tooth extractions. 
    Implement Res Pract. 2025
  • Better together? Reducing vancomycin use and acute kidney injury with a blended AUC and trough-based dosing guideline. 
    Pharmacotherapy. 2025
  • COVID-19 and completion of select routine childhood vaccinations. 
    Pediatrics. 2025
  • Cardiometabolic risk in pediatric patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2025
  • Clinical decision support and cardiometabolic medication adherence: a randomized clinical trial. 
    JAMA network open. 2025
  • Clinical decision support to improve primary care obesity management in adults with diabetes: clinic-randomized study design. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2025
  • Damage control surgery in the era of globalization of health care - military and international outcomes: a systematic review. 
    Journal of Surgical Research. 2025
  • Distinguishing prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies from prodromal Alzheimer disease: a longitudinal study. 
    Neurology. Clinical practice. 2025
  • Impact of pharmacist preparation of four-factor prothrombin complex concentrate at the bedside in patients with life-threatening hemorrhage in the emergency department. 
    Hospital Pharmacy. 2025
  • Methods to adjust for confounding in test-negative design COVID-19 effectiveness studies: simulation study. 
    JMIR formative research. 2025
  • Pregnant persons perceptions and uptake of prenatal RSV vaccine - Minnesota, 2023-2024. 
    Vaccine. 2025
  • Validation of lactational mastitis diagnosis codes in electronic health care data. 
    Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.). 2025
  • "I'm torn": qualitative analysis of dental practitioner-perceived barriers, facilitators, and solutions to HPV vaccine promotion. 
    Healthcare. 2024
  • 18 Years - VISION and IVY Networks, September 2023-January 2024. 
    MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2024
  • A CKD clinical decision support system: a cluster randomized clinical trial in primary care clinics. 
    Kidney Med. 2024
  • An electronic teen questionnaire, the eTeenQ, for risk behavior screening during adolescent well visits in an integrated health system: development and pilot implementation. 
    JMIR pediatrics and parenting. 2024
  • Applying meaning and self-determination theory to the development of a web-based mHealth physical activity intervention: proof-of-concept pilot study. 
    JMIR formative research. 2024
  • Attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines among pregnant and recently pregnant individuals. 
    JAMA network open. 2024
  • COVID-19 vaccination in the first trimester and major structural birth defects among live births. 
    JAMA pediatrics. 2024
  • COVID-19 vaccine uptake among non-US-born populations in the United States, 2020-2022. 
    Vaccine. 2024
  • Case series of patients with acute and chronic urticaria after COVID-19 vaccination. 
    Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. 2024
  • Characterisation and validation of lactation information from structured electronic health records for use in pharmacoepidemiological studies. 
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2024
  • Clinical epidemiology and risk factors for critical outcomes among vaccinated and unvaccinated adults hospitalized with COVID-19-VISION Network, 10 states, June 2021-March 2023. 
    Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2024
  • Colchicine and/or Naltrexone for hospitalized COVID-19 patients not requiring high levels of ventilatory support (COLTREXONE): a prospective, randomized, open-label trial. 
    Cureus. 2024
  • Confidence in diagnosing and managing care for cognitive impairment in primary care: a survey comparing barriers by primary care clinician type. 
    Family Practice. 2024
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and stillbirth in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2024
  • Cumulative environmental stress and emerging cardiometabolic risk during childhood. 
    Pediatric Obesity. 2024
  • Do children's health behaviors buffer the impact of cumulative environmental stress on emerging cardiometabolic risk?. 
    Journal of the American Heart Association. 2024
  • Effectiveness of the original monovalent and bivalent COVID-19 vaccines against COVID-19-associated emergency department and urgent care encounters in pregnant persons who were not immunocompromised: VISION Network, June 2022-August 2023. 
    Open forum infectious diseases. 2024
  • Identifying racial and ethnic disparities in acute inpatient rehabilitation. 
    Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2024
  • Impact of continuous glucose monitoring versus blood glucose monitoring to support a carbohydrate-restricted nutrition intervention in people with type 2 diabetes. 
    Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2024
  • Improving access to yoga for chronic pain in a Spanish-speaking community: a quality improvement initiative. 
    Pain Management Nursing. 2024
  • Increased identification of vaccines for vaccine safety surveillance through linkage with the Minnesota Immunization Information Connection as of December 31, 2023. 
    Public Health Reports. 2024
  • Interim estimates of 2023-24 seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness - United States. 
    MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2024
  • Mortality risk after COVID-19 vaccination: a self-controlled case series study. 
    Vaccine. 2024
  • Obstetric complications and birth outcomes after antenatal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2024
  • Protocol of a patient randomized clinical trial to improve medication adherence in primary care. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2024
  • Randomized pilot of a clinical decision support tool to increase suicide screening for at-risk primary care patients with opioid use disorder. 
    AJPM Focus. 2024
  • Safety of the seasonal influenza vaccine in 2 successive pregnancies. 
    JAMA network open. 2024
  • The impact of stimulant medications on blood pressure and body mass index in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 
    Academic Pediatrics. 2024
  • The impact of text messaging to promote patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) completion in orthopedic practice: findings from a randomized controlled study. 
    American Journal of Medical Quality. 2024
  • Time to COVID-19 vaccination by language and country of origin. 
    JAMA network open. 2024
  • Use of sequential hot-deck imputation for missing health care systems data for population health research. 
    Medical Care. 2024
  • Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 related hospitalizations in people who had experienced homelessness or incarceration - findings from the Minnesota EHR Consortium. 
    Journal of Community Health. 2024
  • 30-year cardiovascular disease risk for young adults with serious mental illness. 
    General Hospital Psychiatry. 2023
  • A broad assessment of COVID-19 vaccine safety using tree-based data-mining in the vaccine safety datalink. 
    Vaccine. 2023
  • A randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce stigma toward people with opioid use disorder among primary care clinicians. 
    Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 2023
  • A safety study evaluating non-COVID-19 mortality risk following COVID-19 vaccination. 
    Vaccine. 2023
  • Adapting a clinical decision support system to improve identification of pediatric hypertension in a rural health system: design of a pragmatic trial. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2023
  • COVID-19 booster vaccination in early pregnancy and surveillance for spontaneous abortion. 
    JAMA network open. 2023
  • COVID-19 vaccine safety surveillance in early pregnancy in the United States: design factors affecting the association between vaccine and spontaneous abortion. 
    American Journal of Epidemiology. 2023
  • Care coordination in primary care: mapping the territory. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2023
  • Challenges & opportunities for the epidemiological evaluation of the effects of COVID-19 vaccination on reproduction and pregnancy. 
    Vaccine. 2023
  • Clinical decision support to reduce opioid prescriptions for dental extractions using SMART on FHIR: implementation report. 
    JMIR medical informatics. 2023
  • De-Implementing Opioids for Dental Extractions (DIODE): a multi-clinic, cluster-randomized trial of clinical decision support strategies in dentistry. 
    Implementation science. 2023
  • De-implementing opioid prescribing in a dental group practice: lessons learned. 
    Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2023
  • Describing racial disparity in hypertension control in a large Minnesota outpatient practice. 
    Health services research and managerial epidemiology. 2023
  • Design of a pragmatic clinical trial to improve screening and treatment for opioid use disorder in primary care. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2023
  • Differential effects of an intervention to reduce cardiovascular risk for patients with bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophrenia: a randomized clinical trial. 
    Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2023
  • Diffusion restriction in the splenium: a comparative study of cytotoxic lesions of the corpus callosum (CLOCCs) versus lesions of vascular etiology. 
    Journal of clinical medicine. 2023
  • Diffusion-restricted lesions of the splenium: clinical presentation, radiographic patterns, and patient outcomes. 
    Neurology. Clinical practice. 2023
  • Evaluation of preferred language and timing of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and disease outcomes. 
    JAMA network open. 2023
  • Factor analysis in distinguishing coronavirus disease 2019 from other influenza-like illness using a validated patient-reported outcome instrument FLU-PRO Plus: a prospective real-world cohort study. 
    Medical Care. 2023
  • Household income, cortisol, and obesity during early childhood: a prospective longitudinal study. 
    Journal of Pediatrics. 2023
  • Identification of cancer chemotherapy regimens and patient cohorts in administrative claims: challenges, opportunities, and a proposed algorithm. 
    Journal of Medical Economics. 2023
  • Impact of accounting for correlation between COVID-19 and influenza vaccination in a COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness evaluation using a test-negative design. 
    Vaccine. 2023
  • Medically attended acute adverse events in pregnant people after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) booster vaccination. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2023
  • Potentially preventable readmissions after acute inpatient rehabilitation. 
    American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2023
  • Protection of two and three mRNA vaccine doses against severe outcomes among adults hospitalized with COVID-19--VISION Network, August 2021 to March 2022. 
    Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2023
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in influenza vaccination coverage among pregnant women in the United States: the contribution of vaccine-related attitudes. 
    Preventive Medicine. 2023
  • Relationships between social vulnerability and coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination coverage and vaccine effectiveness. 
    Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2023
  • Safety signal identification for COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccination using tree-based scan statistics in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 
    Vaccine. 2023
  • Tdap vaccination during pregnancy and risk of chorioamnionitis and related infant outcomes. 
    Vaccine. 2023
  • The Pap Hub: a novel centralized system for cervical cancer screening and prevention. 
    NEJM Catalyst. 2023
  • The most common medications dispensed to lactating persons: an electronic health record-based approach. 
    Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2023
  • Tree-based data mining for safety assessment of first COVID-19 booster doses in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 
    Vaccine. 2023
  • Understanding COVID-19 health disparities with birth country and language data. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2023
  • Adjusting for variation in patient-reported outcome measures is needed to improve care after total knee arthroplasty. 
    Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. 2022
  • Association of the COVID-19 pandemic with routine childhood vaccination rates and proportion up to date with vaccinations across 8 US health systems in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 
    JAMA pediatrics. 2022
  • BestFIT Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial results: a SMART approach to developing individualized weight loss treatment sequences. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2022
  • Cardiovascular risk for patients with and without schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder. 
    Journal of the American Heart Association. 2022
  • Characteristics of state legislation addressing prescription drug price increases in the United States, 2020. 
    Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2022
  • Clinical decision support with or without shared decision making to improve preventive cancer care: a cluster-randomized trial. 
    Medical Decision Making. 2022
  • Clinician perceptions of a clinical decision support system to reduce cardiovascular risk among prediabetes patients in a predominantly rural healthcare system. 
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2022
  • Comparing pharmacist-led telehealth care and clinic-based care for uncontrolled high blood pressure: the Hyperlink 3 pragmatic cluster-randomized trial. 
    Hypertension (Dallas, Tex.. 2022
  • Comparison of explanatory and pragmatic design choices in a cluster-randomized hypertension trial: effects on enrollment, participant characteristics, and adherence. 
    Trials. 2022
  • Depression and cardiovascular risk in primary care patients. 
    Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2022
  • Differences in the association between oral glucocorticoids and risk of preterm birth by data source: reconciling the results. 
    Arthritis Care & Research. 2022
  • Early estimates of bivalent mRNA vaccine effectiveness in preventing COVID-19-associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among immunocompetent adults - VISION Network, nine states, September-November 2022. 
    MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022
  • Effect of clinical decision support on cardiovascular risk among adults with bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophrenia: a cluster randomized clinical trial. 
    JAMA network open. 2022
  • Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 second doses and boosters for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and SARS-CoV-2-related hospitalizations: a statewide report from the Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium. 
    Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2022
  • Effectiveness of homologous and heterologous COVID-19 booster doses following 1 Ad.26.COV2.S (Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)) vaccine dose against COVID-19-associated emergency department and urgent care encounters and hospitalizations among adults - VISION Network, 10 states, December 2021-March 2022. 
    MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022
  • Estimation of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine effectiveness against medically attended COVID-19 in pregnancy during periods of Delta and Omicron variant predominance in the United States. 
    JAMA network open. 2022
  • Evaluation of acute adverse events after Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy. 
    New England Journal of Medicine. 2022
  • Findings and future directions from a smoking cessation trial utilizing a clinical decision support tool. 
    Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice. 2022
  • Human papillomavirus vaccination clinical decision support for young adults in an upper midwestern healthcare system: a clinic cluster-randomized control trial. 
    Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 2022
  • Implementing a prediabetes clinical decision support system in a large primary care system: design, methods, and pre-implementation results. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2022
  • Improving care for patients with chronic hepatitis B via establishment of a disease registry. 
    American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2022
  • Is shared decision-making associated with better patient-reported outcomes? A longitudinal study of patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty. 
    Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 2022
  • Is the promise of PROMs being realized? Implementation experience in a large orthopedic practice. 
    American Journal of Medical Quality. 2022
  • Patient experience of post-extraction pain management. 
    Front Dent Med. 2022
  • Point: uncertainty about estimating the risks of COVID-19 during pregnancy. 
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2022
  • Primary care clinicians' opinions before and after implementation of cancer screening and prevention clinical decision support in a clinic cluster-randomized control trial: a survey research study. 
    BMC Health Services Research. 2022
  • Pubic symphysis separation and regression in vaginal versus cesarean delivery. 
    Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. Journal d'Obstétrique et Gynécologie du Canada. 2022
  • Race/ethnicity and age associations with hair cortisol concentrations among children studied longitudinally from early through middle childhood. 
    Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2022
  • Rate and predictors of acute care encounters in the first month after stroke. 
    Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2022
  • Reach in a pragmatic hypertension trial: a critical RE-AIM component. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2022
  • Readmission to an acute care hospital during inpatient rehabilitation after stroke. 
    American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2022
  • Receipt of COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy and preterm or small-for-gestational-age at birth - eight integrated health care organizations, United States, December 15, 2020-July 22, 2021. 
    MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2022
  • Relative risks of COVID-19-associated hospitalizations and clinical outcomes by age and race/ethnicity-March 2020-March 2021. 
    Open forum infectious diseases. 2022
  • Systematic surveillance of patient-reported symptoms of viral respiratory tract infectious syndromes in diverse populations. 
    BMC Health Services Research. 2022
  • What do orthopaedists believe is needed for incorporating patient-reported outcome measures into clinical care? A qualitative study. 
    Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 2022
  • A pilot study of the functionality and clinician acceptance of a clinical decision support tool to improve primary care of opioid use disorder. 
    Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 2021
  • A randomized trial of medical cannabis in patients with stage IV cancers to assess feasibility, dose requirements, impact on pain and opioid use, safety, and overall patient satisfaction. 
    Supportive Care in Cancer. 2021
  • Association of cardiovascular outcomes and mortality with sustained long-acting insulin only vs long-acting plus short-acting insulin treatment. 
    JAMA network open. 2021
  • Association of inadvertent 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine in pregnancy with spontaneous abortion and adverse birth outcomes. 
    JAMA network open. 2021
  • Barriers to achieving target door-to-needle time in patients treated with IV thrombolysis. 
    Healthc Res J. 2021
  • Comparison of medical school financing plans among matriculating US medical students from 2017 to 2019. 
    JAMA network open. 2021
  • De-implementing opioid use and implementing optimal pain management following dental extractions (DIODE): protocol for a cluster randomized trial. 
    JMIR research protocols. 2021
  • Design and rationale of an intervention to improve cancer prevention using clinical decision support and shared decision making: a clinic-randomized trial. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2021
  • Developing algorithms for identifying major structural birth defects using automated electronic health data. 
    Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2021
  • Effect of clinical decision support on diagnostic imaging for pediatric appendicitis: a cluster randomized trial. 
    JAMA network open. 2021
  • Evaluating yield of 19 versus 21 G EBUS-TBNA needles: a prospective study. 
    Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology. 2021
  • Evaluation of fixed versus variable dosing of 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate for emergent warfarin reversal. 
    American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2021
  • Experiences and perceptions of patients with uncontrolled hypertension who are dissatisfied with their hypertension care. 
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2021
  • Oral corticosteroids and risk of preterm birth in the California Medicaid program. 
    The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice. 2021
  • Patient, provider type, and procedure type factors associated with opioid prescribing by dentists in a health care system. 
    Journal of Pain Research. 2021
  • Personalized outcomes for hip and knee replacement: the patient's point of view. 
    Journal of patient-reported outcomes. 2021
  • Population characteristics, use, and spending on sole-source, off-patent drugs among commercial insurance members in the United States—an analysis of outpatient claims data at a single health plan. 
    Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2021
  • Pragmatic clinic randomized trial to improve chronic kidney disease care: design and adaptation due to COVID disruptions. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2021
  • Spontaneous abortion following COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy. 
    JAMA. 2021
  • The impact of personalized clinical decision support on primary care patients' views of cancer prevention and screening: a cross-sectional survey. 
    BMC Health Services Research. 2021
  • Using a brief tool to assess healthy school environments: a pilot study. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2021
  • Vaccine Safety Datalink infrastructure enhancements for evaluating the safety of maternal vaccination. 
    Therapeutic advances in drug safety. 2021
  • An analysis of changes in emergency department visits after a state declaration during the time of COVID-19. 
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2020
  • Birth and early developmental screening outcomes associated with cannabis exposure during pregnancy. 
    Journal of Perinatology. 2020
  • Cardiovascular events and costs with home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management for uncontrolled hypertension. 
    Hypertension (Dallas, Tex.. 2020
  • Characteristics and price increases among sole-source, off-patent drugs in the United States, 2008 to 2018. 
    JAMA network open. 2020
  • Clinical decision support for recognizing and managing hypertensive blood pressure in youth: no significant impact on medical costs. 
    Academic Pediatrics. 2020
  • Comparison of mortality and major cardiovascular events among adults with type 2 diabetes using human vs analogue insulins. 
    JAMA network open. 2020
  • Dental Decision Simulation (DDSim): development of a virtual training environment. 
    Journal of Dental Education. 2020
  • Design of a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial comparing telehealth care and best practice clinic-based care for uncontrolled high blood pressure. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2020
  • Diagnostic performance of emergency physician gestalt for predicting acute appendicitis in patients age 5 to 20 years. 
    Academic Emergency Medicine. 2020
  • Evaluating the association of stillbirths after maternal vaccination in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2020
  • Improving hypertension recognition in adolescents, a small but important first step in cardiovascular disease prevention. 
    Academic Pediatrics. 2020
  • Oral corticosteroid use during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth. 
    Rheumatology (Oxford, England). 2020
  • Pragmatic trial design of an intervention to reduce cardiovascular risk in people with serious mental illness. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2020
  • The effects of financial incentives on diabetes prevention program attendance and weight loss among low-income patients: the We Can Prevent Diabetes cluster-randomized controlled trial. 
    BMC public health. 2020
  • What outcomes matter to patients after joint or spine surgery?. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2020
  • Development of a clinical decision support system for pediatric abdominal pain in emergency department settings across two health systems within the HCSRN. 
    EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2019
  • Impact of updated pediatric hypertension guidelines on progression from elevated blood pressure to hypertension in a community-based primary care population. 
    Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2019
  • Outcomes of adopting endoscopic tympanoplasty in an academic teaching hospital. 
    Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. 2019
  • Safety of guidelines recommending live attenuated influenza vaccine for routine use in children and adolescents with asthma. 
    Vaccine. 2019
  • The Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids 5-10 Obesity Prevention Trial: 12 and 24-month outcomes. 
    Pediatric Obesity. 2019
  • Understanding primary care providers' perceptions of cancer prevention and screening in a predominantly rural healthcare system in the upper Midwest. 
    BMC Health Services Research. 2019
  • Uptake and safety of hepatitis A vaccination during pregnancy: a Vaccine Safety Datalink study. 
    Vaccine. 2019
  • Validation of the Pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC) in a community emergency department setting. 
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2019
  • Clinical decision support directed to primary care patients and providers reduces cardiovascular risk: a randomized trial. 
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2018
  • Clinical decision support for recognition and management of hypertension: a randomized trial. 
    Pediatrics. 2018
  • Cost-effectiveness of a community-based diabetes prevention program with participation incentives for medicaid beneficiaries. 
    Health Services Research. 2018
  • Development and validation of a novel Pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC). 
    Pediatrics. 2018
  • Economic evaluation of the home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist case management to control hypertension (Hyperlink) trial. 
    Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2018
  • Evaluation of an electronic clinical decision support tool for incident elevated BP in adolescents. 
    Academic Pediatrics. 2018
  • Infant hospitalizations and mortality after maternal vaccination. 
    Pediatrics. 2018
  • Key components of success in a randomized trial of blood pressure telemonitoring with medication therapy management pharmacists. 
    Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2018
  • Long-term outcomes of the effects of home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management on blood pressure among adults with uncontrolled hypertension: follow-up of a cluster randomized clinical trial. 
    JAMA network open. 2018
  • Mediators of weight loss maintenance in the Keep It Off Trial. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2018
  • Multicomponent obesity prevention intervention in low-income preschoolers: primary and subgroup analyses of the NET-Works Randomized Clinical Trial, 2012-2017. 
    American Journal of Public Health. 2018
  • Performance of the net reclassification improvement for nonnested models and a novel percentile-based alternative. 
    American Journal of Epidemiology. 2018
  • Reducing diabetes distress and improving self-management with mindfulness. 
    Social Work in Health Care. 2018
  • Risk of spontaneous abortion after inadvertent human papillomavirus vaccination in pregnancy. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2018
  • Uptake and safety of Hepatitis B vaccination during pregnancy: a Vaccine Safety Datalink study. 
    Vaccine. 2018
  • Clinician burnout and satisfaction with resources in caring for complex patients. 
    General Hospital Psychiatry. 2017
  • Financial incentives for diabetes prevention in a Medicaid population: study design and baseline characteristics. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2017
  • First trimester influenza vaccination and risks for major structural birth defects in offspring. 
    Journal of Pediatrics. 2017
  • Identifying birth defects in automated data sources in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. 
    Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2017
  • Impact of a national collaborative care initiative for patients with depression and diabetes or cardiovascular disease. 
    General Hospital Psychiatry. 2017
  • Maternal Tdap vaccination and risk of infant morbidity. 
    Vaccine. 2017
  • Maternal and infant outcomes after human papillomavirus vaccination in the periconceptional period or during pregnancy. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2017
  • Patient-centered outcomes measurement: does it require information from patients?. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2017
  • Predicting neutropenia risk in patients with cancer using electronic data. 
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2017
  • The challenges of collecting and using patient care data from diverse care systems: lessons From COMPASS. 
    American Journal of Medical Quality. 2017
  • Use and customization of risk scores for predicting cardiovascular events using electronic health record data. 
    Journal of the American Heart Association. 2017
  • A statewide effort to implement collaborative care for depression: reach and impact for all patients with depression. 
    Medical Care. 2016
  • A substudy evaluating treatment intensification on medication adherence among hypertensive patients receiving home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management. 
    Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 2016
  • Adapting machine learning techniques to censored time-to-event health record data: A general-purpose approach using inverse probability of censoring weighting. 
    Journal of biomedical informatics. 2016
  • Diagnostic delay and antibiotic overuse in acute pulmonary blastomycosis. 
    Open forum infectious diseases. 2016
  • Implementation of electronic clinical decision support for pediatric appendicitis. 
    Pediatrics. 2016
  • Maternal Tdap vaccination: coverage and acute safety outcomes in the vaccine safety datalink, 2007-2013. 
    Vaccine. 2016
  • Patient characteristics associated with greater blood pressure control in a randomized trial of home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management. 
    Journal of the American Society of Hypertension. 2016
  • Predictors of poor response to depression treatment in primary care. 
    Psychiatric Services. 2016
  • Risk of preterm or small-for-gestational-age birth after influenza vaccination during pregnancy: caveats when conducting retrospective observational studies. 
    American Journal of Epidemiology. 2016
  • Tdap vaccination during pregnancy and microcephaly and other structural birth defects in offspring. 
    JAMA. 2016
  • The BestFIT trial: a SMART approach to developing individualized weight loss treatments. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2016
  • The effects of patient-centered depression care on patient satisfaction and depression remission. 
    Family Practice. 2016
  • A Naive Bayes machine learning approach to risk prediction using censored, time-to-event data. 
    Statistics in Medicine. 2015
  • A stepped-wedge evaluation of an initiative to spread the collaborative care model for depression in primary care. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2015
  • A successful multifaceted trial to improve hypertension control in primary care: why did it work?. 
    Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2015
  • Activity patterns of preschool-aged children at risk for obesity. 
    Journal of physical activity & health. 2015
  • Dental hygienists' usage of tobacco-cessation decision support tools in practice: a qualitative study
    2015
  • Household factors, family behavior patterns, and adherence to dietary and physical activity guidelines among children at risk for obesity. 
    Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2015
  • It is time to ask patients what outcomes are important to them
    2015
  • Organizational factors and change strategies associated with medical home transformation. 
    American Journal of Medical Quality. 2015
  • Pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention for parents of preschool children: a pilot study
    2015
  • Persistence of smoking-cessation decision support use in a dental practice. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2015
  • Prevalence of chronic kidney disease among individuals with diabetes in the SUPREME-DM Project, 2005-2011. 
    Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications. 2015
  • Preventable major cardiovascular events associated with uncontrolled glucose, blood pressure, and lipids and active smoking in adults with diabetes with and without cardiovascular disease: a contemporary analysis. 
    Diabetes care. 2015
  • Recidivism to uncontrolled blood pressure in patients with previously controlled hypertension. 
    American Heart Journal. 2015
  • Safety of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis and influenza vaccinations in pregnancy. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2015
  • TeenBP: development and piloting of an EHR-linked clinical decision support system to improve recognition of hypertension in adolescents. 
    EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2015
  • The effect of achieving patient-reported outcome measures on satisfaction. 
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2015
  • Who must we target now to minimize future cardiovascular events and total mortality? Lessons from the Surveillance, Prevention and Management of Diabetes Mellitus (SUPREME-DM) cohort study. 
    Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2015
  • Assessing organizational readiness for depression care quality improvement: relative commitment and implementation capability. 
    Implementation science. 2014
  • Binge eating behavior and weight loss maintenance over a 2-year period. 
    Journal of Obesity. 2014
  • Challenges of medical home transformation reported by 118 patient-centered medical home (PCMH) leaders. 
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2014
  • Concern about child weight among parents of children at-risk for obesity
    2014
  • Data mining for censored time-to-event data: a Bayesian network model for predicting cardiovascular risk from electronic health record data
    2014
  • Educating resident physicians using virtual case-based simulation improves diabetes management: a randomized controlled trial. 
    Academic Medicine. 2014
  • Evaluation of the association of maternal pertussis vaccination with obstetric events and birth outcomes. 
    JAMA. 2014
  • How much shared decision making occurs in usual primary care of depression? . 
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2014
  • Initial persistence with antihypertensive therapies is associated with depression treatment persistence, but not depression. 
    Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2014
  • Integrating tobacco dependence counseling into electronic dental records: a multi-method approach. 
    Journal of Dental Education. 2014
  • Job design and ethnic differences in working women's physical activity. 
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2014
  • Lipid abnormalities in foreign-born and US-born patients in a medical group. 
    Journal of Clinical Lipidology. 2014
  • Maternal influenza vaccine and risks for preterm or small for gestational age birth. 
    Journal of Pediatrics. 2014
  • Monovalent H1N1 influenza vaccine safety in pregnant women, risks for acute adverse events. 
    Vaccine. 2014
  • Patient experience and physician/staff satisfaction in transforming medical homes
    2014
  • Personalised physician learning intervention to improve hypertension and lipid control: randomised trial comparing two methods of physician profiling. 
    BMJ quality & safety. 2014
  • Predicting child physical activity and screen time: parental support for physical activity and general parenting styles. 
    Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2014
  • Receipt of pertussis vaccine during pregnancy across 7 Vaccine Safety Datalink Sites. 
    Preventive Medicine. 2014
  • Self-reported activity and accelerometry in 2 behavior-maintenance trials. 
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2014
  • The effect of depression treatment on work productivity. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2014
  • Validity of diabetes self-reports in the Women's Health Initiative. 
    Menopause (New York, N.Y.). 2014
  • Are benefits from diabetes self-management education sustained?. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2013
  • Aspirin treatment failure and the risk of recurrent stroke and death among patients with ischemic stroke. 
    Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2013
  • Barriers to and facilitators of medication adherence. 
    American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits. 2013
  • Barriers to improving primary care of depression: perspectives of medical group leaders. 
    Qualitative Health Research. 2013
  • Benefits of early hypertension control on cardiovascular outcomes in patients with diabetes. 
    Diabetes care. 2013
  • Comparison of single versus multiple spontaneous extra- and/or intracranial arterial dissection. 
    Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2013
  • Computer-assisted guidance for dental office tobacco-cessation counseling: a randomized controlled trial. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2013
  • Designing and implementing research on a statewide quality improvement initiative: the DIAMOND study and initiative. 
    Medical Care. 2013
  • Determinants of neurologic deterioration and stroke-free survival after spontaneous cervicocranial dissections: a multicenter study. 
    Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2013
  • Development and validation of the Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SORC). 
    Science and engineering ethics. 2013
  • Effect of home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management on blood pressure control: a cluster randomized clinical trial. 
    JAMA. 2013
  • Enhancing long-term weight loss maintenance: 2 year results from the Keep It Off randomized controlled trial. 
    Preventive Medicine. 2013
  • Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids: a randomized trial of a pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention intervention for at-risk 5-10 year olds. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2013
  • Inactivated influenza vaccine during pregnancy and risks for adverse obstetric events. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2013
  • Intergenerational photovoice projects: optimizing this mechanism for influencing health promotion policies and strengthening relationships. 
    Health promotion practice. 2013
  • Maternal safety of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in pregnant women. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2013
  • Medical home transformation: a gradual process and a continuum of attainment. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2013
  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction for family caregivers: a randomized controlled trial. 
    The Gerontologist. 2013
  • Mortality rates and cause-of-death patterns in a vaccinated population. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2013
  • NET-Works: Linking families, communities and primary care to prevent obesity in preschool-age children. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2013
  • Patient characteristics associated with medication adherence. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Project Wings, a coping intervention for Latina adolescents: a pilot study. 
    Western Journal of Nursing Research. 2013
  • Relationships between the Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SORC) and self-reported research practices. 
    Science and engineering ethics. 2013
  • Safety of the yellow fever vaccine: a retrospective study. 
    Journal of Travel Medicine. 2013
  • Secular trends in diagnostic code density in electronic healthcare data from health care systems in the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project. 
    Vaccine. 2013
  • Self-report compared to electronic medical record across eight adult vaccines: do results vary by demographic factors?. 
    Vaccine. 2013
  • Stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and mental health in hospice workers in Minnesota. 
    Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2013
  • Support and strategies for change among small patient-centered medical home practices. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2013
  • The DIAMOND initiative: implementing collaborative care for depression in 75 primary care clinics. 
    Implementation science. 2013
  • Using simulation technology to teach diabetes care management skills to resident physicians. 
    Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. 2013
  • A comparison of dental restoration outcomes after placement by restorative function auxiliaries versus dentists. 
    Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2012
  • Adherence to blood pressure telemonitoring in a cluster-randomized clinical trial. 
    Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2012
  • Age differential between outcomes of carotid angioplasty and stent placement and carotid endarterectomy in general practice. 
    Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2012
  • Are characteristics of the medical home associated with diabetes care costs?. 
    Medical Care. 2012
  • Comparison of acute nonthrombolytic and thrombolytic treatments in ischemic stroke patients 80 years or older. 
    American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2012
  • Cost-effectiveness of an electronic medical record based clinical decision support system. 
    Health Services Research. 2012
  • Design and rationale for Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring and Case Management to Control Hypertension (HyperLink): a cluster randomized trial. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2012
  • Intracranial stenosis in young patients: unique characteristics and risk factors. 
    Neuroepidemiology. 2012
  • Long-term clinical and angiographic outcomes in patients with spontaneous cervico-cranial arterial dissections treated with stent placement. 
    Journal of Neuroimaging. 2012
  • Patient medical group continuity and healthcare utilization. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2012
  • Patient-centered medical home cost reductions limited to complex patients. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2012
  • Strength of association for incident diabetes risk factors according to diabetes case definitions: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
    American Journal of Epidemiology. 2012
  • Using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA) to explore the relationship between medical "homeness" and quality. 
    Health Services Research. 2012
  • Comparative effectiveness of patient education methods for type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial. 
    Archives of Internal Medicine. 2011
  • Comparison between angioplasty using compliant and noncompliant balloons for treatment of cerebral vasospasm associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
    Neurosurgery. 2011
  • Estimated prevalence of acoustic cranial windows and intracranial stenosis in the US elderly population: ultrasound screening in adults for intracranial disease study. 
    Neuroepidemiology. 2011
  • Five-year rehospitalization outcomes in a cohort of patients with acute ischemic stroke: Medicare linkage study. 
    Stroke. 2011
  • Impact of electronic health record clinical decision support on diabetes care: a randomized trial. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2011
  • Impact of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for treatment of cerebral vasospasm on subarachnoid hemorrhage patient outcomes. 
    Neurocritical Care. 2011
  • Is consistent primary care within a patient-centered medical home related to utilization patterns and costs?. 
    Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 2011
  • Keep it off: a phone-based intervention for long-term weight-loss maintenance. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2011
  • Obesogenic family types identified through latent profile analysis. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2011
  • Prevalence of practice system tools for improving depression care among primary care clinics: the DIAMOND initiative. 
    Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2011
  • Recruiting and retaining family caregivers to a randomized controlled trial on mindfulness-based stress reduction. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2011
  • Relationship of clinic medical home scores to health care costs. 
    Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 2011
  • Relationship of clinic medical home scores to quality and patient experience. 
    Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 2011
  • Severity of depression and magnitude of productivity loss. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2011
  • The effect of electronic health records on the use of clinical care guidelines for patients with medically complex conditions. 
    Journal of the American Dental Association. 2011
  • The use of telehealth technology in assessing the accuracy of self-reported weight and the impact of a daily immediate-feedback intervention among obese employees. 
    International journal of telemedicine and applications. 2011
  • Trends in quality during medical home transformation. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2011
  • A cluster-randomized trial to improve stroke care in hospitals. 
    Neurology. 2010
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of protected carotid artery stent placement versus endarterectomy in high-risk patients. 
    Journal of Endovascular Therapy. 2010
  • Informed choice assistance for women making uterine fibroid treatment decisions: a practical clinical trial. 
    Medical Decision Making. 2010
  • Maintaining physical activity among older adults: 24-month outcomes of the Keep Active Minnesota randomized controlled trial. 
    Preventive Medicine. 2010
  • Partnership research: a practical trial design for evaluation of a natural experiment to improve depression care. 
    Medical Care. 2010
  • Population reach and recruitment bias in a maintenance RCT in physically active older adults. 
    Journal of physical activity & health. 2010
  • Simulated physician learning program improves glucose control in adults with diabetes. 
    Diabetes care. 2010
  • The importance of organizational justice in ensuring research integrity. 
    Journal of empirical research on human research ethics. 2010
  • The long and winding road to physical activity maintenance. 
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2010
  • Customized feedback to patients and providers failed to improve safety or quality of diabetes care: a randomized trial. 
    Diabetes care. 2009
  • Diabetes care quality: insurance, health plan, and physician group contributions. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2009
  • Does diabetes double the risk of depression?. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2009
  • Effects of paroxetine and sertraline on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol: an observational cohort study. 
    CNS drugs. 2009
  • Evaluating preference-sensitive care for uterine fibroids: it's not so simple. 
    Journal of women's health (2002). 2009
  • Institutions' expectations for researchers' self-funding, federal grant holding, and private industry involvement: manifold drivers of self-interest and researcher behavior. 
    Academic Medicine. 2009
  • Is integration in large medical groups associated with quality?. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2009
  • Knowledge, attitudes, and preferences regarding advance directives among patients of a managed care organization. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2009
  • Self-weighing promotes weight loss for obese adults. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2009
  • Simulated physician learning intervention to improve safety and quality of diabetes care: a randomized trial. 
    Diabetes care. 2009
  • Telephone counseling and home telemonitoring: the Weigh by Day Trial. 
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2009
  • A new approach to physical activity maintenance: rationale, design, and baseline data from the Keep Active Minnesota Trial. 
    BMC Geriatrics. 2008
  • A randomized controlled trial of telephone counseling with smokeless tobacco users: the ChewFree Minnesota study. 
    Nicotine & tobacco research. 2008
  • Can patient safety be measured by surveys of patient experiences?. 
    Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety. 2008
  • Maintaining physical activity among older adults: six-month outcomes of the Keep Active Minnesota randomized controlled trial. 
    Preventive Medicine. 2008
  • Measuring an organization's ability to manage change: the change process capability questionnaire and its use for improving depression care. 
    American Journal of Medical Quality. 2008
  • Measuring practice systems for chronic illness care: accuracy of self-reports from clinical personnel. 
    Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety. 2008
  • Oral health program preferences among pregnant women in a managed care organization. 
    Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 2008
  • Practice systems are associated with high-quality care for diabetes. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2008
  • Relationship between the presence of practice systems and the quality of care for depression. 
    American Journal of Medical Quality. 2008
  • The effect of advanced access implementation on quality of diabetes care. 
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2008
  • Tobacco-use prevalence in special populations taking advantage of electronic medical records. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2008
  • Variation in quality of diabetes care at the levels of patient, physician, and clinic. 
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2008
  • Crossing the quality chasm for diabetes care: the power of one physician, his team, and systems thinking. 
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2007
  • Evaluating strategies and costs to recruit smokeless tobacco users. 
    Addictive Behaviors. 2007
  • Impact of chemotherapy in women with metastatic breast cancer diagnosed 1990-2003. 
    Clinical Breast Cancer. 2007
  • Proactive recruitment of health plan smokers into telephone counseling. 
    Nicotine & tobacco research. 2007
  • Smoking and cessation behaviors among young adults of various educational backgrounds. 
    American Journal of Public Health. 2007
  • Use of practice system tools by medical groups for depression. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2007
  • Young adult smokers: are they different?. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2007
  • Ambulatory care quality measures for the 6 aims from administrative data. 
    American Journal of Medical Quality. 2006
  • Care quality and implementation of the chronic care model: a quantitative study. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2006
  • Effect of improved primary care access on quality of depression care. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2006
  • Scientists' perceptions of organizational justice and self-reported misbehaviors. 
    Journal of empirical research on human research ethics. 2006
  • Frequency of physician-directed assistance for smoking cessation in patients receiving cessation medications. 
    Archives of Internal Medicine. 2005
  • Health care charges associated with physical inactivity, overweight, and obesity. 
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2005
  • Impact of an electronic medical record on diabetes quality of care. 
    Annals of Family Medicine. 2005
  • Insurance status and access to urgent ambulatory care follow-up appointments. 
    JAMA. 2005
  • Offering telephone counseling to smokers using pharmacotherapy. 
    Nicotine & tobacco research. 2005
  • Practice systems for chronic care: frequency and dependence on an electronic medical record. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2005
  • Randomized trial of quality improvement intervention to improve diabetes care in primary care settings. 
    Diabetes care. 2005
  • Do all components of the chronic care model contribute equally to quality improvement?
    2004
  • Does improved access to care affect utilization and costs for patients with chronic conditions?. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2004
  • Health and performance factors in health care shift workers. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2004
  • Is patient readiness to change a predictor of improved glycemic control?. 
    Diabetes care. 2004
  • Measuring patient safety in ambulatory care: potential for identifying medical group drug-drug interaction rates using claims data. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2004
  • Meeting recommendations for multiple healthy lifestyle factors. Prevalence, clustering, and predictors among adolescent, adult, and senior health plan members. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2004
  • Changes in physical activity and short-term changes in health care charges: a prospective cohort study of older adults. 
    Preventive Medicine. 2003
    • Editorial Article
  • COVID-19 mRNA vaccines during pregnancy: new evidence to help address vaccine hesitancy [editorial]. 
    JAMA.  327. 2022
  • Risk and benefit information and use of aspirin [editorial]. 
    JAMA internal medicine.  177. 2017
  • Self-reported diabetes is a valid outcome in pragmatic clinical trials and observational studies [editorial]. 
    Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.  66. 2013
    • Conference Paper
    *** hidden publications ***
  • The Pap Hub: Minnesota’s First Cervical Cancer Screening Coordination System
    2023
  • Comparison of pubic symphysis diastasis and regression: vaginal vs cesarean delivery
    2016
  • Cost-effectiveness of EMR-based clinical decision support [presentation
    2011
  • Changes in physical activity and nutrition in a behavioral intervention pilot study: Passport to Brain Wellness
    2010
  • Does comorbid bipolar condition affect diabetes quality of care measures?
    2007
  • Maintaining physical activity among older adults: six months outcomes of the Keep Active Minnesota (KAM) randomized controlled trial
    2007
  • Research integrity and the social and psychological environments of science
    2007
  • Should diabetes accountability measures be adjusted for mental health diagnosis? The case of schizophrenia
    2007
    • Conference Poster
  • The Pap Hub: Minnesota’s first cervical cancer screening coordination system [poster]
    2023
  • Factors associated with Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) compliance and weight loss among low-income participants [poster]
    2019
  • Hearing the patient voice on pain management after dental extractions [poster]
    2019
  • Like pulling teeth: designing clinical decision support to improve tobacco cessation in dental practice [poster]
    2019
  • Highly motivated population provides two successful recruitment methods into the TMD self-care study and PACT program [poster]
    2018
  • PACT: a self-management program for chronic pain utilizing online education and telehealth coaching, findings of the pilot study [poster]
    2018
  • A clinical decision support system promotes shared decision-making and cardiovascular risk factor management [poster]
    2017
  • Aspirin for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: challenges to appropriate use [poster]
    2017
  • Can prioritized clinical decision support in primary care reduce cardiovascular risk? [poster]
    2017
  • Clinical decision support impact on overuse and underuse of aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events [poster]
    2017
  • Development and validation of a risk equation for appendicitis in children presenting with abdominal pain [poster]
    2017
  • Impact of improving diabetes care on Quality adjusted Life Expectancy (QALE) and costs: a 40-year perspective [poster]
    2017
  • Long-term outcomes of a cluster-randomized trial testing the effects of blood pressure (BP) telemonitoring and pharmacist management on BP outcomes [poster]
    2017
  • Long-term outcomes of a cluster-randomized trial testing the effects of blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management [poster]
    2017
  • Primary care provider use rates of a clinical decision support tool and change in diabetes performance measures [poster]
    2017
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in completion of the routine immunization series by age two [poster]
    2017
  • Results of a cluster-randomized trial testing the effects of TeenBP, an EHR-based clinical decision support tool, on recognition of adolescent hypertension [poster]
    2017
  • Using EMR-linked data for passive patient safety reporting in pragmatic clinical trials [poster]
    2017
  • What factors facilitate weight loss among Medicaid beneficiaries participating in the diabetes prevention program [poster]?
    2017
  • Correlation between provider use rates of a clinical decision support tool and diabetes performance measures [e-poster 1266-P]. 
    Diabetes. 2016
  • Design of diabetes clinical decision support systems that reduce CV risk [poster]
    2015
  • Improving population health: predictors of recidivism to uncontrolled hypertension in patients with previously well-controlled hypertension [poster]
    2015
  • Passive safety monitoring using electronic medical records data for pragmatic cardiovascular clinical trials [poster]
    2015
  • Use and customization of risk scores for predicting cardiovascular events with electronic health data [poster]
    2015
  • How did pharmacists help patients achieve blood pressure control in a randomized trial of home blood pressure telemonitoring plus pharmacist management [poster]?
    2014
  • Personalized physician learning intervention to improve hypertension control: randomized trial comparing two methods of physician profiling [poster]
    2014
  • Preventable major cardiovascular events due to uncontrolled glucose, blood pressure, and lipids or active smoking in adults with diabetes with and without cardiovascular disease [poster]
    2014
  • Validation of colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) data within the HMORN Virtual Data Warehouse [poster]
    2014
  • Comparison of blood pressure (BP) measurement in HealthPartners primary care clinics before and after automated BP device use [poster]
    2013
  • Creation and implementation of an analytic dataset for a multi-site surveillance study using electronic health records (EHR) and medical claims data [poster]
    2013
  • Declining rates of major cardiovascular events in adults with and without diabetes: 2005-2011 [poster]
    2013
  • Dental SimCare: building a simulation system to train dentists [poster]
    2013
  • Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids 5-10: results from baseline analyses [poster]
    2013
  • How to engage patients and clinicians as research partners, and have fun, too [poster]
    2013
  • Improved self-efficacy and satisfaction with care among Hyperlink intervention patients [poster]
    2013
  • Improving diabetes management with mindfulness-based stress reduction [poster]
    2013
  • Outcomes at six months of a randomized trial of home blood pressure telemonitoring with pharmacist case management [poster]
    2013
  • Personalized physician learning intervention to improve hypertension control: randomized trial comparing two methods of physician profiling [poster]
    2013
  • SSRI usage associated with tooth and restoration fracture via bruxism and other movement disorders: could mouthguards protect the teeth of SSRI users? [poster]
    2013
  • COMPASS: evaluating an evolving and spreading innovation [poster]
    2012
  • DIAMOND: what predicts poor response to usual depression treatment in primary care? [poster]
    2012
  • Drug characteristics associated with medication adherence across eight disease states [poster]
    2012
  • Drug characteristics associated with medication adherence across eight disease states [poster]
    2012
  • Enhancing weight loss maintenance: 2 year results from the Keep It Off trial [poster]
    2012
  • Integrating patient and clinician perspectives in the TransforMN study [poster]
    2012
  • Lipid patterns among foreign and U.S. born patients in a medical group [poster]
    2012
  • Outcomes at six months of a randomized trial of home blood pressure telemonitoring with pharmacist case management [poster]
    2012
  • Simulated provider training improves diabetes management [poster]
    2012
  • Testing a clinical decision support process to lower cardiovascular risk of patients [poster]
    2012
  • We can prevent diabetes in Minnesota [poster]
    2012
  • A simulated diabetes learning intervention improves provider knowledge and confidence in managing diabetes [poster]
    2011
  • Are improvements in clinic practice systems associated with improvements in quality outcomes [poster]?
    2011
  • DIAMOND Study: an innovative observational design model for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research [poster]
    2011
  • Designing a patient interface for shared decision support [poster]
    2011
  • Does depression status impact recognition, treatment, or control of hypertension [poster]?
    2011
  • Effectiveness of computer-assisted guidance for tobacco dependence in dental offices: a randomized clinical trial [poster]
    2011
  • Effectiveness of using e-health records to improve dental care for medically compromised patients [poster]
    2011
  • Estimating pregnancy start dates with prenatal procedure codes [poster]
    2011
  • Improvements in self-efficacy and diabetes distress, but not glucose control, from individual diabetes education are sustained [poster]
    2011
  • Provider and staff beliefs and attitudes about creating care systems for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in a private medical group [poster]
    2011
  • Provider satisfaction with a simulated learning approach to diabetes management [poster]
    2011
  • Safety of seasonal influenza vaccine (TIV) in pregnant women [poster]
    2011
  • Safety of the yellow fever vaccine: a retrospective study [poster]
    2011
  • Use of Diabetes Wizard EMR-based clinical decision support system [poster]
    2011
  • Which patient characteristics predict response and remission to usual primary care of depression [poster]?
    2011
  • Will dental providers use a computer-assisted guidance tool to support tobacco interventions [poster]?
    2011
  • Burnout, compassion fatigue, and coping among hospice caregivers [poster]
    2010
  • Changes in cognitive function and plasma biomarkers in a pilot trial of a multi-domain intervention to prevent cognitive decline [poster]
    2010
  • Cost effectiveness of an EMR-based clinical decision support system [poster]
    2010
  • EHR-based clinical decision support for assessing cardiovascular risk [poster]
    2010
  • Electronic data collection for a clinical trial conducted within a health system [poster]
    2010
  • MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction) for caregivers of people with dementia: the Balance Study [poster]
    2010
  • Medication adherence across eight disease states within an integrated health system [poster]
    2010
  • Physical activity maintenance [poster]
    2010
  • The DIAMOND Study [poster]
    2010
  • The Minnesota Memory Project [poster]
    2010
  • Medication therapy management (MTM): an evaluation of medicare part d member response and participation [poster]
    2009
  • Are diabetes patients with depression more likely to get routine care process measures [poster]?
    2008
  • Dentist attributes associated with sealant placement [poster]
    2008
  • Is the placement of dental sealants related to caries risk [poster]?
    2008
  • Prescription errors in the electronic medical record: provider perceptions and suggestions for modification [poster]
    2008
  • Prescription errors in the electronic medical record: provider perceptions and suggestions for modification [poster]
    2008
  • Prescription errors in the electronic medical record: provider perceptions and suggestions for modification [poster]
    2008
  • Statin use is associated with a reduced risk of colon cancer recurrence [poster]
    2008
  • Statin use is associated with a reduced risk of colon cancer recurrence [poster]
    2008
  • Using EMR (electronic medical record) data for passive patient safety surveillance in clinical trials [poster]
    2008
  • Correlations of body mass index with the circadian mean and amplitude of endocrine and metabolic functions in the elderly [poster]
    2007
  • The functional state of elderly subjects related to endocrine rhythm parameters [poster]
    2007
    • Report
  • Comparing telehealth and clinic-based care for lowering uncontrolled high blood pressure
    2021
    • Review
  • Factors associated with increased health care utilization for patients with dementia with Lewy bodies: a narrative review [review]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2024
  • Assessing the safety of influenza immunization during pregnancy: the Vaccine Safety Datalink [review]. 
    American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2012
  • The effect of exercise during pregnancy on maternal outcomes: practical implications for practice [review]. 
    American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 2008
  • Weight-loss outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of weight-loss clinical trials with a minimum 1-year follow-up [review article] J Am Diet Assoc
    2007
    • Abstract
  • Assessing challenges to implementing tobacco cessation guidelines in dental offices [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • Comparing change in systolic blood pressure with clinic-based care versus telehealth care in a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial (Hyperlink 3) [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • Differences in chronic kidney disease management in patients with and without diabetes in a large care delivery system [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2020
  • Glycemic relapse: major threat to ongoing improvement in diabetes care [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2020
  • A web-based clinical decision support system (Wizard) increases appropriate cardiometabolic diagnostic coding at primary care visits [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • Dissemination and sustained use of an outpatient clinical decision system with high use rates, high clinician satisfaction, and positive impact on quality of care [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • Long-term effects on cardiovascular events of home blood pressure telemonitoring with pharmacist management in patients with uncontrolled hypertension [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • Variation in care improvement opportunities suggests need for tailored clinician-specific improvement interventions [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
  • A comparison of the impact of the 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines on primary care populations with and without diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2018
  • Impact of human versus analog insulins on occurrence of myocardial infarction [abstract]. 
    Diabetologia. 2017
  • A clinical decision support system promotes shared decision-making and cardiovascular risk factor management [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
  • All is not equal...or is it? Targeting uncontrolled cardiovascular risk factors in racial and ethnic populations to prevent major cardiovascular events [abstract]. 
    Diabetologia. 2016
  • Can financial incentives prevent diabetes in a low-income population? [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2016
  • Comparative effectiveness of two diabetes clinical decision support systems on cardiometabolic outcomes and CV risk: randomized trial [abstract 2304-PUB]. 
    Diabetes. 2016
  • Design features of successful outpatient chronic disease care clinical decision support systems [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
  • Eliciting patient treatment preferences using a clinical decision support system [abstract 1252-P]. 
    Diabetes. 2016
  • Overuse and underuse of acetyl-salicylic acid for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetologia. 2016
  • Overuse and underuse of aspirin for primary prevention [abstract 1225-P]. 
    Diabetes. 2016
  • Overuse and underuse of aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events in primary care [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
  • Qualitative data from a trial of home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management (Hyperlink) [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
  • Randomised trial of a diabetes clinical decision support system: use rates, provider satisfaction, and impact on clinical outcomes [abstract]. 
    Diabetologia. 2016
  • The BestFIT Weight Loss Trial: smart study design and early implementation lessons learned [abstract]. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2016
  • Use and customization of risk scores for predicting cardiovascular events using electronic health record data [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
  • Achieving clinically significant weight loss: how soon can we respond to non-responders [abstract]?. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2015
  • Are composite measures of diabetes quality of care associated with major CV events [abstract 440-P]?. 
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Evaluation of provider experience with an EHR-based clinical decision support tool [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2015
  • How to minimize future CV events and total mortality in adults with diabetes: lessons from the 10,000,000 person-year SUPREME Cohort Study [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Implementation of an electronic dental record tool to increase referrals to a tobacco counseling quit line [abstract]. 
    Implementation science. 2015
  • Surveillance of cardiovascular events and total mortality among insured adults with and without diabetes: the SUPREME Cohort Study [abstract 55-OR]. 
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Sustained use of a diabetes clinical decision support tool in primary care practices [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Timing of consent into a multicenter randomized controlled traumatic brain injury clinical trial conducted under exception from informed consent [abstract]. 
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2015
  • Educating resident physicians using virtual case-based simulation improves diabetes management--a randomized, controlled trial [abstract 322-OR]. 
    Diabetes. 2014
  • Improving mental health and diabetes management with mindfulness-based stress reduction [abstract] [presentation]
    2014
  • Building a simulation system to train dentists to practice evidence-based dentistry [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Outcomes of a randomized trial of home blood pressure telemonitoring with pharmacist case management [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Recidivism to uncontrolled BP levels in previously controlled hypertension patients [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Testing a clinical decision support process to lower cardiovascular risk of patients [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Virtual diabetes education improves resident physician knowledge and performance: a cluster randomized trial [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013
  • Virtual diabetes education improves resident physician knowledge and performance: a cluster-randomized trial [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2013
  • A comparison of blood pressure measurements derived from primary care practice and research settings [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • A simulated diabetes learning intervention improves provider knowledge and confidence in managing diabetes [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Are outcomes from diabetes self-management education sustained? A randomized controlled trial [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2012
  • Comparison of ethnicity and race categorization in electronic medical records and by self-report [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Improved glycemic control from diabetes self-management education is not sustained [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Primary care residents highly rate simulated diabetes training [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Season, daylight, and A1c levels [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2012
  • Simulated diabetes training helps providers bring patients to goals: a cluster randomized trial [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2012
  • Simulated training improves provider knowledge and confidence in managing diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2012
  • Adherence to comprehensive interventions for management of uncontrolled hypertension [abstract]. 
    Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2011
  • Is a cut score of 61 on the HOBET still cutting the mustard [abstract]?. 
    Prehospital Emergency Care. 2011
  • Medication adherence in patients with uncontrolled blood pressure: results from the Hyperlink Study [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2011
  • Paramedic program entrance exams as a predictor of student success [abstract]. 
    Prehospital Emergency Care. 2011
  • Participant characteristics associated with medication adherence [abstract]. 
    Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. 2011
  • Patient characteristics associated with medication adherence [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2011
  • Use of alternative lifestyle methods to control hypertension in individuals entering a blood pressure clinical trial [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2011
  • A diabetes simulated physician learning program improved glucose control and is highly cost-effective [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2010
  • A new approach to CME? A simulated physician learning program improves glucose control in adults with diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2010
  • Changes in physical activity and nutrition in a behavioral intervention pilot study - passport to brain wellness [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
  • Comparing characteristics of adults who successfully lost weight using exercise vs. non-exercise focused methods [abstract]. 
    Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 2010
  • Cost-effectiveness of an EMR-based diabetes clinical decision support system [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2010
  • Does physical activity promote positive body image in recent weight losers [abstract]?. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2010
  • EMR-based clinical decision support system improved glucose and blood pressure control in adults with diabetes [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
  • Effect of point-of-care A1c testing in primary care clinics on diabetes medication intensification [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
  • Enhancing long-term weight loss maintenance: Keep It Off trial design and baseline data [abstract]. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2010
  • Home blood pressure telemonitoring and case management to control hypertension: HyperLink trial design and baseline characteristics [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
  • Home blood pressure telemonitoring and case management to control hypertension: hyperlink design, baseline characteristics, and intervention adherence [abstract]. 
    Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2010
  • Personalized learning intervention to enhance hypertension care skills of physicians and extended-care providers [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2010
  • Personalized physician learning intervention improved glucose control in adults with diabetes [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
  • Racial disparities in A1c change and medication intensification [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010
  • The long and winding road to physical activity maintenance: theory-driven mediation analysis in the Keep Active Minnesota (KAM) trial [abstract]. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2010
  • Use of complementary and alternative medicine in people with diabetes [abstract]. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2010
  • Clinical decision support delivered through EMRs improved glucose and blood pressure control in adults with diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetologia. 2009
  • EMR-based clinical decision support system improved glucose and blood pressure control in adults with diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2009
  • Personalized physician learning intervention improved glucose control in adults with diabetes [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2009
  • Stress, burnout, compassion fatigue and coping in Minnesota hospice workers [abstract]. 
    The Gerontologist. 2009
  • Two-year outcomes of a physical activity maintenance RCT in 50 to 70-year-old adults [abstract]. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2009
  • Are diabetes patients with depression more likely to get routine care process measures [abstract]?. 
    Diabetes. 2008
  • Predicting prolonged mechanical ventilation in ARDS using logistic regression and neural network models [abstract]. 
    American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2008
  • Using EMR (electronic medical record) data for passive patient safety surveillance in clinical trials [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2008
  • Association of diabetes and schizophrenia in a health plan population [abstract 1980-P] Diabetes
    2007
  • Association of diabetes and schizophrenia in a health plan population [abstract] Biol Psychiatry
    2007
  • Does diabetes double the risk of depression? Understanding the impact of visit frequency [abstract 1979-P] Diabetes
    2007
  • EMR (Electronic Medical Record) is not associated with better diabetes care [abstract 1207-P] Diabetes
    2007
  • Impact of bipolar condition on diabetes care in adults [abstract 1978-P] Diabetes
    2007
  • Impact of bipolar condition on diabetes care in adults [abstract] Biol Psychiatry
    2007
  • Impact of schizophrenia diagnosis on diabetes care in adults [abstract 2807-PO] Diabetes
    2007
  • Impact of schizophrenia diagnosis on diabetes care in adults [abstract] Biol Psychiatry
    2007
  • Is severity of depression related to glycemic control in adults with diabetes mellitus [abstract 1981-P]? Diabetes
    2007
  • Is severity of depression related to glycemic control in adults with diabetes mellitus [abstract]? Biol Psychiatry
    2007
  • Using EMR (Electronic Medical Record) to assess variation in diabetes care quality of care across clinics and physicians [abstract 2602-PO] Diabetes
    2007
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  • Community consultation and public disclosure: the ResQ Trial experience
    2007
  • Depression diagnosis is related to number of outpatient visits in diabetes and non-diabetes patients
    2007
  • Diabetes care is no better in clinics that use electronic medical records (EMR)
    2007
  • Does diabetes double the risk of depression?
    2007
  • EMR (Electronic Medical Record) is not associated with better diabetes care
    2007
  • EMR (Electronic Medical Record) use is not associated with better diabetes care
    2007
  • Knowledge, attitudes and preferences related to advance directives among patients of a managed care organization
    2007
  • Knowledge, attitudes and preferences related to advance directives among patients of a managed care organization
    2007
  • Should diabetes quality measures be adjusted for patient depression status?
    2007
  • Variation in diabetes quality of care across clinics: an assessment using electronic medical record data
    2007
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