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We provide health-related evaluation and survey services to HealthPartners departments and the research community so programs can measure their impact on every aspect of care from quality and cost to experience.
Overview
abbreviation
  • CESR
    • Affiliation
    people
    Faculty Position
  • JaKa, Meghan M., PhD, Senior Evaluation Scientist 2018 -
  • Ziegenfuss, Jeanette Y., PhD , Director of Survey and Evaluation Science
    • Position
  • Alch, Samantha R., MPH, Former Evaluation & Survey Coordinator
  • Dinh, Jennifer M., MPH, Evaluation & Survey Project Manager
  • Rivard, Rachael L., MPH, Evaluation & Survey Statistician 2019 -
    • Publications While At Healthpartners
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • The role of care coordination: a qualitative study of care coordinator perceptions. 
    Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2024
  • Ankle fractures: high implant cost is not associated with better patient reported outcomes. 
    Injury. 2023
  • Care coordination in primary care: mapping the territory. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2023
  • Effectiveness of music therapy within community hospitals: an EMMPIRE retrospective study. 
    Pain reports. 2023
  • Inequalities in communicating about nutrition information during prenatal care: the after-visit summary. 
    American journal of health education. 2023
  • Massage therapy for children, adolescents, and young adults: clinical delivery and effectiveness in hematology and oncology. 
    Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 2023
  • Optimizing patient-reported outcome collection and documentation in medical music therapy: process-improvement study. 
    JMIR human factors. 2023
  • Survey-based evaluation of a fish consumption information dissemination campaign within an integrated health system: learnings from ChooseYourFish. 
    Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2023
  • The impact of COVID-19 on patients receiving care coordination in primary care: a qualitative study. 
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2023
  • The most common medications dispensed to lactating persons: an electronic health record-based approach. 
    Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2023
  • A smartphone-based self-management intervention for individuals with bipolar disorder (LiveWell): empirical and theoretical framework, intervention design, and study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
    JMIR research protocols. 2022
  • 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 preoperative opioid use with postoperative opioid use and patient-reported outcomes in ankle fracture fixation patients. 
    Foot Ankle Orthop. 2022
  • Behaviors, beliefs, and recommendations to optimize promotion of safe fish consumption before and during pregnancy: a physician survey. 
    Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2022
  • Capturing patient-reported outcomes: paper versus electronic survey administration. 
    OTA Int. 2022
  • Clinical delivery and effectiveness of music therapy in hematology and oncology: an EMMPIRE retrospective study. 
    Integrative Cancer Therapies. 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
  • Findings and future directions from a smoking cessation trial utilizing a clinical decision support tool. 
    Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice. 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
  • Making sense of diabetes medication decisions: a mixed methods cluster randomized trial using a conversation aid intervention. 
    Endocrine. 2022
  • Patient experience of post-extraction pain management. 
    Front Dent Med. 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
  • Reach in a pragmatic hypertension trial: a critical RE-AIM component. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 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
  • "I know my body better than you:" patient focus groups to inform a decision aid on oral corticosteroid use during pregnancy. 
    Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2021
  • Applying the behavior change technique taxonomy to four multicomponent childhood obesity interventions. 
    Western Journal of Nursing Research. 2021
  • De-implementing opioid use and implementing optimal pain management following dental extractions (DIODE): protocol for a cluster randomized trial. 
    JMIR research protocols. 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
  • Impact of demographic survey questions on response rate and measurement: a randomized experiment. 
    Survey Practice. 2021
  • It's important to hear and learn from youth experiencing homelessness in the Twin Cities. 
    MinnPost. 2021
  • It’s important to hear and learn from youth experiencing homelessness in the Twin Cities. 
    MinnPost. 2021
  • Personalized outcomes for hip and knee replacement: the patient's point of view. 
    Journal of patient-reported outcomes. 2021
  • Pragmatic evaluation of a health system-based employee weight management program. 
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021
  • Primary care physician perspectives on using team care in clinical practice. 
    Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2021
  • Promoting fish consumption messages: perspectives of hmong women of childbearing age. 
    American Journal of Health Behavior. 2021
  • Significant pain reduction in hospitalized patients receiving integrative medicine interventions by clinical population and accounting for pain medication. 
    Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 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
  • A strategy to promote population-wide life satisfaction while advancing equity. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 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
  • Development of a questionnaire to assess patient priorities in hip fracture care. 
    Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation. 2020
  • Patient and care team perspectives of telemedicine in critical access hospitals. 
    Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2020
  • What outcomes matter to patients after joint or spine surgery?. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2020
  • Baseline diet quality of predominantly minority children and adolescents from households characterized by low socioeconomic status in the Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research (COPTR) Consortium. 
    BMC nutrition. 2019
  • Quasi-experimental evaluation of LifeCourse on utilization and patient and caregiver quality of life and experience. 
    American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. 2019
  • Responses to a social media campaign promoting safe fish consumption among women. 
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 2019
  • The Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids 5-10 Obesity Prevention Trial: 12 and 24-month outcomes. 
    Pediatric Obesity. 2019
  • The health and well-being of an ACO population. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2019
  • The predicted impact of adopting health-promoting behaviors on disease burden in a commercially insured population. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2019
  • Understanding outcomes in behavior change interventions to prevent pediatric obesity: the role of dose and behavior change techniques. 
    Health Education and Behavior. 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
  • Validating a method to assess disease burden from insurance claims. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2019
  • 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
  • Novel patterns of physical activity in a large sample of preschool-aged children. 
    BMC public health. 2018
  • Piquing their “Pinterest”: a qualitative study to format and deliver complex fish consumption guidelines to women who are or could become pregnant
    2018
  • Potentially preventable hospital and emergency department events: lessons from a large innovation project. 
    The Permanente journal. 2018
  • Rationale for routine collection of patient reported outcomes during integrative medicine consultation visits. 
    Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 2018
  • Understanding primary care provider attitudes and behaviors regarding cardiovascular disease risk and diabetes prevention in the northern midwest. 
    Clinical Diabetes. 2018
  • Acceptability, adaptation, and clinical outcomes of acupuncture provided in the emergency department: a retrospective pilot study. 
    Pain Medicine. 2017
  • Decision trees in epidemiological research
    2017
  • Feasibility of standardized methods to specify behavioral pediatric obesity prevention interventions. 
    Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2017
  • Optimizing patient-reported outcome and risk factor reporting from cancer survivors: a randomized trial of four different survey methods among colorectal cancer survivors. 
    Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 2017
  • Parent choice in a pediatric obesity prevention intervention
    2017
  • Parent's physical activity associated with preschooler activity in underserved populations. 
    American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2017
  • Patient-centered outcomes measurement: does it require information from patients?. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2017
  • Predicting dietary intake among children classified as overweight or at risk for overweight: Independent and interactive effects of parenting practices and styles. 
    Appetite. 2017
  • The challenges of collecting and using patient care data from diverse care systems: lessons From COMPASS. 
    American Journal of Medical Quality. 2017
  • Cross-sectional study of perceived neighborhood collective efficacy and risk of ADHD among a nationally-representative sample of children
    2016
  • Physical changes in the home environment to reduce television viewing and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among 5- to 12-year-old children: a randomized pilot study. 
    Pediatric Obesity. 2016
  • Awareness of breast density and its impact on breast cancer detection and risk. 
    Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2015
  • Describing the relationship between occupational and non-occupational physical activity using objective measurement. 
    Preventive medicine reports. 2015
  • Evaluating the structure of the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) survey from the patient's perspective. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 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
  • Mediation of weight loss and weight loss maintenance through dietary disinhibition and restraint
    2015
  • Objectively coding intervention fidelity during a phone-based obesity prevention study
    2015
  • Patient experience with care and clinical outcomes in diabetes: a case for more person-centered measurement
    2015
  • Pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention for parents of preschool children: a pilot study
    2015
  • The effect of achieving patient-reported outcome measures on satisfaction. 
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2015
  • A national survey of radiation oncologists and urologists on recommendations of prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer. 
    BJU International. 2014
  • Envelope type and response rates in a survey of health professionals
    2014
  • Misperceptions of weight status among adolescents: sociodemographic and behavioral correlates
    2014
  • Patterns of complementary and alternative medicine use in children with common neurological conditions
    2014
  • Perceptions of active surveillance and treatment recommendations for low-risk prostate cancer: results from a national survey of radiation oncologists and urologists. 
    Medical Care. 2014
  • Perceptions of radiation oncologists and urologists on sources and type of evidence to inform prostate cancer treatment decisions. 
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2014
  • Putting diabetes on the map: what does population health really look like at the local level?. 
    Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 2014
  • Specialty bias in treatment recommendations and quality of life among radiation oncologists and urologists for localized prostate cancer. 
    Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. 2014
  • Survey mode and asking about future intentions did not impact self-reported colorectal cancer screening accuracy. 
    BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2014
  • A brief Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) instrument to improve patient care. 
    PLoS Medicine. 2013
  • An assessment of incentive versus survey length trade-offs in a web survey of radiologists. 
    Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2013
  • Characteristics of exclusive users of mind-body medicine vs. other alternative medicine approaches in the United States
    2013
  • Clinical implementation of quality of life instruments and prediction tools for localized prostate cancer: results from a national survey of radiation oncologists and urologists. 
    Journal of Urology. 2013
  • Factors associated with decisions to step down asthma medications. 
    The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice. 2013
  • Is patient assessment of asthma care delivery associated with publicly reported performance measures?. 
    Journal of Asthma. 2013
  • Population-based trends in urinary diversion among patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. 
    BJU International. 2013
  • Potential bias in the bank: what distinguishes refusers, nonresponders and participants in a clinic-based biobank?. 
    Public health genomics. 2013
  • Self-report of hypoglycemia and health-related quality of life in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. 
    Endocrine Practice. 2013
  • Variation in treatment recommendations of adjuvant radiation therapy for high-risk prostate cancer by physician specialty. 
    Urology. 2013
  • Asthma expenditures in the United States comparing 2004 to 2006 and 1996 to 1998. 
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2012
  • Deployment of a mixed-mode data collection strategy does not reduce nonresponse bias in a general population health survey. 
    Health Services Research. 2012
  • Getting physicians to open the survey: little evidence that an envelope teaser increases response rates. 
    BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2012
  • Increased mortality of patients with diabetes reporting severe hypoglycemia. 
    Diabetes care. 2012
  • Patient characteristics of provider survey respondents: no evidence of nonresponse bias. 
    Evaluation and the Health Professions. 2012
  • Telephone follow-up to a mail survey: when to offer an interview compared to a reminder call. 
    BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2012
  • The impact of asthma medication guidelines on asthma controller use and on asthma exacerbation rates comparing 1997-1998 and 2004-2005. 
    Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. 2012
  • Offering results to participants in a diabetes survey: effects on survey response rates. 
    The patient. 2011
    • Conference Paper
  • Hearing the patient voice on pain management after dental extractions [poster: Dental Fear Pain and Anxiety session]
    2019
    • Conference Poster
  • Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among firefighters: application of the Health Belief Model [poster]
    2023
  • Developing a center for evaluation in a learning health system [poster]
    2019
  • Development of a patient-centered outcome measure for the elderly orthopaedic hip fracture patient [poster]
    2018
  • Highly motivated population provides two successful recruitment methods into the TMD self-care study and PACT program [poster]
    2018
  • Development of a patient-centered outcome measure for the elderly orthopaedic hip fracture patient [poster]
    2017
  • The dose of behavioral interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta-regression [poster]
    2017
  • Does parental concern about child weight predict change in child BMI percentile among children in an obesity prevention intervention [poster]?
    2016
  • Do parents choose the topics that matter: correlations of weight-related topics discussed during a tailored pediatric obesity prevention intervention [poster]
    2015
  • The utility of internet recruitment in achieving a representative patient sample: the BRINK Memory Study [poster]
    2013
    • Review
  • America's racial reckoning within perinatal communication: a rapid review using sociotechnical systems theory to compare publications before and after 2020 [review]. 
    Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2023
  • Leadership in practice-based research: the National Dental PBRN [review]. 
    Journal of Dentistry. 2019
  • The dose of behavioral interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta-regression [meta-analysis, review, systematic review]. 
    The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2017
  • Reporting of treatment fidelity in behavioural paediatric obesity intervention trials: a systematic review [review, systematic review]. 
    Obesity Reviews. 2016
    • Abstract
  • Self-reported efficacy and usage of cannabis among patients with cancer within the Minnesota Cannabis Program [abstract]. 
    Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2022
  • 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
  • Medication adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary data from the patient perspective [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • Systems mapping to understand colorectal cancer screening underutilization in an integrated health system: a valuable approach for learning health systems [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • Using implementation science to identify clinician-reported barriers to discussing safe fish consumption during routine prenatal care [abstract]. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • Early discharge with next day stress testing in low risk chest pain patients presenting to the emergency department is feasible [abstract]. 
    Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2015
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