Center for Evaluation and Survey Research

About

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

Dinh, Jennifer M., MPH, Evaluation & Survey Project Manager

Henderson, Maren S. G., MPP, Evaluation & Survey Scientist I

Publications While At HealthPartners

selected publications

Journal Article

A pragmatic intervention to increase screening of high-risk individuals for diabetic retinopathy.

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2026

Accuracy of patient, care partner, and clinician health care contact day recall.

The oncologist. 2026

An overview of estimating the value of worksite health promotion programs.

ACSMs Health Fitness J. 2026

Classification and regression tree analysis to understand theory-aligned barriers to glucose self-monitoring behaviors among insulin-using type 2 diabetes patients without continuous glucose monitors.

Journal of Health Psychology. 2026

Creating a coordinated complex outpatient antibiotic therapy program to improve outcomes and reduce costs in a multihospital system.

NEJM Catal Innov Care Deliv. 2026

From 'a normal part of aging' to 'an explanation for my symptoms': insights from patient-care partner dyad interviews about the cognitive impairment diagnosis process in primary care.

Research on Aging. 2026

Glycaemic metrics improve significantly within 7 days of continuous glucose monitoring initiation in non-insulin-using people with type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism. 2026

Impact of envelope teaser on mail and web research survey response rates and representation.

BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2026

Mixed-methods evaluation to identify factors influencing high-value surgeon decisions in orthopedics: an example in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2026

Multiple sclerosis in the All of Us Research Program: prevalence and associated demographic and geographic characteristics.

Multiple sclerosis and related disorders. 2026

Patient, care partner, and oncologist perspectives on clinically important survival thresholds after considering time toxicity in advanced cancer.

The oncologist. 2026

Provider perspectives to inform a patient-facing decision aid on oral corticosteroid use during pregnancy and evaluation of the aid.

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2026

Reflections on methodological approaches to dyad interviews with patients with cognitive impairment and their care partners.

Qualitative Health Research. 2026

Teen Leadership Council: a case study for teen engagement in health care planning.

American Journal of Health Promotion. 2026

The glucose monitoring comparison in primary care study (GluCoCare): study design, methods, recruitment success, and baseline characteristics of study participants.

Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2026

Using Nutrition to Improve Time in rangE (UNITE): a randomized clinical trial with continuous glucose monitoring in people with type 2 diabetes not taking insulin.

Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2026

"Now I can see it works!" Perspectives on using a nutrition-focused approach when initiating continuous glucose monitoring in people with type 2 diabetes: qualitative interview study.

JMIR diabetes. 2025

A nutrition-focused approach during continuous glucose monitoring initiation in people with type 2 diabetes: using a theoretical framework to unite continuous glucose monitoring and food choices.

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. 2025

A randomized study comparing patient portal and email communications for trial recruitment.

Clinical Trials (London, England). 2025

Association of financial wellness with patterns of medical cannabis use and patient-reported outcomes in adults with cancer.

Cannabis (Research Society on Marijuana). 2025

Blood pressure medication side effect symptoms and patient treatment satisfaction and adherence.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2025

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake among firefighters: an application of the Health Belief Model.

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2025

Care coordination in primary care: views of clinicians and clinic leaders.

Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2025

Care coordination: how is it implemented and is it different if a social worker is on the team?.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2025

Design and protocol of a pragmatic clinical trial to improve cognitive impairment detection in primary care.

Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2025

Development of a stakeholder-engaged tool to evaluate community convening and promote community health.

Journal of communication in healthcare. 2025

Effects of continuous glucose monitoring discontinuation in adults with type 2 diabetes not using insulin.

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. 2025

Exposure to clinical decision support and training increases primary care clinician confidence in managing cognitive impairment care but not confidence to diagnose.

BMC Prim Care. 2025

Gestational vitamin D concentration and child cognitive development: a longitudinal cohort study in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2025

New shine on an old habit: a pilot study on a glow soap faucet system.

Journal of Hospital Infection. 2025

The association of prenatal dietary factors with child autism diagnosis and autism-related traits using a mixtures approach: results from the environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort.

Journal of Nutrition. 2025

The effect of individualized surgeon comparative feedback on arthroplasty outcomes: an interrupted time series analysis.

American Journal of Medical Quality. 2025

Uncovering four types of care coordination in primary care.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2025

"I'm torn": qualitative analysis of dental practitioner-perceived barriers, facilitators, and solutions to HPV vaccine promotion.

Healthcare. 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

Data quality in a survey of registered medical cannabis users with cancer: nonresponse and measurement error.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs. 2024

Don't say "beans" when promoting plant protein to family meal planners.

American Journal of Health Promotion. 2024

In their own words: content analysis of open-ended survey responses for a more nuanced, local understanding of mental illness stigma.

Issues in Mental Health Nursing. 2024

Patient experiences and perceptions of care coordination in primary care.

Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2024

Qualitative interviews to add patient perspectives in colorectal cancer screening: improvements in a learning health system.

Journal of Cancer Education. 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

The role of care coordination: a qualitative study of care coordinator perceptions.

Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2024

Care coordination in primary care: mapping the territory.

American Journal of Managed Care. 2023

Caregivers’ reports of the complex impacts of the pandemic on family food and physical activity behaviors by race, ethnicity, urbanicity, and income.

American journal of health education. 2023

Inequalities in communicating about nutrition information during prenatal care: the after-visit summary.

American journal of health education. 2023

Is there room for individual patient-specified preferences in the patient-reported outcome measurement revolution?.

Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 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

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

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

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

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.

Field Methods. 2014

Misperceptions of weight status among adolescents: sociodemographic and behavioral correlates.

Patient related outcome measures. 2014

Patterns of complementary and alternative medicine use in children with common neurological conditions.

Global advances in health and medicine. 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 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

Hearing the patient voice on pain management after dental extractions [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

Depression and anxiety among K-12 teachers in the United States: a systematic review [systematic review].

School psychology (Washington, D.C.). 2025

Evidence to support health system prioritization of health behaviors in the COVID-19 era [review].

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. 2024

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

Comparing telehealth and clinic-based care for lowering uncontrolled high blood pressure [review]

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

Cannabis use for cancer-related symptoms in rural versus urban Minnesota [abstract].

Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2024

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].