abbreviation
- CESR
Center for Evaluation and Survey Research
Centers & Portfolios
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.
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Overview
Affiliation
people
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Faculty Position
- JaKa, Meghan M., PhD, Senior Evaluation Scientist 2018 -
- Ziegenfuss, Jeanette Y., PhD , Director of Survey and Evaluation Science
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Position
- Alch, Samantha R., MPH, Former Evaluation & Survey Coordinator
- Dinh, Jennifer M., MPH, Evaluation & Survey Project Manager
- Rivard, Rachel L., MPH, Evaluation & Survey Statistician 2019 -
Publications
selected publications
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Journal Article
- 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
- 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
- Making sense of diabetes medication decisions: a mixed methods cluster randomized trial using a conversation aid intervention. Endocrine. 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
- 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
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Conference Poster
- 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
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Review
- 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
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Abstract
- 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