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, Rachel L., MPH, Evaluation & Survey Statistician 2019 -
selected publications 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 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 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 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