Rossom, Rebecca C., MD, MS
Senior Investigator

Positions

Sr. Investigator, Center for Chronic Care Innovation
Sr. Investigator, Behavioral health

HealthPartners title: Geriatric psychiatrist

Academic appointment: Associate professor, University of Minnesota Medical School

Joined the Institute: 2011

Education and training: MD, University of Minnesota; Residency, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Geriatric psychiatry fellowship, University of Minnesota; MS, University of Minnesota.

Overview/research interests: Depression, suicide prevention, serious mental illness, chronic disease, opioid use disorder, aging and cognition.

Current research activities and funding:

Principal investigator on a National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded randomized controlled trial examining whether clinical decision support reduces cardiovascular risk in people with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia
Site principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health-funded large pragmatic trial examining two suicide-prevention programs
Co-lead on a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded feasibility study of a clinical decision support tool for primary care providers to screen, diagnose and treat opioid use disorder
Site principal investigator on an NIMH-funded study of treatment utilization before suicide
Site principal investigator for the NorthStar Node for the National Institute on Drug Abuse
Site principal investigator for an NIMH-funded study of a smartphone app aimed to help people with bipolar disorder recognize early symptoms of depression or mania
Site principal investigator on an NIMH-funded study to develop a population-based risk calculator for suicidal behavior
Co-investigator on the US Preventive Services Task Force Screening for Cognitive Impairment systematic review

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Publications

selected publications

Journal Article
- Association between suicide death and concordance with benzodiazepine treatment guidelines for anxiety and sleep disorders. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2020
- Chronic pain diagnoses and opioid dispensings among insured individuals with serious mental illness. BMC psychiatry. 2020
- Documented opioid use disorder and its treatment in primary care patients across six U.S. health systems. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2020
- Pragmatic trial design of an intervention to reduce cardiovascular risk in people with serious mental illness. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2020
- Prevalence and treatment of opioid use disorders among primary care patients in six health systems. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2020
- Substance use disorders and risk of suicide in a general US population: a case control study. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 2020
- A candidate gene study of risk for dementia in older, postmenopausal women: results from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2019
- Are wishes for death or suicidal ideation symptoms of depression in older adults? 2019
- Assessing and minimizing re-identification risk in research data derived from health care records. EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2019
- Association between suicide death and concordance with benzodiazepine treatment guidelines for anxiety and sleep disorders. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2019
- Diagnosed mental health conditions and risk of suicide mortality. Psychiatric Services. 2019
- Predicting suicide attempts for racial and ethnic groups of patients during routine clinical care. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 2019
- Principles and procedures for data and safety monitoring in pragmatic clinical trials. Trials. 2019
- Self-reported suicidal ideation as a predictor of suicidal behavior among outpatients with diagnoses of psychotic disorders. Psychiatric Services. 2019
- Variation in patterns of health care before suicide: a population case-control study. Preventive Medicine. 2019
- What health records data are required for accurate prediction of suicidal behavior?. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2019
- Dermatologic conditions and risk of suicide: a case-control study. Psychosomatics. 2018
- Does patient adherence to antidepressant medication actually vary between physicians?. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2018
- General medical, mental health, and demographic risk factors associated with suicide by firearm compared with other means. Psychiatric Services. 2018
- Large-scale implementation of collaborative care management for depression and diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2018
- Near real-time surveillance for consequences of health policies using sequential analysis. Medical Care. 2018
- Opioid use during pregnancy, observations of opioid use, and secular trend from 2006 to 2014 at HealthPartners Medical Group. Clinical Journal of Pain. 2018
- Predicting suicide attempts and suicide deaths following outpatient visits using electronic health records. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2018
- Prevalence and risk of severe cognitive impairment in advanced chronic kidney disease. Journals of Gerontology. Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 2018
- Treatment initiation for new episodes of depression in primary care settings. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2018
- Antidepressant use by youth with minimal or mild depression: evidence from 3 health systems 2017
- Between-visit changes in suicidal ideation and risk of subsequent suicide attempt. Depression and Anxiety. 2017
- Clinician burnout and satisfaction with resources in caring for complex patients. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2017
- Impact of a national collaborative care initiative for patients with depression and diabetes or cardiovascular disease. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2017
- IntelliCare: an eclectic, skills-based app suite for the treatment of depression and anxiety. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2017
- Major physical health conditions and risk of suicide. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2017
- Suicidal ideation reported on the PHQ9 and risk of suicidal behavior across age groups. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2017
- The impact of race and ethnicity on rates of return to psychotherapy for depression. Depression and Anxiety. 2017
- Understanding the experience of care managers and relationship with patient outcomes: the COMPASS initiative. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2017
- A statewide effort to implement collaborative care for depression: reach and impact for all patients with depression. Medical Care. 2016
- Adherence to common cardiovascular medications in patients with schizophrenia vs. patients without psychiatric illness. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2016
- Antidepressant adherence across diverse populations and healthcare settings. Depression and Anxiety. 2016
- Facilitating action for suicide prevention by learning health care systems. Psychiatric Services. 2016
- Population-based outreach versus care as usual to prevent suicide attempt: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2016
- Predictors of optimal cognitive aging in 80+ women: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study. Journals of Gerontology. Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 2016
- Predictors of poor response to depression treatment in primary care. Psychiatric Services. 2016
- Relationships between caffeine intake and risk for probable dementia or global cognitive impairment: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study. Journals of Gerontology. Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 2016
- Risk of suicide attempt and suicide death following completion of the Patient Health Questionnaire depression module in community practice. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2016
- The Brain in Kidney Disease (BRINK) Cohort Study: design and baseline cognitive function. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2016
- The effects of patient-centered depression care on patient satisfaction and depression remission. Family Practice. 2016
- A stepped-wedge evaluation of an initiative to spread the collaborative care model for depression in primary care. Annals of Family Medicine. 2015
- Adjusting antidepressant quality measures for race and ethnicity 2015
- Antidepressants are not overprescribed for mild depression. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2015
- High glycemic index diet as a risk factor for depression: analyses from the Women's Health Initiative. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2015
- Newly developed chronic conditions and changes in health-related quality of life in postmenopausal women. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2015
- Psychiatric comorbidity and 30-day readmissions after hospitalization for heart failure, AMI, and pneumonia. Psychiatric Services. 2015
- Racial/ethnic differences in health care visits made before suicide attempt across the United States. Medical Care. 2015
- Changes in antidepressant use by young people and suicidal behavior after FDA warnings and media coverage: quasi-experimental study. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2014
- Effective implementation of collaborative care for depression: what is needed?. American Journal of Managed Care. 2014
- Health care contacts in the year before suicide death. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2014
- The effect of depression treatment on work productivity. American Journal of Managed Care. 2014
- Influence of type 2 diabetes on brain volumes and changes in brain volumes: results from the Women's Health Initiative Magnetic Resonance Imaging studies. Diabetes care. 2013
- Response to Annweiler and Beauchet on: Calcium and vitamin d supplementation and cognitive impairment in the Women's Health Initiative. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2013
- Stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and mental health in hospice workers in Minnesota. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2013
- The DIAMOND initiative: implementing collaborative care for depression in 75 primary care clinics. Implementation science. 2013
- Association between serum 25(OH) vitamin D and the risk of cognitive decline in older women. Journals of Gerontology. Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 2012
- Calcium and vitamin D supplementation and cognitive impairment in the women's health initiative. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2012
- Are all commonly prescribed antipsychotics associated with greater mortality in elderly male veterans with dementia?. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2010
- Quality of sleep in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder 2010
Editorial Article
- Managing mental health disorders requires attending to both primary care and its specialty mental health collaborators [editorial]. Family Practice. 36. 2019
Chapter
- Health and well-being. Issue briefs to inform development and implementation of Healthy People 2030. 2018
Conference Poster
Report
Review
- Screening for cognitive impairment in older adults: updated evidence report and systematic review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [systematic review]. JAMA. 2020
- The role of the patient-centered medical home in treating depression [review]. Current psychiatry reports. 2020
- Priorities Wizard: multisite web-based primary care clinical decision support improved chronic care outcomes with high use rates and high clinician satisfaction rates [review]. EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2019
- Primary care screening for and treatment of depression in pregnant and postpartum women: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [review article]. JAMA. 2016
- Screening for cognitive impairment in older adults: a systematic review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [review, systematic review]. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2013
- Use of antipsychotic medications in pediatric populations: what do the data say [review]?. Current psychiatry reports. 2013
Abstract
- 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
- Variation in care improvement opportunities suggests need for tailored clinician-specific improvement interventions [abstract]. Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2019
- Opioid prescribing during pregnancy: eight-year secular trends at HealthPartners Medical Group [abstract]. Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2017
- Antidepressant adherence across diverse populations and health care settings [abstract]. Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
- Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients receiving opioid therapy during pregnancy [abstract]. Pharmacotherapy. 2016
- Integrating technology into mental health intervention trials [abstract]. Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
- A candidate gene study of genetic risk for dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in women aged >65 years: results from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS) [abstract]. Alzheimer's & dementia. 2014

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