Jeanette Y. Ziegenfuss, PhD
Director of Survey and Evaluation Sciences, Center for Evaluation and Survey Research
About

Joined the Institute: 2012

Education and training: PhD, health services research, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Overview/research interests: Survey research methodology, data collection, recruitment methods, health services research, evaluation, population health and access to care.

Current research activities and funding:

  • Lead on 20+ projects currently implemented through the Center for Survey and Evaluation Research
  • Institute Data Coordinating Center leader
  • PI on a study investigating cost and quality trade-offs in a survey HealthPartners patients and members
  • PI on a study partnering with the Minnesota Department of Health on optimal messaging strategies to increase safe fish consumption
  • Co-I participating in a number of studies as the survey methodologist responsible for survey design and implementation
Affiliation
positions
  • Director of Survey and Evaluation Science, Center for Evaluation and Survey Research
    • Publications While At Healthpartners
    selected publications
    Journal Article
  • Inequalities in communicating about nutrition information during prenatal care: the after-visit summary. 
    American journal of health education. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Responses to a social media campaign promoting safe fish consumption among women. 
    Preventing Chronic Disease. 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 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
  • 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
  • Understanding primary care provider attitudes and behaviors regarding cardiovascular disease risk and diabetes prevention in the northern midwest. 
    Clinical Diabetes. 2018
  • 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
  • Patient-centered outcomes measurement: does it require information from patients?. 
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 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
  • Awareness of breast density and its impact on breast cancer detection and risk. 
    Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2015
  • Evaluating the structure of the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) survey from the patient's perspective. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2015
  • It is time to ask patients what outcomes are important to them
    2015
  • Patient experience with care and clinical outcomes in diabetes: a case for more person-centered measurement
    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 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
    • 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
    • presentations
    Presentation
  • A multimodal exploration of geospatial proximity and survey participation [presentation], International Field Directors and Technologies Conference (IFD&TC)
  • Cost and quality trade-offs in a well-being survey of HealthPartners patient members [presentation]
  • Cost and quality trade-offs in a well-being survey of HealthPartners patient members [presentation], American Association for Public Opinion Research 70th Annual Conference
  • Embedding evaluation in the healthcare system [presentation]
  • From basic science to business intelligence: how survey paradata can inform strategy and operations [presentation], International Field Directors and Technologies Conference (IFD&TC)
  • Iterative design and embedding research into operational survey of health and well being [presentation], International Field Directors & Technology Conference (IFD&TC)
  • Mapping diabetes in Minnesota: a new web tool for population health research [presentation], Mayo Clinic Health System Practice-Based Research Annual Conference
  • More harm than good? An experimental approach to examining the value of evening and weekend calls [presentation], American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference
  • Now that you've completed this survey, can we look at your health records? An examination of agreement to link health records after survey completion [presentation], American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference
  • Seasonal variation and nonresponse bias in a population survey of health and well being [presentation]
  • The use of REDCap in a small, non-academic survey research center [presentation], International Field Directors & Technologies 2016 Conference
  • Transformative self-management for chronic pain utilizing online training and telehealth coaching [presentation], Health Care Systems Research Conference
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