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Hormone use and patient concerns after the findings of the Women's Health InitiativeSharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Menopause 12:399-404. 2005..To assess behaviors and concerns related to hormone therapy after the findings of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI)...
How acceptable are financial incentives and written feedback for improving hypertension control? Perspectives from physicians, clinic administrators, and patientsSharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Manag Care 8:441-7. 2002..To assess attitudes of physicians, clinic administrators, and patients within a health maintenance organization (HMO) toward using financial incentives to improve the control of hypertension...
Pain management in the last six months of life among women who died of ovarian cancerSharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 33:24-31. 2007..Our finding that only 54% of women with pain were given high intensity medication near death indicates room for improvement in the care of ovarian cancer patients at the end of life...
Provider management of menopause after the findings of the Women's Health InitiativeSharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Menopause 14:441-9. 2007..A survey was conducted to determine current provider behaviors and concerns related to menopause management...
Barriers in identification and referral to genetic counseling for familial cancer risk: the perspective of genetic service providersSharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
J Genet Couns 20:314-22. 2011..Our survey adds the genetic service providers' perspective and identifies areas of opportunity for further research and intervention as few of the perceived barriers are being addressed through current educational efforts...
What women wish they knew before prophylactic mastectomySharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Cancer Nurs 30:285-91; quiz 292-3. 2007..Clinicians and health educators should be aware of patient needs and must counsel women accordingly...
Impact of chemotherapy in women with metastatic breast cancer diagnosed 1990-2003Daniel M Anderson
Department of Hematology Oncology, Regions Hospital, St Paul, MN 55101, USA
Clin Breast Cancer 7:801-3. 2007..Paul metropolitan area between 1990 and 2003...
Optimizing practice through research: a new perspective to solve an old problemThomas E Kottke
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1524, USA
Ann Fam Med 6:459-62. 2008....
Focus groups inform a web-based program to increase fruit and vegetable intakeSharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Patient Educ Couns 77:314-8. 2009..To use focus groups to inform a web-based educational intervention for increased fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption...
Development, implementation and evaluation of an electronic medical record prompt for bone density testingSharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Health Informatics J 15:296-304. 2009..Electronic prompts seem beneficial in theory; however, putting them into practice has challenges. While the EMR has great potential to improve care, more needs to be done to ensure optimal use...
Social support among women who died of ovarian cancerJody M Jackson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Support Care Cancer 15:547-56. 2007..We investigated the effects of social support in the last 6 months of life for women who died of ovarian cancer...
Geriatric depression, antidepressant treatment, and healthcare utilization in a health maintenance organizationLucy Rose Fischer
HealthPartners Research Foundation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55440, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:307-12. 2002..To assess the separate effects of depressive symptoms and antidepressant treatment on healthcare utilization and cost...
Identification of children with special health care needs within a managed care settingSharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Bloomington, Minn, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:273-8. 2003..To assess 2 established methods of identifying children with special health care needs (CSHCN) within a health plan population for intensified service coordination...
Comparing breast cancer case identification using HMO computerized diagnostic data and SEER dataSharon J Rolnick
HealthPartners Research Foundation, PO Box 1524, MS 21111R, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:257-62. 2004..To determine the sensitivity and positive predictive value (PPV) of computerized diagnostic data from health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in identifying incident breast cancer cases...
Smoking cessation attempts in relation to prior health care charges: the effect of antecedent smoking-related symptoms?Brian C Martinson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8100 34th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:125-32. 2003..We hypothesize that elevated charges among former smokers reflect differential cessation of sicker individuals. We ascertained the relationship between prior health care charges and time to smoking cessation...
Knowledge, attitudes, and preferences regarding advance directives among patients of a managed care organizationJody M Jackson
HealthPartners Research Foundation, PO Box 1524, MS 21111R, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Manag Care 15:177-86. 2009..To examine attitudes, experiences, and preferences regarding advance directives (ADs) among adults of all ages...
Self-reported hypertension treatment beliefs and practices of primary care physicians in a managed care organizationKaren L Margolis
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Am J Hypertens 18:566-71. 2005..Blood pressure (BP) is controlled to recommended goal in less than one-third of people with hypertension. There has been little recent research on physician beliefs and practices with regard to the treatment of hypertension...
Quality of life after bilateral prophylactic mastectomyAnn M Geiger
Research and Evaluation Department, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, California 91188, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 14:686-94. 2007..Bilateral prophylactic mastectomy in women with increased breast cancer risk dramatically reduces breast cancer occurrence but little is known about psychosocial outcomes...
Outpatient use of cardiovascular drugs during pregnancySusan E Andrade
Meyers Primary Care Institute University of Massachusetts Medical School, Fallon Foundation, and Fallon Community Health Plan, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 17:240-7. 2008..To provide information on the prevalence of use of cardiovascular drugs, some of which may have fetotoxic or teratogenic effects, in the outpatient setting among pregnant women in the United States...
Positive, negative, and disparate--women's differing long-term psychosocial experiences of bilateral or contralateral prophylactic mastectomyAndrea Altschuler
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Breast J 14:25-32. 2008..This dichotomy could be an important factor to discuss in counseling women considering the procedure...
Use of antidepressant medications during pregnancy: a multisite studySusan E Andrade
Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 198:194.e1-5. 2008..This study was undertaken to provide information on the prevalence of use of antidepressant drugs among pregnant women in the United States...
Complications at the end of life in ovarian cancerLisa J Herrinton
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California 94612, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 34:237-43. 2007..71, 95% confidence interval=0.53, 0.94, P for trend=0.02). The study, which preceded the establishment of palliative care programs, suggests that care given to ovarian cancer patients at the end of life may be inadequate...
Impact of IRB requirements on a multicenter survey of prophylactic mastectomy outcomesSarah M Greene
Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Ann Epidemiol 16:275-8. 2006..This study assesses the variability in requirements among six institutional review boards (IRBs) and the resulting protocol variations for a multicenter mailed survey...
Contentment with quality of life among breast cancer survivors with and without contralateral prophylactic mastectomyAnn M Geiger
Research and Evaluation Department, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:1350-6. 2006..To understand psychosocial outcomes after prophylactic removal of the contralateral breast in women with unilateral breast cancer...
Patterns and predictors of mammography utilization among breast cancer survivorsChyke A Doubeni
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
Cancer 106:2482-8. 2006..Improvements in cancer detection and treatment have resulted in increasing numbers of breast cancer survivors. Information regarding the use of mammography by breast cancer survivors is limited...
Cardiology clinical trial participation in community-based healthcare systems: obstacles and opportunitiesCarol P Somkin
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 29:646-53. 2008..Community-based health systems could be an important source of participants and investigators, but little is known about community cardiologists' experiences with trials...
Survivorship research based in integrated healthcare delivery systems: the Cancer Research NetworkAnn M Geiger
Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Cancer 112:2617-26. 2008..The National Cancer Institute funds the Cancer Research Network (CRN) to leverage these capabilities for all types of cancer research, including survivorship...
Specificity of clinical breast examination in community practiceJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:332-7. 2007....
