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| JoAnn M Sperl-HillenSummaryAffiliation: HealthPartners Research Foundation Country: USA Publications
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Improving diabetes care in a large health care system: an enhanced primary care approachJ Sperl-Hillen
Diabetes Care Improvement Project, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 26:615-22. 2000..The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a multifaceted improvement strategy on diabetes quality of care in a defined population of patients...
Comparative effectiveness of patient education methods for type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trialJoAnn Sperl-Hillen
HealthPartners Research Foundation and HealthPartners Medical Group, Minneapolis, MN 55440, USA
Arch Intern Med 171:2001-10. 2011..Group education for patients with suboptimally controlled diabetes has not been rigorously studied...
Do all components of the chronic care model contribute equally to quality improvement?JoAnn M Sperl-Hillen
HealthPartners Medical Group and HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 30:303-9. 2004....
Simulated physician learning program improves glucose control in adults with diabetesJoAnn M Sperl-Hillen
HealthPartners Research Foundation and HealthPartners Medical Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Diabetes Care 33:1727-33. 2010..Our objective was to assess the impact of an individualized simulated learning intervention on diabetes care provided by PCPs...
The effect of advanced access implementation on quality of diabetes careJoAnn M Sperl-Hillen
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 5:A16. 2008..The study analyzes the effect of an advanced access program on quality of diabetes care...
Care quality and implementation of the chronic care model: a quantitative studyLeif I Solberg
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55245, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:310-6. 2006..We wanted to test whether improvements in care quality were correlated with changes in the Chronic Care Model (CCM) in a large medical group that attempted to implement the CCM...
Key issues in transforming health care organizations for quality: the case of advanced accessLeif I Solberg
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 30:15-24. 2004..S. health care system. This rigorous qualitative evaluation of transformational change for patient access in one large multispecialty group practice identifies the major issues facing organizations addressing the IOM challenge...
Ambulatory care quality measures for the 6 aims from administrative dataLeif I Solberg
Care Improvement Research, HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440, USA
Am J Med Qual 21:310-6. 2006..They have been successfully used to describe care quality changes for these patients over time. This starter set for the 6 IOM aims should be tested and expanded by others...
Simulated physician learning intervention to improve safety and quality of diabetes care: a randomized trialPATRICK J O'CONNOR
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Diabetes Care 32:585-90. 2009..To assess two physician learning interventions designed to improve safety and quality of diabetes care delivered by primary care physicians (PCPs)...
Effect of improved primary care access on quality of depression careLeif I Solberg
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minn 55440 1524, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:69-74. 2006..We wanted to determine whether a major improvement in access to primary care during 2000 was associated with changes in the quality of care for patients with depression...
Transforming medical care: case study of an exemplary, small medical groupLeif I Solberg
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minn 55440 1524, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:109-16. 2006..We studied one such group to determine the organizational and cultural attributes that seem related to its achievements in care quality...
Is patient readiness to change a predictor of improved glycemic control?PATRICK J O'CONNOR
HealthPartners Research Foundation, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Diabetes Care 27:2325-9. 2004..To test the hypothesis that patient readiness to change (RTC) predicts future changes in glycemic control in adults with diabetes...
Are claims data accurate enough to identify patients for performance measures or quality improvement? The case of diabetes, heart disease, and depressionLeif I Solberg
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440, USA
Am J Med Qual 21:238-45. 2006..97, 0.95, and 0.95. This approach is feasible and necessary for those wanting to use administrative data for case identification for performance measurement or quality improvement...
Impact of electronic health record clinical decision support on diabetes care: a randomized trialPATRICK J O'CONNOR
Health Partners Medical Group, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ann Fam Med 9:12-21. 2011....
Does improved access to care affect utilization and costs for patients with chronic conditions?Leif I Solberg
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:717-22. 2004....
Impact of an electronic medical record on diabetes quality of carePATRICK J O'CONNOR
HealthPartners Medical Group and HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:300-6. 2005..This study was designed to evaluate the impact of electronic medical record (EMR) implementation on quality of diabetes care...
Challenges of change: a qualitative study of chronic care model implementationMary C Hroscikoski
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1524, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:317-26. 2006..One large health care organization that tried to implement the CCM in primary care provided an opportunity to study these issues...
Design and rationale for Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring and Case Management to Control Hypertension (HyperLink): a cluster randomized trialKaren L Margolis
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 33:794-803. 2012..S., yet BP is controlled in fewer than half. Practical, robust and sustainable models are needed to improve BP in patients with uncontrolled hypertension...
Randomized trial of quality improvement intervention to improve diabetes care in primary care settingsPATRICK J O'CONNOR
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Diabetes Care 28:1890-7. 2005..To assess the impact of a quality improvement (QI) intervention on the quality of diabetes care at primary care clinics...
Adherence to blood pressure telemonitoring in a cluster-randomized clinical trialTessa J Kerby
HealthPartners, Health Improvementthe HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 14:668-74. 2012..The findings from this analysis indicate that hypertensive patients in this study were able to achieve and maintain high adherence to both the telemonitoring and the phone case management visits...
Increasing primary care physician productivity: A case studySteven Lewandowski
HealthPartners Research Foundation, 8100 34th Ave S, MC 21111R, Minneapolis, MN 55440-1524, USA
Am J Manag Care 12:573-6. 2006..Advanced access and productivity-based pay may be effective ways to address the challenges of timeliness, efficiency, and patient centeredness identified by the Institute of Medicine...
Effect of intensive versus standard blood pressure control on depression and health-related quality of life in type 2 diabetes: the ACCORD trialPATRICK J O'CONNOR
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Diabetes Care 35:1479-81. 2012..We tested the hypothesis that intensive (systolic blood pressure [SBP] <120 mmHg) rather than standard (SBP 130-139 mmHg) blood pressure (BP) control improves health-related quality of life (HRQL) in those with type 2 diabetes...
Factors driving diabetes care improvement in a large medical group: ten years of progressJoAnn M Sperl-Hillen
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Am J Manag Care 11:S177-85. 2005..Strategies for diabetes improvement need to be customized to address documented gaps in quality of care, provider prescribing behaviors, and patient characteristics...
How to avoid errors in diabetes careJoAnn M Sperl-Hillen
Diabetes Self Manag 24:29-30, 32-4. 2007
Making improvements in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes: a possible role for the control of variation in glycated hemoglobinPeter J Veazie
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 644, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Med Hypotheses 64:792-801. 2005....
