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Provider workload and quality of care in primary care settings: moderating role of relational climateDavid C Mohr
Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Med Care 51:108-14. 2013..Findings highlight the importance of relational climate as an important teamwork factor when managing and developing clinic policies, practices, and procedures in resource-constrained settings...
Slack resources and quality of primary careDavid C Mohr
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
Med Care 50:203-9. 2012....
The influence of teamwork culture on physician and nurse resignation rates in hospitalsDavid C Mohr
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Health Serv Manage Res 21:23-31. 2008..In conclusion, these results suggest that developing and emphasizing a teamwork culture may facilitate greater retention of health-care employees, especially nurses...
Job satisfaction of primary care team members and quality of careDavid C Mohr
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02062, USA
Am J Med Qual 26:18-25. 2011..Team-level job satisfaction ratings are a potentially important marker for the effectiveness of primary care teams in managing patient care...
Assault rates and implementation of a workplace violence prevention program in the Veterans Health Care AdministrationDavid C Mohr
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Occup Environ Med 53:511-6. 2011..This study examined the relationship between changes in assault rates over time and the implementation of a workplace violence prevention (WVP) program in 138 Department of Veterans Affairs health care facilities...
Job characteristics and job satisfaction among physicians involved with research in the veterans health administrationDavid C Mohr
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, MA 02130, USA
Acad Med 86:938-45. 2011..This study examined whether physicians who are involved with research have greater job satisfaction and more positive job characteristics perceptions...
Accounting for variation in technical quality and patient satisfaction: the contribution of patient, provider, team, and medical centerKelly L Stolzmann
VA Boston Healthcare System, Center for Organization, Leadership, and Management Research COLMR, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Med Care 48:676-82. 2010..We analyzed the amount of variation in technical quality and patient satisfaction accounted for at the patient, provider, team, and medical center level...
The relationship between organizational climate and quality of chronic disease managementJustin K Benzer
Center for Organization, Leadership, and Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Health Serv Res 46:691-711. 2011..To test the utility of a two-dimensional model of organizational climate for explaining variation in diabetes care between primary care clinics...
Teamwork culture and patient satisfaction in hospitalsMark Meterko
Management Decision and Research Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 42:492-8. 2004....
Team effectiveness and organizational context in the implementation of a clinical innovationCarol VanDeusen Lukas
Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 18:25-39. 2009..The study examined the relationship between care delivery team effectiveness, management support, organizational culture, and the extent of implementation of a clinical innovation...
Therapeutic alliance mediates the relationship between interpersonal problems and depression outcome in a cohort of multiple sclerosis patientsIsa Howard
San Francisco Veteran s Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA
J Clin Psychol 62:1197-204. 2006..The IIP-C significantly predicted Week 16 BDI and the WAI-C at 4 weeks. When controlling for the WAI-C, the relationship between the IIP-C and BDI was no longer significant, supporting the mediational hypothesis...
Grounded theory of barriers and facilitators to mandated implementation of mental health care in the primary care settingJustin K Benzer
Center for Organization, Leadership, and Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Depress Res Treat 2012:597157. 2012..This framework provides a nuanced understanding of the potential barriers and facilitators to implementing interventions designed to improve coordination between professional groups...
Psychiatrists' self-reported adherence to evidence-based prescribing practices in the treatment of schizophreniaGary J Young
Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Psychiatr Serv 57:130-2. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: This study identified several characteristics of psychiatrists that may affect their adherence to evidence-based prescribing practices for patients with schizophrenia...
Treatment for depression and its relationship to improvement in quality of life and psychological well-being in multiple sclerosis patientsStacey Hart
University of California, San Francisco, VA Medical Center, CA 94121, USA
Qual Life Res 14:695-703. 2005..001), and self-acceptance (R2 = 0.26, p < 0.001). Findings suggest treating depression influences both the negative and positive aspects of QOL and underscore the importance of examining QOL with two complementary approaches...
Cognitive predictors of response to treatment for depression in multiple sclerosisLaura J Julian
Department of Medicine, University of California, CA, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 18:356-63. 2006..These results provide preliminary evidence to suggest that performance on neuropsychological measures may predict antidepressant treatment response in multiple sclerosis...
The validity of Beck Depression Inventory and Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression items in the assessment of depression among patients with multiple sclerosisPatricia J Moran
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 1726, USA
J Behav Med 28:35-41. 2005..Thus, the present data support the inclusion of all BDI items when measuring depression in MS. Decisions on whether or not to use all HRSD items or only the 12 shown here to capture depression may depend on the study purpose and design...
Social support as a buffer in the relationship between treatment for depression and T-cell production of interferon gamma in patients with multiple sclerosisDavid C Mohr
Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, and VA Medical Center, University of California San Francisco, 4150 Clement Street 116 A, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
J Psychosom Res 57:155-8. 2004..This study examined the buffering effects of social support on the relationship between depression and autoaggressive immune function in multiple sclerosis (MS)...
Association between stressful life events and exacerbation in multiple sclerosis: a meta-analysisDavid C Mohr
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94142, USA
BMJ 328:731. 2004..To quantify the association between stressful life events and exacerbations of multiple sclerosis...
Personality trait inferences about organizations: development of a measure and assessment of construct validityJerel E Slaughter
Department of Management and Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Appl Psychol 89:85-103. 2004..Finally, results of a 4th study suggest that the measure is sensitive to experimental manipulations of organizational descriptions. Implications and suggestions for the use of this measure in future research are discussed...
Brain lesion volume and neuropsychological function predict efficacy of treatment for depression in multiple sclerosisDavid C Mohr
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 71:1017-24. 2003..22, p=.005), lesion volume in many discrete areas, and neuropsychological functioning (R2=.29, p=.0009). The effect of total lesion volume on 6-month follow-up BDI results was fully mediated by neuropsychological function...
Familiarity, ambivalence, and firm reputation: is corporate fame a double-edged sword?Margaret E Brooks
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA
J Appl Psychol 88:904-14. 2003..The notion that people can simultaneously hold contradictory images of well-known firms may help to explain the inconsistent findings on the relation between familiarity and reputation...
Couples therapy at end of lifeDavid C Mohr
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Psychooncology 12:620-7. 2003..While the size of the study precludes generalizing these findings to a larger population, this study supports further exploration of couples therapy as a potentially useful adjunct to end of life care...
Effects of treatment for depression on fatigue in multiple sclerosisDavid C Mohr
University of California, San Francisco, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94121, USA
Psychosom Med 65:542-7. 2003..The goal of this study was to examine the effects of treatment for depression on fatigue in MS...
Relationships among depressive symptoms, benefit-finding, optimism, and positive affect in multiple sclerosis patients after psychotherapy for depressionStacey L Hart
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Psychol 27:230-8. 2008....
Self-injection anxiety training: a treatment for patients unable to self-inject injectable medicationsDavid C Mohr
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Mult Scler 11:182-5. 2005..058). These findings suggest that SIAT is a potentially valuable intervention to teach self-injection skills to injection phobic and anxious patients, and should be investigated more thoroughly in a larger clinical trial...
A temporal framework for understanding the effects of stressful life events on inflammation in patients with multiple sclerosisDavid C Mohr
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA
Brain Behav Immun 20:27-36. 2006..These three hypotheses are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Data on psychosocial mediators and moderators are also briefly reviewed and future research directions are discussed...
Telephone-administered psychotherapy for depressionDavid C Mohr
Veterans Administration Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco 94121, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:1007-14. 2005..No study has examined if the skills-training component to T-CBT provides any benefit beyond that provided by nonspecific factors...
The role of stress-response systems for the pathogenesis and progression of MSStefan M Gold
Multiple Sclerosis Program, Department of Neurology and Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, NRB1 (Rm 479, 635 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Trends Immunol 26:644-52. 2005..Here, we integrate findings from molecular, cellular, experimental, clinical and epidemiological research to describe the involvement of stress response systems in MS pathogenesis and progression...
A preliminary report on a skills-based telephone-administered peer support programme for patients with multiple sclerosisDavid C Mohr
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Mult Scler 11:222-6. 2005..Peer-support interventions for MS generally provide support but no skills training. The aim of this study was to evaluate a brief telephone-administered skills-training model of peer-support for patients with MS...
Barriers to psychotherapy among depressed and nondepressed primary care patientsDavid C Mohr
University of California, Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Ann Behav Med 32:254-8. 2006..However, when referrals for psychotherapy are made, only 20% ever follow up, and of these, half drop out of treatment. This suggests that there are substantial barriers to accessing psychotherapy...
Stress and multiple sclerosisDavid C Mohr
Dept of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 680 N Lakeshore Drive, Suite 1220, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
J Neurol 254:II65-8. 2007..It is argued that a purely causal relationship, in which stressful events alone trigger exacerbation, is unlikely. Rather, we propose that stress may be one factor among many that influence risk of exacerbation...
Alliance in two telephone-administered treatments: relationship with depression and health outcomesVictoria Beckner
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:508-12. 2007..The findings suggest that the therapist-client relationship is important to improvement in telephone therapy and that the role of alliance in outcome may vary by treatment approach...
Reduction in disability in a randomized controlled trial of telephone-administered cognitive-behavioral therapyDavid C Mohr
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, USA
Health Psychol 26:554-63. 2007..This is a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial; the primary outcome results for depression are reported in D. C. Mohr, S. L. Hart, L. Julian, C. Catledge, L. Honos-Webb, L. Vella, et al. (2005)...
Teaching patients to self-inject: pilot study of a treatment for injection anxiety and phobia in multiple sclerosis patients prescribed injectable medicationsDavid C Mohr
Veterans Administration Medical Ctr, University of California, San Francisco 94131, USA
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 33:39-47. 2002..Seven of the eight patients continued to self-inject at 3-month follow-up. Patients showed significant improvements in self-injection self-efficacy and injection anxiety...
