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| Douglas H FernaldSummaryAffiliation: University of Colorado Denver Country: USA Publications
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Improving multiple health risk behaviors in primary care: lessons from the Prescription for Health Common Measures, Better Outcomes (COMBO) studyDouglas H Fernald
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 25:701-11. 2012....
A standardized reporting system for assessment of diverse public health programsDouglas Fernald
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 12631 E 17th Ave, Mail Stop F496, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 9:E147. 2012..Further refinements could enable wider dissemination of common reporting criteria and expectations...- An assessment of the Hawthorne Effect in practice-based researchDouglas H Fernald
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 25:83-6. 2012.... 
Overcoming early barriers to PCMH practice improvement in family medicine residenciesDouglas H Fernald
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Fam Med 43:503-9. 2011..Residency programs face inevitable challenges as they redesign their practices for higher quality care and resident training. Identifying and addressing early barriers can help align priorities and thereby augment the capacity to change...- Common measures, better outcomes (COMBO): a field test of brief health behavior measures in primary careDouglas H Fernald
Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S414-22. 2008..Practical tools are needed to routinely assess multiple health risk behaviors among diverse primary care patients. The performance of a brief set of behavioral measures used in primary care practice is reported here... - Practice-level approaches for behavioral counseling and patient health behaviorsBijal A Balasubramanian
Department of Family Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Somerset, New Jersey 08873, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S407-13. 2008.... - Personal health behaviors are associated with physical and mental unhealthy days: a Prescription for Health (P4H) practice-based research networks studyDesiree B Froshaug
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 22:368-74. 2009..Because unhealthy behaviors have been shown to predict premature mortality and quality of life is linked to chronic disease, it is plausible that there is a relationship between unhealthy behaviors and a patient's overall well-being... - Card studies for observational research in practiceJohn M Westfall
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Ann Fam Med 9:63-8. 2011..Card studies have been used to describe clinical problems, management, and outcomes in primary care for more than 30 years. In this article we describe 2 types of card studies and the methods for conducting them... - Prescription for health: changing primary care practice to foster healthy behaviorsMaribel Cifuentes
Prescription for Health National Program Office, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora 80045 0508, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:S4-11. 2005..We report lessons from 17 exploratory projects funded under Prescription for Health that tested the feasibility of innovative behavior change strategies for at least 2 of these behaviors in primary care practices... - Practical and relevant self-report measures of patient health behaviors for primary care researchRussell E Glasgow
Kaiser Permanente, Denver, CO, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:73-81. 2005..It then proposes pragmatic measures for use in practice-based research... - Underinsurance in primary care: a report from the State Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices and Partners (SNOCAP)Kenton Voorhees
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045 6508, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 21:309-16. 2008..This purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of underinsurance among patients seen in primary care clinics... - Enhance your team-based qualitative researchDouglas H Fernald
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver, Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:360-4. 2005..This article discusses teamwork issues and tools and techniques used to improve team-based qualitative research... - Health information exchange in small-to-medium sized family medicine practices: motivators, barriers, and potential facilitators of adoptionStephen E Ross
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA
Int J Med Inform 79:123-9. 2010..For small-to-medium sized primary care practices (those with 20 or fewer clinicians), determine desired functions of health information exchange (HIE) and potential motivators, barriers, and facilitators of adoption... - Issues and initiatives in the testing process in primary care physician officesJohn M Hickner
Department of Family Medicine, Division of Biological Sciences, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:81-9. 2005..These errors may result in significant harm to patients and lead to inefficient practice. Important issues are summarized for primary care clinicians and their offices toconsider in improving the management of the testing processes... - Harm resulting from inappropriate telephone triage in primary careDavid E Hildebrandt
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Fitzsimons, Aurora, CO, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 19:437-42. 2006..Our objective was to assess and categorize harm occurring to patients who called their physicians' office after-hours but did not have their call forwarded to the physician because they stated that their call was not an emergency... - Applied strategies for improving patient safety: a comprehensive process to improve care in rural and frontier communitiesJohn M Westfall
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
J Rural Health 20:355-62. 2004..Medical errors and patient safety have gained increasing attention throughout all areas of medical care. Understanding patient safety in rural settings is crucial for improving care in rural communities... - Event reporting to a primary care patient safety reporting system: a report from the ASIPS collaborativeDouglas H Fernald
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Ann Fam Med 2:327-32. 2004..We examined reports to a primary care, ambulatory, patient safety reporting system to describe types of errors reported and differences between anonymous and confidential reports...