Electronic health record challenges, workarounds, and solutions observed in practices integrating behavioral health and primary care

M Cifuentes, M Davis, D Fernald… - The Journal of the …, 2015 - Am Board Family Med
Purpose: This article describes the electronic health record (EHR)-related experiences of
practices striving to integrate behavioral health and primary care using tailored, evidenced-…

Practical and relevant self-report measures of patient health behaviors for primary care research

…, MG Ory, LM Klesges, M Cifuentes… - The Annals of Family …, 2005 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE With increasing evidence for the value of behavior change counseling, there is a
need for health behavior measurements that can be implemented in primary care research. …

Using the health literacy universal precautions toolkit to improve the quality of patient materials

…, J Barnard, NM Mabachi, M Cifuentes… - Journal of health …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Patient materials are often written above the reading level of most adults. Tool 11 of the
Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit (“Design Easy-to-Read Material”) provides …

Prescription for health: changing primary care practice to foster healthy behaviors

M Cifuentes, DH Fernald, LA Green… - The Annals of Family …, 2005 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE The leading causes of premature death in the United States are linked to 4
behaviors: smoking, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and risky alcohol use. We report lessons …

An electronic practice-based network for observational comparative effectiveness research

WD Pace, M Cifuentes, RJ Valuck… - Annals of internal …, 2009 - acpjournals.org
The Distributed Ambulatory Research in Therapeutics Network (DARTNet) is a federated
network of electronic health data from 8 organizations representing more than 500 clinicians …

Demonstration of the health literacy universal precautions toolkit: lessons for quality improvement

NM Mabachi, M Cifuentes, J Barnard… - The Journal of …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Health Literacy Universal Precautions
Toolkit was developed to help primary care practices assess and make changes to improve …

Improving the effectiveness of medication review: guidance from the health literacy universal precautions toolkit

…, J Barnard, K Albright, M Cifuentes… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - Am Board Family Med
Background: Although routine medication reviews in primary care practice are recommended
to identify drug therapy problems, it is often difficult to get patients to bring all their …

Clinician staffing, scheduling, and engagement strategies among primary care practices delivering integrated care

…, BA Balasubramanian, M Cifuentes… - The Journal of the …, 2015 - Am Board Family Med
Purpose: To examine the interrelationship among behavioral health clinician (BHC) staffing,
scheduling, and a primary care practice9s approach to delivering integrated care. Methods: …

Redesigning primary care practice to incorporate health behavior change: prescription for health round-2 results

LA Green, M Cifuentes, RE Glasgow… - American journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
Foundation), primary care practice–based research networks (PBRNs) and their community,
practice, academic, and healthcare system partners began with hard-won local knowledge. …

Parent and provider perspectives on pediatric readmissions: what can we learn about readiness for discharge?

M Brittan, K Albright, M Cifuentes… - Hospital …, 2015 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND: Readmissions are an increasingly recognized quality metric that will likely
affect payments to children’s hospitals. Our aim was to inform future efforts to reduce …