Activities
Upcoming Presentations
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Past Presentations
Dr. Leif Solberg, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN
Leif Solberg, MD, is the Associate Medical Director for Care Improvement Research, HealthPartners Medical Group, and the Clinical Director for Care Improvement Research at Health Partners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN. His research interests include the improvement of care delivery, especially for preventive services and chronic disease care. In addition he has interest in tobacco control. Quality of diabetes care and depression in the primary care settings, chronic care model applications, organizational features contributing to the quality of care, the role of collaboration in improvement of the quality of care are main topic of his research.
- Download Dr. Solberg's presentation slides: PDF format | MS PowerPoint format
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Dr. John Kralewski, Minneapolis, MN
John Kralewski, PhD, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, has extensive experience conducting research on medical group practices. He has studied the influence of the organization and management of group practices on the costs of care and the internal efficiency of the practice. He led the development of a reliable, validated instrument to measure practice culture. He found that group practice culture influences the type of quality assurance programs adopted by the practice and that the fit between the culture and quality assurance programs influences their effectiveness. Cultural variables are now being included in the group practice research program and the instrument is being used by several other researchers to study the factors influencing group practice performance.
Dr. Kralewski has also studied the relationships between the costs of care and the use of quality improvement programs, efforts to reduce costs in group practices and drug error rates, and financial incentives and the quality of care. His research now focuses on the adoption and implementation of electronic-based clinical and business information systems and the influence of these systems on performance. Dr. Kralewski has worked effectively with medical group practices to conduct studies that often require the acquisition of very sensitive data. His work also demonstrates that high quality research can effectively translate into practice.
- Download Dr. Kralewski's presentation slides: PDF format | MS PowerPoint format
Friday, May 11th, 2007
Dr. Paul Nutting, Denver, CO
Paul Nutting, MD, MSPH, is a family physician researcher who has been involved in a variety of research activities related to improving care in primary care practice. He has focused on such topics as preventive care, diabetes, and depression. He is currently collaborating with Drs. Crabtree, Miller and Stange on research to understand and influence the process of change in primary care practice.
- Download Dr. Nutting's presentation slides: PDF format | MS PowerPoint format
Friday, June 8th, 2007
Dr. Will Miller, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA
William Miller, MD, is a family physician with extensive experience in qualitative research and in the study of primary care practices. He and his colleagues Drs. Crabtree and Stange published a series of articles based on direct observation of dozens of primary care practices. Dr. Miller has been a co-editor of several books on qualitative research methods.
- Download Dr. Miller's presentation slides: PDF format | MS PowerPoint format
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Dr. Leslie Neal-Boylan
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