MHA Faculty Publications

Jean Abraham

Abraham J, Jerome-D’Emilia B, Begun JW. “Diffusion of Magnet Hospital Recognition.”  Health Care Manage Rev 2011; 36(4):306-314.

Abraham JM, Feldman R, Nyman JA, Barleen N. “What factors influence participation in an exercise-focused employer-based wellness program?” Inquiry 2011; 48(3):221-241.

Abraham, J. J. McCullough, S.T. Parente, and M. Gaynor, “Prevalence of Electronic Health Records Among U.S. Hospitals.”2011, Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2(2):121-142.

Parente, Stephen T., R. Feldman, J. Abraham, and Yi Xu.  “Consumer Response to a National Marketplace for Individual Health Insurance.” June 2011, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 78(2):  389-411.

Abraham, J., B. Sick, J. Anderson, A. Berg, C. Dehmer, and A. Tufano. “Selecting a Provider: What Factors Influence Patients’ Decision-Making?”  March/April 2011,  Journal of Healthcare Management, 56(2): 99-114

Sommers, Anna, J. Abraham, L. Spicer, A. Mikow, M. Spaulding-Bynon. “Small Group Employer Participation in New Mexico’s State Coverage Insurance Program:  Lessons for Federal Reform,” February 2011, Health Services Research, 46(1, Part 2): 268-284.

Abraham, J. and P. Karaca-Mandic.  “Regulating the Ratio:  Understanding the Potential Impact of Medical Loss Ratio Requirements on U.S. Health Insurance Markets,” 2011, American Journal of Managed Care, 17(3):  211-218.

Hofer, A., J. Abraham, I. Moscovice. “Coverage Expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Demand for Primary Care,” 2011, The Milbank Quarterly, 89(1): 69-89.

James W. Begun

Fallon LF, Begun JW, Riley W. ”Managing health organizations for quality and performance.” Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning, 2012.

Parsons HM, Tuttle TM, Kuntz KM, Begun JW, Virnig BA.  “Association between lymph node evaluation for colon cancer and node positivity over the past 20 years.” JAMA 2011; 306(10):1089-1097.

Begun JW, White KR, Mosser G. Interprofessional care teams: the role of the healthcare administrator. J Interprof Care 2011; 25(2):119-123.

Hanh QT, Begun JW, Luke RD. “Better to receive than to give? Inter-organizational service arrangements and hospital performance.” Health Care Manage Rev 2010; 35(1):88-97

White KR, Begun JW. “The evolution of healthcare management education: how can programs become more patient-centric?” J Health Adm Educ 2009; 26(2):143-151

Begun JW, Heatwole KB. “Strategic cycling: shaking complacency in healthcare strategic planning.” In: Kovner AR, McAlearney AS, Neuhauser D, editors. Health services management: cases, readings, and commentary, ninth edition. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2009: 301-314

Begun JW. “Strategic cycling revisited.” In: Kovner AR, McAlearney AS, Neuhauser D, editors. Health services management: cases, readings, and commentary, ninth edition. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2009: 299-301

Begun JW. “Commentary: realistic evidence-based management.” Health Care Manage Rev 2009; 34(3):214-215. 9)

Armbruster RR, Begun JW, Duncan AK. “An in-house learning laboratory for patient-centered innovation.” J Healthc Qual 2009; 31(1):10-17

Jon B. Christianson

Adair R, Christianson JB, Wholey DR, White KM, Town R, et al. “Care guides: employing non-clinical laypersons to help primary care teams manage chronic disease.” J Ambul Care Manage 2012; 35(1):27-37.

Christianson, Jon B. and Douglas Conrad, “Provider Payment and Incentives,” Oxford Handbook of Health Economics , Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 624-628

Adair, Richard, Jon Christianson, Douglas Wholey, Katie M. White, Robert Town, Suhna Lee, Heather Britt, Peter Lund, Anya Lukasewycz, and Deborah Elumba, “Care Guides. Employing Nonclinical Laypersons to Health Primary Care Teams Manage Chronic Disease,” Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2011), pp. 1-11.

Christianson, Jon B., Karen Volmar, Jeffrey Alexander, and Dennis P. Scanlon, “A Report Card on Provider Report Cards: Current Status of the Health Care Transparency Movement,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 25, No. 11 (November 2010), pp. 1235-1241.

Alexander, Jeffrey A., Jon B. Christianson, Larry R. Hearld, Robert Hurley, and Dennis P. Scanlon, “Challenges of Capacity Building in Multi-sector Community Health Alliances,” Health Education and Behavior, Vol. 37, No. 5 (October, 2010), pp. 645-663.

Christianson, Jon B. “Foreward, Special Supplemental Issue: Interventions to Improve Care Delivery,” guest editor, Medical Care Research and Review, Supplement to Vol. 66 (December 2009), pp. 3S-4S.

Jeffrey McCullough

Song P, McAlarney A, Robbins J, McCullough J. Exploring the business case for ambulatory electronic health record system adoption. J Healthc Manag 2011; 56(3):169-180.

Ira Moscovice

Klingner J, Moscovice I. “Development and testing of emergency department patient transfer communciation measures.” J Rural Health 2012; 28(1):44-53.

Hofer A, Abraham J, Moscovice I. Coverage expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and demand for primary care. Milbank Q 2011; 89(1):69-89McCullough J, Casey M, Moscovice I, Prasad S. “The Effect of Health Information Technology on Quality in U.S. Hospitals.” Health Aff (Millwood ) 2010; 29(4):647-654

Wholey D, Gregg W, Moscovice I. “Public health systems: a social networks perspective.” Health Serv Res 2009; 44:1842-1862

McCullough J, Casey M, Moscovice I. “Health information technology policy and rural hospitals.” Healthcare reform policy brief written at the request of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Research. 2009

Klingner J, Moscovice I, Tupper J, Coburn A, Wakefield M. “Implementing patient safety initiatives in rural hospitals.” J Rural Health 2009; 25(4):352-357

John A. Nyman

Beckwith J, Nyman JA, Flanagan B, Schrover R, Schuurman H-J. “A health economic analysis of clinical islet transplantation.” Clin Transplant 2012; 26(1):23-33.

Nyman JA. “Measurement of QALYs and the Welfare Implications of Survivor Consumption and Leisure Forgone.” Health Econ 2011; 20(1):56-67

Nyman JA, Jalal HJ. “Including Indirect Medical Care Costs from Survivor Years of Life in Economic Evaluations.” Pharmacoeconomics 2011; 29(3):173-174.

Nyman JA, Lees CH, Bockstedt LA, Filice GA, Lexau C, Lesher LJ et al. “Cost of Screening Intensive Care Unit Patients for Methicillin-Resident Staphylococcus Aureus in Hospitals. Am J Infect Control 2011; 39(1):27-34.

Nyman JA, Barleen N, Abraham J. “The effectiveness of health promotion at the University of Minnesota: expenditures, absenteeism and participation in specific programs.” J Occup Environ Med 2010; 52(3):269-280

Maud A, Vazques G, Nyman JA, Lakshminarayan K, Anderson DC, Qureshi AI. “Cost-effectiveness analysis of protected carotin-artery stent placement versus endarterectomy in high risk patients.” J Endovasc Ther 2010; 17(2):224-229

Filice GA, Nyman JA, Lexau C, Lees CH, Bockstedt LA, Como-Sabetti K et al. “Excess costs and utilization associated with Methicillin resistance in patients with staphylococcus aureus infection.” Infect Cont Hosp Epidemiol 2010; 31(4):365-373

Nyman JA, Li C-H. “Price and quality transparency in Minnesota.” Minn Med 2009; 92(7):32-35

Nyman JA, Barleen NA, Dowd BE. “A return-on-investment analysis of the health promotion program at the University of Minnesota.” J Occup Environ Med 2009; 51:54-65

Crow SJ, Frisch MJ, Peterson CB, …, Nyman JA. “Monetary costs associated with bulemia.” Int J Eat Disord 2009; 41(1):81-83

Sandra K. Potthoff

Wang WY, Gupta D, Potthoff S. “On evaluating the impact of flexibility enhancing strategies on the performance of nurse schedules.” Health Policy 2009; 93(2-3):188-200

Pettingell SL, Bearinger LH, Skay CL, Resnick MD, Potthoff SJ, Eichhorn J. “Protecting urban American Indian young people from suicide.” Am J Health Behav 2008; 32(5):465-476

William Riley

Fallon LF, Begun JW, Riley W. “Managing health organizations for quality and performance.” Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning, 2012.

Francois Sainfort

Culler SD, Jose J, Kohler S, Edwards P, Dee AD, Sainfort F et al. “Implementing a pharmacy system: facilitators and barriers.” J Med Syst 2009; 33(2):81-90

Edwards PJ, Scott T, Richardson P, Espinoza W, Sainfort F et al. “Using staff perceptions on patient safety as a tool for improving safety culture in a pediatric hospital system.” J Patient Safety 2008; 4(2):113-118.

Edwards PJ, Huang DT, Metcalfe LN, Sainfort F. “Maximizing your investment in EHR: utilizing EHRs to inform continuous quality improvement.” J Healthc Inf Manag 2008; 22(1):32-37

Edwards PJ, Moloney KP, Jacko JA, Sainfort F. “Evaluating usability of a commercial electronic health record: a case study.” Int J of Human-Computer Studies 2008; 66(10):718-728

Daniel K. Zismer

Zismer DK.  “Is the independent private medical practice losing its gravitational pull?” (editorial). Group Practice Journal 2011; July/August.

Zismer DK. “Reshaping directors’ views and efforts in a reforming healthcare marketplace.” Boardroom Press 2011; April.

Zismer DK. “The psychology of organizational structure in integrated health systems.” PEJ The Physician Executive Journal of Medical Management 2011; May/June

Daniel K. Zismer, “Health Care Reform: Don’t wait for the Specifics; the Fundamentals are Clear Enough,” Perspective, September 2009

Daniel K. Zismer, “Stress Testing a Health System’s Physician Strategy,” Perspective, April 2009