John M Westfall
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5537428 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John M Westfall |
| PRENOMES | John M |
| SOBRENOME | Westfall |
| ASSINATURA | WESTFALL J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Colorado Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1070-0268 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A Scoping Review of Inpatient Medical and Surgical Quality Outcomes at Critical Access Hospitals
PURPOSE: The landscape of rural health services is threatened with new federal health policies and ongoing hospital closures. Additionally, there is a lack of consensus about the quality of inpatient medical and surgical services provided in rural critical access hospitals (CAHs). Information about quality of care at CAHs may be useful to guide policy decisions that affect their viability and to more cohesively understand outcomes for patients as…
Changes in reasons for visits to primary care after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped healthcare delivery worldwide. Objective To explore potential changes in the reasons for visits and modality of care in primary care settings through the Int ernational Conso r tium of P rimary Care B i g D ata Researchers (INTRePID). Methods We conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective study from 2018–2021. We examined visit volume, modality, and reasons for visits to primary care in Argentina, Aust…
Measuring Graduate Medical Education Outcomes to Honor the Social Contract
The graduate medical education (GME) system is heavily subsidized by the public in return for producing physicians who meet society’s needs. Under the terms of this implicit social contract, decisions about how this funding is allocated are deferred to the individual training sites. Institutions receiving public funding face potential conflicts of interest, which have at times prioritized institutional purposes and needs over societal needs, high…
Does a Rural Community‐Based Intervention Improve Knowledge and Attitudes of Opioid Use Disorder and Medication‐Assisted Treatment? A Report From the IT MATTTRs Study
PURPOSE: Understanding knowledge of and attitudes toward medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) is important to changing the conversation about this devastating public health problem. While several studies report clinician knowledge and attitudes and training, less is known about community member perspectives. As part of the Implementing Technology and Medication Assisted Treatment Team Training in Rural Colorado study …
UPSTREAM! Together evaluation results from community efforts to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral health problems
Increasing Transparency for Medical School Primary Care Rankings—Moving From a Beauty Contest to a Talent Show
The U.S. News & World Report (US News) annually ranks educational institutions on several criteria that affect many readers' views of their institutional reputations. 1 One critic of the US News rankings recently declared the medical school rankings a "beauty contest." 2 We agree and set out several years ago to persuade US News to shift the source of its data and diversify the foci of its medical school rankings to reflect a broader range of soc…
Practice-Based Research Networks
While the vast majority of people receive their medical care in community primary and specialty care clinics, most clinical research is performed in academic tertiary care hospitals and hospital clinics. Practice-based research networks are most commonly collections of primary care practices that work together to ask and answer health questions for their patients and communities and are an integral part of the translational pathway from discovery…
It’s time for a change
AI/BCT is a promising method of community engagement that is responsive to cultural differences. It is a strength-based approach focused on increasing the use of strategies that already work within the community. Therefore, it has the potential to reduce health disparities in the Latino community who have loved ones with autism ASD much more rapidly than traditional methods of inquiry. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Is Sitting Really the New Smoking
AffiliationsThe author is with the Farley Health Policy Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora
Quandaries in Authorship
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 12, Issue 2, Summer 2018
Patient vs. Community Engagement
BACKGROUND: The value proposition of including patients at each step of the research process is that patient perspectives and preferences can have a positive impact on both the science and the outcomes of comparative effectiveness research. How to accomplish engagement and the extent to which approaches to community engagement inform strategies for effective patient engagement need to be examined to address conducting and accelerating comparative…
Colorado Immersion Training in Community Engagement
CIT applies to and positively impacts researchers from a variety of disciplines. CIT creates opportunities for long lasting partnerships between researchers and communities
Promotores de Salud and Community Health Workers
For underserved and disenfranchised communities in the United States, affordable, effective health care can be nearly inaccessible, which often leads to the exclusion of these communities from relevant medical information and care. Barriers to care are especially salient in minority communities, where language, traditions and customs, socioeconomics, and access to education can serve as additional roadblocks to accessing health care information a…
Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Personal Practices Regarding Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Health Care Professionals in Rural Colorado
Purpose: This study reports the baseline knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and personal practices of health care professionals regarding colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in the High Plains Research Network (HPRN) of rural Colorado prior to a community‐based educational intervention. It also examines the association between health care staff members’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and personal practices for CRC screening and patient screening levels…
Increasing colon cancer testing in rural Colorado
Using local community members led to the successful implementation of the intervention. Program materials and messages reached a high percentage of the target population and increased colorectal cancer screening intentions
Practice-Based Research—“Blue Highways” on the NIH Roadmap
Our website uses cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to use our site, or clicking "Continue," you are agreeing to our Cookie Policy | Continue JAMA HomeNew OnlineCurrent IssueFor Authors Publications JAMA JAMA Network Open JAMA Cardiology JAMA Dermatology JAMA Health Forum JAMA Internal Medicine JAMA Neurology JAMA Oncology JAMA Ophthalmology JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery JAMA Pediatrics JAMA Psychiatry JAMA Surgery Archiv…
Predictors of Colorectal Screening in Rural Colorado
Context: Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, yet screening rates are well below target levels. Rural communities may face common and unique barriers to health care, particularly preventive health care. Purpose: To establish baseline attitudinal, knowledge, belief, and behavior measures on colorectal cancer screening and to identify barriers to or predictors of colorectal cancer screening. Methods: A…
Barriers to Quality Care for Dying Patients in Rural Communities
Context: Barriers to providing optimal palliative care in rural communities are not well understood. Purpose: To identify health care personnel’s perceptions of the care provided to dying patients in rural Kansas and Colorado and to identify barriers to providing optimal care. Methods: An anonymous self‐administered survey was sent to health care personnel throughout 2 rural practice‐based research networks. Targeted personnel included clinicians…
Birth outcomes in Colorado's undocumented immigrant population
Undocumented women have lower rates of preterm delivery and low birth weight infants, but higher rates of pregnancy related risk factors. Higher prevalence of some risk factors which are amenable to medical intervention reveals the need for improved prenatal care in this group
Validation of the EQ-5D quality of life instrument in patients after myocardial infarction
Applied Strategies for Improving Patient Safety
Context: 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. Purpose: To describe a system to decrease medical errors and improve care in rural and frontier primary care offices. Methods: Applied Strategies for Improving Patient Safety (ASIPS) was a demonstration project designed to collect and an…
Characteristics of and Issues Faced by Rural Female Family Physicians
The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics of and issues faced by female family physicians practicing in rural areas. A 37‐item survey was designed to obtain demographic information about the background, community and practice of rural female physicians. An open‐ended question regarding the issues and problems faced by female physicians in rural communities was included. Study subjects were identified from the membership of the Ame…
Impact of Double Counting and Transfer Bias on Estimated Rates and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction
CONTEXT: Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Recent studies report inconsistent findings on the changes in the incidence of hospitalizations for ischemic heart disease. These reports have relied primarily on hospital discharge data. Preliminary data suggest that a significant percentage of patients suffering acute myocardial infarction (MI) in rural communities are transferred to urban centers for care. Pati…
It’s time for a change
AI/BCT is a promising method of community engagement that is responsive to cultural differences. It is a strength-based approach focused on increasing the use of strategies that already work within the community. Therefore, it has the potential to reduce health disparities in the Latino community who have loved ones with autism ASD much more rapidly than traditional methods of inquiry. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Characteristics of and Issues Faced by Rural Female Family Physicians
The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics of and issues faced by female family physicians practicing in rural areas. A 37‐item survey was designed to obtain demographic information about the background, community and practice of rural female physicians. An open‐ended question regarding the issues and problems faced by female physicians in rural communities was included. Study subjects were identified from the membership of the Ame…
Impact of Double Counting and Transfer Bias on Estimated Rates and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction
CONTEXT: Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Recent studies report inconsistent findings on the changes in the incidence of hospitalizations for ischemic heart disease. These reports have relied primarily on hospital discharge data. Preliminary data suggest that a significant percentage of patients suffering acute myocardial infarction (MI) in rural communities are transferred to urban centers for care. Pati…
Applied Strategies for Improving Patient Safety
Context: 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. Purpose: To describe a system to decrease medical errors and improve care in rural and frontier primary care offices. Methods: Applied Strategies for Improving Patient Safety (ASIPS) was a demonstration project designed to collect and an…
Birth outcomes in Colorado's undocumented immigrant population
Undocumented women have lower rates of preterm delivery and low birth weight infants, but higher rates of pregnancy related risk factors. Higher prevalence of some risk factors which are amenable to medical intervention reveals the need for improved prenatal care in this group
Validation of the EQ-5D quality of life instrument in patients after myocardial infarction
Barriers to Quality Care for Dying Patients in Rural Communities
Context: Barriers to providing optimal palliative care in rural communities are not well understood. Purpose: To identify health care personnel’s perceptions of the care provided to dying patients in rural Kansas and Colorado and to identify barriers to providing optimal care. Methods: An anonymous self‐administered survey was sent to health care personnel throughout 2 rural practice‐based research networks. Targeted personnel included clinicians…
Practice-Based Research—“Blue Highways” on the NIH Roadmap
Our website uses cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to use our site, or clicking "Continue," you are agreeing to our Cookie Policy | Continue JAMA HomeNew OnlineCurrent IssueFor Authors Publications JAMA JAMA Network Open JAMA Cardiology JAMA Dermatology JAMA Health Forum JAMA Internal Medicine JAMA Neurology JAMA Oncology JAMA Ophthalmology JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery JAMA Pediatrics JAMA Psychiatry JAMA Surgery Archiv…
Predictors of Colorectal Screening in Rural Colorado
Context: Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, yet screening rates are well below target levels. Rural communities may face common and unique barriers to health care, particularly preventive health care. Purpose: To establish baseline attitudinal, knowledge, belief, and behavior measures on colorectal cancer screening and to identify barriers to or predictors of colorectal cancer screening. Methods: A…
Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Personal Practices Regarding Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Health Care Professionals in Rural Colorado
Purpose: This study reports the baseline knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and personal practices of health care professionals regarding colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in the High Plains Research Network (HPRN) of rural Colorado prior to a community‐based educational intervention. It also examines the association between health care staff members’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and personal practices for CRC screening and patient screening levels…
Increasing colon cancer testing in rural Colorado
Using local community members led to the successful implementation of the intervention. Program materials and messages reached a high percentage of the target population and increased colorectal cancer screening intentions
Promotores de Salud and Community Health Workers
For underserved and disenfranchised communities in the United States, affordable, effective health care can be nearly inaccessible, which often leads to the exclusion of these communities from relevant medical information and care. Barriers to care are especially salient in minority communities, where language, traditions and customs, socioeconomics, and access to education can serve as additional roadblocks to accessing health care information a…
Colorado Immersion Training in Community Engagement
CIT applies to and positively impacts researchers from a variety of disciplines. CIT creates opportunities for long lasting partnerships between researchers and communities
Quandaries in Authorship
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 12, Issue 2, Summer 2018
Patient vs. Community Engagement
BACKGROUND: The value proposition of including patients at each step of the research process is that patient perspectives and preferences can have a positive impact on both the science and the outcomes of comparative effectiveness research. How to accomplish engagement and the extent to which approaches to community engagement inform strategies for effective patient engagement need to be examined to address conducting and accelerating comparative…
Practice-Based Research Networks
While the vast majority of people receive their medical care in community primary and specialty care clinics, most clinical research is performed in academic tertiary care hospitals and hospital clinics. Practice-based research networks are most commonly collections of primary care practices that work together to ask and answer health questions for their patients and communities and are an integral part of the translational pathway from discovery…
It’s time for a change
AI/BCT is a promising method of community engagement that is responsive to cultural differences. It is a strength-based approach focused on increasing the use of strategies that already work within the community. Therefore, it has the potential to reduce health disparities in the Latino community who have loved ones with autism ASD much more rapidly than traditional methods of inquiry. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Is Sitting Really the New Smoking
AffiliationsThe author is with the Farley Health Policy Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora
UPSTREAM! Together evaluation results from community efforts to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral health problems
Increasing Transparency for Medical School Primary Care Rankings—Moving From a Beauty Contest to a Talent Show
The U.S. News & World Report (US News) annually ranks educational institutions on several criteria that affect many readers' views of their institutional reputations. 1 One critic of the US News rankings recently declared the medical school rankings a "beauty contest." 2 We agree and set out several years ago to persuade US News to shift the source of its data and diversify the foci of its medical school rankings to reflect a broader range of soc…
Measuring Graduate Medical Education Outcomes to Honor the Social Contract
The graduate medical education (GME) system is heavily subsidized by the public in return for producing physicians who meet society’s needs. Under the terms of this implicit social contract, decisions about how this funding is allocated are deferred to the individual training sites. Institutions receiving public funding face potential conflicts of interest, which have at times prioritized institutional purposes and needs over societal needs, high…
Does a Rural Community‐Based Intervention Improve Knowledge and Attitudes of Opioid Use Disorder and Medication‐Assisted Treatment? A Report From the IT MATTTRs Study
PURPOSE: Understanding knowledge of and attitudes toward medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) is important to changing the conversation about this devastating public health problem. While several studies report clinician knowledge and attitudes and training, less is known about community member perspectives. As part of the Implementing Technology and Medication Assisted Treatment Team Training in Rural Colorado study …
Changes in reasons for visits to primary care after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped healthcare delivery worldwide. Objective To explore potential changes in the reasons for visits and modality of care in primary care settings through the Int ernational Conso r tium of P rimary Care B i g D ata Researchers (INTRePID). Methods We conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective study from 2018–2021. We examined visit volume, modality, and reasons for visits to primary care in Argentina, Aust…
A Scoping Review of Inpatient Medical and Surgical Quality Outcomes at Critical Access Hospitals
PURPOSE: The landscape of rural health services is threatened with new federal health policies and ongoing hospital closures. Additionally, there is a lack of consensus about the quality of inpatient medical and surgical services provided in rural critical access hospitals (CAHs). Information about quality of care at CAHs may be useful to guide policy decisions that affect their viability and to more cohesively understand outcomes for patients as…
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