Center for Evaluation and Survey Research

About

We provide health-related evaluation and survey services to HealthPartners departments and the research community so programs can measure their impact on every aspect of care from quality and cost to experience.

Overview

abbreviation

  • CESR

    • Affiliation

    people

    Faculty Position
  • JaKa, Meghan M., PhD, Senior Evaluation Scientist 2018 -
  • Ziegenfuss, Jeanette Y., PhD , Director of Survey and Evaluation Science
    • Position
  • Dinh, Jennifer M., MPH, Evaluation & Survey Project Manager
  • Henderson, Maren S. G., MPP, Evaluation & Survey Scientist I
  • Rivard, Rachael L., MPH, Evaluation & Survey Statistician 2019 -

    • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • "Now I can see it works!" Perspectives on using a nutrition-focused approach when initiating continuous glucose monitoring in people with type 2 diabetes: qualitative interview study. 
    JMIR diabetes. 2025
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
  • Association of financial wellness with patterns of medical cannabis use and patient-reported outcomes in adults with cancer. 
    Cannabis (Research Society on Marijuana). 2025
  • COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake among firefighters: an application of the Health Belief Model. 
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2025
    Article has an altmetric score of 1
  • Care coordination in primary care: views of clinicians and clinic leaders. 
    Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2025
  • Care coordination: how is it implemented and is it different if a social worker is on the team?. 
    • Conference Poster
  • Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among firefighters: application of the Health Belief Model [poster]
    2023
  • Developing a center for evaluation in a learning health system [poster]
    2019
  • Hearing the patient voice on pain management after dental extractions [poster]
    2019
  • Development of a patient-centered outcome measure for the elderly orthopaedic hip fracture patient [poster]
    2018
  • Highly motivated population provides two successful recruitment methods into the TMD self-care study and PACT program [poster]
    2018
    • Review
  • Evidence to support health system prioritization of health behaviors in the COVID-19 era [review]. 
    Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. 2024
  • America's racial reckoning within perinatal communication: a rapid review using sociotechnical systems theory to compare publications before and after 2020 [review]. 
  • Leadership in practice-based research: the National Dental PBRN [review]. 
  • The dose of behavioral interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta-regression [meta-analysis, review, systematic review]. 
    The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2017
    Article has an altmetric score of 28
  • Reporting of treatment fidelity in behavioural paediatric obesity intervention trials: a systematic review [review, systematic review]. 
    • Abstract
  • Cannabis use for cancer-related symptoms in rural versus urban Minnesota [abstract]. 
    Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2024
  • Self-reported efficacy and usage of cannabis among patients with cancer within the Minnesota Cannabis Program [abstract]. 
    Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2022
  • Assessing challenges to implementing tobacco cessation guidelines in dental offices [abstract]. 
  • Comparing change in systolic blood pressure with clinic-based care versus telehealth care in a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial (Hyperlink 3) [abstract]. 
  • Medication adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary data from the patient perspective [abstract]. 

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