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Rush, William A., PhD
Retired Research Investigator

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Publications While At HealthPartners

selected publications

Journal Article
  • Quantifying dental office-originating adverse events: the Dental Practice Study methods. 
  • Dental Decision Simulation (DDSim): development of a virtual training environment. 
  • Development, validity and reliability of the Orofacial Esthetic Scale - Spanish version
  • Examining failure in a dynamic decision environment: strategies for treating patients with a chronic disease
    2016
  • Dental hygienists' usage of tobacco-cessation decision support tools in practice: a qualitative study
    2015
    • Chapter
  • Advances in Patient Safety Clinical Inertia and Outpatient Medical Errors. 
    Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation (Volume 2: Concepts and Methodology). 2005
  • Advances in Patient Safety Identification, Classification, and Frequency of Medical Errors in Outpatient Diabetes Care. 
    Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation (Volume 1: Research Findings). 2005
  • Advances in Patient Safety SimCare: A Model for Studying Physician Decisionmaking Activity. 
    Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation (Volume 4: Programs, Tools, and Products). 2005
  • Clinical inertia and outpatient medical errors. 
    Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. 2005
  • Identification, classification, and frequency of medical errors in outpatient diabetes care. 
    Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. 2005
    • Conference Paper
  • Ouch! Does going to the dentist hurt [poster: Dental Fear, Pain and Anxiety session]?
    2019
  • Cost-effectiveness of EMR-based clinical decision support [presentation
    2011
    • Conference Poster
  • Can prioritized clinical decision support in primary care reduce cardiovascular risk? [poster]
    2017
  • Usability evaluation of an evidence-based dental patient case simulator [poster]
    2016
  • Improving population health: predictors of recidivism to uncontrolled hypertension in patients with previously well-controlled hypertension [poster]
    2015
  • Could BMI be a caries risk predictor [poster]
    2014
  • Personalized physician learning intervention to improve hypertension control: randomized trial comparing two methods of physician profiling [poster]
    2014
    • Review
  • Clinical inertia in dentistry: a review of the phenomenon [review]. 
    Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice. 2008
  • Using data mining to predict errors in chronic disease care [review]
    2008
    • Abstract
  • Comparative effectiveness of two diabetes clinical decision support systems on cardiometabolic outcomes and CV risk: randomized trial [abstract 2304-PUB]. 
    Diabetes. 2016
  • Evaluation of provider experience with an EHR-based clinical decision support tool [abstract]. 
    Diabetes. 2015
  • Implementation of an electronic dental record tool to increase referrals to a tobacco counseling quit line [abstract]. 
    Implementation science. 2015
  • Educating resident physicians using virtual case-based simulation improves diabetes management--a randomized, controlled trial [abstract 322-OR]. 
    Diabetes. 2014
  • Building a simulation system to train dentists to practice evidence-based dentistry [abstract]. 
    Clinical Medicine & Research. 2013

    • presentations

    Presentation
  • A diabetes simulated physician learning program improved glucose control and is cost-effective [presentation], CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Diabetes Translation Conference 2011 - Changing the Course of Diabetes: Optimizing Health for All
  • A diabetes simulated physician learning program improved glucose control and is highly cost-effective [presentation], Minnesota Health Services Research 15th Annual Conference
  • A machine learning approach to improving process control [presentation], Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) (19th)
  • A multi-site virtual data warehouse to support oral-systematic research [presentation], AADR (American Association for Dental Research) 43rd Annual Meeting/CADR (Canadian Association for Dental Research) 38th Annual Meeting
  • A qualitative study of electronic dental record utilization [presentation], International Association for Dental Research (IADR)/American Association for Dental Research (AADR)/Canadian Association for Dental Research (CADR) 87th General Session and Exhibition

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