David West, PhD

Publications

• Annual Rpeort: Independent Evaluation of the Utah TPCP Program: Submitted to the Utah Department of Health and the Utah General Assembly
• Predictors of Colorectal Screening in Rural Colorado: Testing to Prevent Colon Cancer in the High Plains Research Network
• THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE AND HYDRALAZINE IN RACIAL/ETHNIC SUBGROUPS WITH HEART FAILURE
• THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE AND HYDRALAZINE IN RACIAL/ETHNIC SUBGROUPS WITH HEART FAILURE
• Determinants of Patient Harm in Primary Care Medical Errors
• Background Checks in Long term Care: A CMS Report to Congress
• American Heart Journal : Pharmakinetics of Hydralazine/Isosorbide
• Independent Evaluation of the Utah Tobacco Control Rpogram: A report to the Utah General Assembly
• Dickinson, P, et al, Practice Facilitation to Improve Diabetes Care in Primary Care: A Report from the EPIC Randomized Clinical Trial, Pending: Annals of Family Medicine
• Report to the Utah General Assembly: Independent Evaluation of the Utah TPCP Program
• Cost of QI in Primary Care
• DARTNet: A description of the DARTNet Experience
• DARTNet: Results of Evaluation Report #3: Comparative Effectiveness of Oral Hypoglycemic Drugs
• With Perry: Final Report to AHRQ: Cost of Quality Improvement in Primary Care
• Presenting DARTNet to AHRQ, FDA, NIH, DoD, CDC, and HHS
• MDC-D-09-00562R1, entitled "Comparative Effectiveness Research in DARTNet Primary Care Practices: Point of Care Data Collection on Hypoglycemia and Over-the-Counter and Herbal Use among Patients Diagnosed with Diabetes", Medical Care, pending
• Independent Evaluation of the Utah Tobacco Control Program, A Monograpoh for the Utah General Assembly, West, Young, Rothwell, Vance, McGloin, and James
• Distributed Ambulatory Research in Therapeutics Network (DARTNet): Informing Practice and Improving Depression Care
• Effective Health Care, Volume 14, AHRQ: Distributed Ambulatory Research and Therapeutics Netwrok, Pace, West, Valuck, Staton
• A Guide to a Curriculum for Patients Recently Diagnosed with RA, Vance, Young, James, West
• Pace, Cifuentes, Valuck, Staton, and West; An Electronic Practice-Based Network for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research, Annals of Internal Medicine, Volume 151, Number 4, September, 2009.
• West D, Dickinson WP, Radcliff T. Cost and Other Issues for Primary Care Practices Involved in Quality Improvement Efforts. Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research Annual Conference. Bethesda, MD (2009).
• Citation: Dickinson WP, West D, Radcliff T, Cote M, Brown T. Cost of quality measurement data collection, reporting, and use in primary care practices. Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference. Denver, CO (2009).
• Indpendent Evaluation of the Utah Tobacco Prevention and Control Program
• 16. Tiffany A. Radcliff PhD , Alan White PhD , David R. West PhD , Donna Hurd RN MSN & Murray J. Coté PhD (2013): Evaluation of a Seven State Criminal History Screening Pilot Program for Long-term Care Workers, Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, DOI:10.1080/08946566.March 2013.780955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08946566.2013.780955
• Ross SE, Schilling LM, Fernald DH, Davidson AJ, West DR. Health information exchange in small-to-medium sized family medicine practices:motivators,barriers, and potential facilitators of adoption. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2010 Feb; 79(2):123-9. Epub 2010 Jan 12. PMID: 20061182
• Ross SE, Schilling LM, Fernald DH, Davidson AJ, West DR. Health information exchange in small-to-medium sized family medicine practices:motivators,barriers, and potential facilitators of adoption. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2010 Feb; 79(2):123-9. Epub 2010 Jan 12. PMID: 20061182
• James and West,Efficiency and Waste in Primary Care Practice: AHRQ Monograph, 2011
• Primary Care: Survival of the Efficient?, National PBRN COnference, Bethesda, MD June 16-18, 2010
• West, D., Developing Feasible Interventions to Change Practive Behavior: Four Perspectives, AHRQ and COHO.May 2010
• West, D.,Reducing Waste in Care Delivery, AHRQ National Conference, MD, Sept. 26-29, 2010
• West, D., Do Patient Centered Medical Homes Lower Cost and Improve Quality?, AHRQ Naitonal Conference, MD, Sept. 26-29,2010.
• Phillips RL, Bronnikov S, Petterson S, CIfuentes M, Teevan B, Dodoo M, Pace WD, and West DR. Case Study of a Primary Care-Based Accountable Care System Approach to Medical Home Transformaiton., J Amb Care Mgmt. 2011, Jan-Mar 34 (1): 67-77.PMID: 21160354
• Libby A, Pace W, Bryan C, Anderson H, West D. Comparative Effectiveness Research in DARTNet Primary Care Practices:Point of Care Data Collection on Hypoglycemia and Over-the-Counter and Herbal Use AMong Patients Diagnosed With Diabetes. J Amer Pub Hlth Assocv, Medical Care. 2010; 48:S39-44.
• West D, Dickinson P, Radcliff T, Cote M. Costs Associated with the Reporting of Diabetes Indicators in Primary Care, Publication accepted and pending in the JABFM, 2012
• Fernald, Doug; Coombs, Letoynia; DeAlleaume, Lauren; West, David; and Parnes, Bennett. An Assessment of the Hawthorne Effect in Practice-based Research. Journal of American Board Family Medicine. January 1, 2012. 25:1-4
• Anderson H; Pace W; West D; Libby, A; Valuck, R. Rates of five common antidepressant side effects among new adult and adolescent cases of depression: a retrospective U.S. claims study. Reference: CLITHE1698. Journal title: Clinical Therapeutics. 2012 Oct-Dec
• Final Report: Independent Evaluation of the Utah Tobacco Control Program
• 15. Maxwell L. Smith, Stephen S. Raab, Douglas H. Fernald, Katherine A. James, Jacob A. Lebin, Dana M. Grzybicki, Claire Zelie, and David R. West (2013) Evaluating the Connections Between Primary Care Practice and Clinical Laboratory Testing: A Review of the Literature and Call for Laboratory Involvement in the Solutions. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: January 2013, Vol. 137, No. 1, pp. 120-125. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/arpa.2011-0555-RA
• 14. Jenkins TC, Irwin A, Coombs L, DeAlleaume L, Ross SE, Rozwadowski J, Webster, B, Dickinson LM, Sabel AL, MacKenzie TD, West DR, Price CS. Effects of clinical pathways for common outpatient infections on antibiotic prescribing. Am J Med.-The Green Journal. Manuscript number: 12-648R2.April 2013
• 13. West D, Radcliff T, Brown T, Cote M, Smith P, Dickinson P (May 2012). Costs Associated with Data Collection and Reporting for Diabetes Quality Improvement in Primary Care Practices: A Report from SNOCAP-USA. J Am Board Fam Med 2012; 25 275-282
• Brandt, E, Fernald, D, Parnes, B, Pace, W, West, David R. An Electronic Card Study of Treatment Strategies for CA-MRSA. Advances in Health, AHRQ, Submitted Mar 2013.
• Irwin, A, Moore, Susan, Price, C, Jenkins, T, DeAlleaume, L, West, David R. Flexible Interventions to Decrease Antibiotic Overuse in Primary Care Practice: A Report from SNOCAP-USA. Advnaces in Health ,Submitted March 2013.
• Shaw E West, D, Howard J, Crabtree B, Nease D, Tutt B, Nutting P. The Role of the Champion in Primary Care Change Efforts: From the State Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices and Partners (SNOCAP). Journal of American Board Family Medicine. JABFM-11-0281 Version 2, March 2012. Journal of American Board of Fa
• Price, C;, Jenkins, T; West, D. Final Report: Effects of Clincal Decision Support Upon Antibiotics Usage in Primary Care. AHRQ. A Report from SNOCAP-USA. 2012
• Phillips, B; Cifuentes, M; West, D. Final Reprot: Evaluation of the Patient-Centered Medical Home. AHRQ. December 2011.
• Radcliff, T; West, D; James, K; Cote, M. in Econometrics: New Research. Chapter.ID_1119_ Regression And Data Envelopment Analysis Methods To Assess Practice Efficiency
• West, D, Schilling, L, Kahn, M, Pace, WD. PCORI National Workshop; Advancing the Use of Electronic Data in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research; Palo Alto, CA 2012.
• Dickinson WP, Dickinson LM, Nutting PA, Emsermann CB, Tutt B, Crabtree BF, Fisher L, Harbrecht M, Gottsman A, West DR. Practice facilitation to improve diabetes care in primary care: a report from the EPIC randomized clinical trial. Ann Fam Med. 2014 Jan-Feb;12(1):8-16. PubMed PMID: 24445098
• Keeley RD, West DR, Tutt B, Nutting PA. A qualitative comparison of primary care clinicians' and their patients' perspectives on achieving depression care: implications for improving outcomes. BMC Fam Pract. 2014 Jan 15;15:13. PubMed PMID: 24428952
• 32. Hammermeister, K, Bronsert, M, Henderson, WG, Coombs, L, Hosokawa, P, Brandt, E, Bryan, C, Valuck, R, West, D, Liaw, W, Ho, Michael, Pace, W. Risk-Adjusted Comparison of Blood Pressure and Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL) Noncontrol in Primary Care Offices. J Am Board Fam Med November-December 2013; 26:658-668; doi:10.3122/jabfm.2013.06.130017
• Anderson HD, Pace WD, Brandt E, Nielsen RD, Allen RR, Libby AM, West DR, Valuck RJ. Monitoring suicidal patients in primary care using electronic health records. J Am Board Fam Med. 2015 Jan-Feb;28(1):65-71. PubMed PMID: 25567824
• Dickinson LM, Dickinson WP, Nutting PA, Fisher L, Harbrecht M, Crabtree BF, Glasgow RE, West DR. Practice Context Affects Efforts to Improve Diabetes Care for Primary Care Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Dec 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25472509
• West DR, James KA, Fernald DH, Zelie C, Smith ML, Raab SS. Laboratory medicine handoff gaps experienced by primary care practices: A report from the shared networks of collaborative ambulatory practices and partners (SNOCAP). J Am Board Fam Med. 2014 Nov-Dec;27(6):796-803. PubMed PMID: 25381077
• Weiss BD, Brega AG, LeBlanc WG, Mabachi NM, Barnard J, Albright K, Cifuentes M, Brach C, West DR. Improving the Effectiveness of Medication Review: Guidance from the Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit. J Am Board Fam Med. 2016 Jan-Feb;29(1):18-23. PubMed PMID: 26769873
• Brega AG, Freedman MA, LeBlanc WG, Barnard J, Mabachi NM, Cifuentes M, Albright K, Weiss BD, Brach C, West DR. Using the Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit to Improve the Quality of Patient Materials. J Health Commun. 2015 Oct;20 Suppl 2:69-76. PubMed PMID: 26513033
• Capp R, West DR, Doran K, Sauaia A, Wiler J, Coolman T, Ginde AA. Characteristics of Medicaid-Covered Emergency Department Visits Made by Nonelderly Adults: A National Study. J Emerg Med. 2015 Dec;49(6):984-9. PubMed PMID: 26482830
• Fernald D, Hamer M, James K, Tutt B, West D. Launching a Laboratory Testing Process Quality Improvement Toolkit: From the Shared Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices and Partners (SNOCAP). J Am Board Fam Med. 2015 Sep-Oct;28(5):576-83. PubMed PMID: 26355129
• James KA, Ross SE, Vance B, Radcliffe T, Harrison MI, West D. Inefficiency in primary care: common causes and potential solutions. Fam Pract Manag. 2015 Mar-Apr;22(2):18-22. PubMed PMID: 25884969
• Advances in Health Care. AHRQ. Antibiotics Stewardship
• Advances in Health Care: Using DARTNet in a Card Study to implement CDC Guidelines