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Mary C Ruhe

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Meropol S, Schiltz N, Sattar A, Stange K, Nevar A, Davey C, et al.
Pediatrics . 2014 May; 133(6):e1664-75. PMID: 24799539
Objective: Evolving primary care models require methods to help practices achieve quality standards. This study assessed the effectiveness of a Practice-Tailored Facilitation Intervention for improving delivery of 3 pediatric preventive...
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Ruhe M, Bobiak S, Litaker D, Carter C, Wu L, Schroeder C, et al.
Qual Manag Health Care . 2010 Dec; 20(1):37-48. PMID: 21192206
Purpose: To test the effect of an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) quality improvement strategy on clinical quality management and practice development outcomes. Appreciative inquiry enables the discovery of shared motivations, envisioning...
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Bobiak S, Zyzanski S, Ruhe M, Carter C, Ragan B, Flocke S, et al.
Qual Manag Health Care . 2009 Oct; 18(4):278-84. PMID: 19851235
Purpose: Capacity for change, or the ability and willingness to undertake change, is an organizational characteristic with potential to foster quality management in health care. We report on the development...
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Ruhe M, Carter C, Litaker D, Stange K
Qual Manag Health Care . 2009 Oct; 18(4):268-77. PMID: 19851234
Background: The ways in which tailored interventions foster sustained improvement in the quality of health care delivery across different practice settings are not well understood. Using the empirically developed Practice...
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Carter C, Ruhe M, Weyer S, Litaker D, Fry R, Stange K
Qual Manag Health Care . 2007 Jul; 16(3):194-204. PMID: 17627214
Amid tremendous changes and widespread dissatisfaction with the current health care system, many approaches to improve practice have emerged; however, their effects on quality of care have been disappointing. This...
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Ruhe M, Weyer S, Zronek S, Wilkinson A, Wilkinson P, Stange K
Prev Med . 2005 Apr; 40(6):729-34. PMID: 15850872
Background: The Study To Enhance Prevention by Understanding Practice (STEP-UP) clinical trial (1997-2000) resulted in sustainable increases in preventive service delivery in primary care practices. However, the process by which...
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Cohen D, McDaniel Jr R, Crabtree B, Ruhe M, Weyer S, Tallia A, et al.
J Healthc Manag . 2004 Jun; 49(3):155-68. PMID: 15190858
Faced with a rapidly changing healthcare environment, primary care practices often have to change how they practice medicine. Yet change is difficult, and the process by which practice improvement can...