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Thomas E. Elliott, MD
Retired Research Investigator
About

Academic appointment: Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Duluth

Joined the Institute: 2014

Education and training: MD, University of Kansas Medical School; Residency – Internal Medicine, University of Iowa; Residency – Anesthesiology, University of Minnesota; Fellowship – Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Iowa.

Overview/research interests: Principal investigator on 22 National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other agency-sponsored research grants for past 28 years. Published 160 scholarly works and served on numerous NCI study sections for the past 25 years. Manuscript reviewer for 18 journals and designated one of “15 Top Minnesota Physician Researchers” in 1998 and one of “100 Most Influential Health Care Leaders in Minnesota” in 2012. Interests include pain management, patient-reported outcomes in practice, measurement of health-related quality of life, use of opioids in primary care, cancer prevention in primary care, implementation and evaluation of clinical decision support and cancer clinical trials.

Current research activities and funding:

  • Principal investigator, Implementing Cancer Prevention Using Patient-Provider Clinical Decision Support (PI), NCI R01 CA193396, February 2016-January 2021
Publications While At 开云体育
selected publications
Journal Article
  • Clinical decision support with or without shared decision making to improve preventive cancer care: a cluster-randomized trial
    Medical Decision Making. 2022
  • Human papillomavirus vaccination clinical decision support for young adults in an upper midwestern healthcare system: a clinic cluster-randomized control trial
    Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 2022
  • Primary care clinicians' opinions before and after implementation of cancer screening and prevention clinical decision support in a clinic cluster-randomized control trial: a survey research study
    BMC Health Services Research. 2022
  • Design and rationale of an intervention to improve cancer prevention using clinical decision support and shared decision making: a clinic-randomized trial
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2021
  • Patient perceptions of using clinical decision support for cancer screening and prevention: "I wouldn't have thought about getting screened without it."
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • The impact of personalized clinical decision support on primary care patients' views of cancer prevention and screening: a cross-sectional survey
    BMC Health Services Research. 2021
  • Pre-implementation adaptation of primary care cancer prevention clinical decision support in a predominantly rural healthcare system
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2020
  • Barriers and facilitators to implementing cancer prevention clinical decision support in primary care: a qualitative study
    BMC Health Services Research. 2019
  • Understanding primary care providers' perceptions of cancer prevention and screening in a predominantly rural healthcare system in the upper Midwest
    BMC Health Services Research. 2019
  • Opioid use during pregnancy, observations of opioid use, and secular trend from 2006 to 2014 at 开云体育 Medical Group
    Clinical Journal of Pain. 2018
  • Enhancing risk assessment in patients receiving chronic opioid analgesic therapy using natural language processing
    Pain Medicine. 2017
  • Evaluation of care management intensity and bariatric surgical weight loss
    American Journal of Managed Care. 2015
  • Chronic opioid use emerging after bariatric surgery
    Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2014
  • Chronic use of opioid medications before and after bariatric surgery
    JAMA. 2013
  • A primary care primer for cancer prevention in rural populations
    Disease-a-Month. 2012
  • Conference Poster
  • Extending HMORN partnerships: the new Midwest Research Network [poster]
    2013
  • HMO Research Network Rural Health SIG: first report [poster]
    2013
  • Rural health research initiative in the HMORN: a new scientific interest group [poster]
    2013
  • Report
  • Scalable PArtnering Network (SPAN) for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER): purpose, structure, and operations
    2013
  • Scalable PArtnering Network (SPAN) for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER): research user interface principles and requirements
    2013
  • Review
  • Priorities Wizard: multisite web-based primary care clinical decision support improved chronic care outcomes with high use rates and high clinician satisfaction rates [review]
    EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2019
  • Clinical research data warehouse governance for distributed research networks in the USA: a systematic review of the literature [systematic review, review]
    Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2014
  • Data warehouse governance programs in healthcare settings: a literature review and a call to action [review]
    EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2013
  • Implementing patient-reported outcomes assessment in clinical practice: a review of the options and considerations [review]
    Quality of Life Research. 2012
  • Abstract
  • Maximizing use of chronic disease clinical decision support in primary care clinics: lessons learned from randomized trials [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • Patients deciding on cancer screening and prevention using clinical decision support: "I wouldn't have thought about getting screened without it" [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2021
  • Opioid prescribing during pregnancy: eight-year secular trends at 开云体育 Medical Group [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2017
  • Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients receiving opioid therapy during pregnancy [abstract]
    Pharmacotherapy. 2016
  • Patient-reported outcomes collected as part of the Medicare annual wellness visit in the Health Care Systems Research Network [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
  • Validation of the automated Diagnosis, Intractability, Risk Efficacy (DIRE) opioid risk assessment tool [abstract]
    Journal of patient-centered research and reviews. 2016
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