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Ruth G. Jenkins, Ph.D.
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Office address:
20 Ehrhardt Street, Charleston, SC 29425
Telephone/Fax: (843)
876-1210 / (843) 876-1211 (Fax)
Email address: jenkinrg@musc.edu
Departmental and administrative
position(s):
Research Assistant Professor |
Education / Training:
College: Georgia Southern College
MD/PhD: Medical University of South Carolina
Research / academic / clinical interests:
Medical Informatics
Bioinformatics
Medical Data Management
Web-based Information Systems
Statistical Applications in Medicine
Electronic Medical Records
Quality Improvement
Practice-Based Research Networks
Primary Care
Chronic Disease / Health Services Research
Selected or recent publications:
Miller PM, Stockdell R, Nemeth L, Feifer C, Jenkins R, Nietert
PJ, Wessell A, Liszka H, Ornstein S. Initial steps taken by nine
primary care practices to implement alcohol screening guidelines
with hypertensive patients: The AA-TRIP project. Substance Abuse
(in press).
Feifer C, Ornstein SM, Jenkins RG, Wessell AM, Corley ST, Nemeth
LS, Roylance L, Nietert PJ, Liszka, H: The logic behind a multi-method
intervention to improve adherence to clinical practice guidelines
in a nationwide network of primary care practices. Evaluation
& the Health Professions, 2006, 29(1): 65-88
Jenkins RG, Ornstein SM, Nietert PJ, Klockars SJ, Thiedke C:
Quality Improvement for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and
Stroke in an Academic Family Medicine Center: Do Racial Differences
in Outcome Exist? Ethnicity & Disease, 2006, 16: 132-137
Jenkins RG. Enabling Physicians with Clinical Data Harvested
from Internet Accessible Resources. Doctoral Dissertation. 2005.
Ornstein SM, Jenkins RG, Nietert PJ, Feifer C, Roylance LF, Nemeth
L, Corley S, Dickerson L, Bradford WD, Litvin, C: Multi-Method
Quality Improvement Intervention to Improve Cardiovascular Care:
A Cluster Randomized Trial, Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004;
141(7):523-532
Nietert PJ, Ornstein SM, Jenkins RG, Roylance LF, Dickerson L,
Feifer C. The effect of ethnicity on outcomes in a practice-based
trial to improve cardiovascular disease prevention. International
Journal for Equity in Health, 2004, 3:12
Ornstein SM, Jenkins RG, Ury AG. Clinical Informatics in Office
Practice. In: Rake RE, eds. Textbook of Family Practice 6th edition.
W.B. Saunders Company. 2002.
Nietert PJ, Jenkins RG, & Ornstein SM: Improving patient
cardiovascular outcomes through physician practice-level intervention:
power, sample size, and analysis considerations. American Journal
of Epidemiology, 2001; 153(11):S264.
Feifer C, Ornstein SM, Nietert PJ, Jenkins RG: System Supports
for Chronic Illness Care and Their Relationship to Clinical Outcomes.
Topics in Health Information Management, 2001; 22(2): 65-72
Ornstein SM, Hanson RM, Corley ST, Jenkins RG: High Performance
of Clinical Preventive Services: Approaches of “Best Practices”,
Preventive Medicine in Managed Care, 2001; 2(2): 79-84
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