Prescription for Health Analysis Team (A-Team)

RWJF separately funds an Analysis Team (A-Team) to assess the program’s progress in developing and applying novel, practical approaches to promoting healthy behaviors in primary care practices. Under the leadership of Dr. Deborah Cohen, the A-Team will facilitate the learning of overarching lessons that transcend any single project and provide regular feedback to each funded PBRN that can be used to enhance projects and evaluate their outcomes.

The 10 Round 2 PBRNS will collect the following:

Practice-Level Survey Data

At baseline and at the end of the study, projects will complete a Practice Information Form (PIF) for each practice participating in their project. The PIF is completed by PBRN staff in collaboration with the office manager and/or physician manager of each participating practice. PIF data include key characteristics of the practice as well as a list of all clinicians and staff, their roles, length of service, and hours worked per week.

Online Diaries

A confidential “room” has been established for each project on a secure web site for posting project updates and for “real time” correspondence with the Analysis Team. Each project will identify investigators and staff who will post regular diary entries. The Analysis Team will work with each project to identify those members who will make the diary entries. Members of the team will read diary postings as they are entered and will respond, posing questions and identifying areas for clarification. These online diaries help document the process and context of each project’s implementation. Additionally, as each project has access to its own diary, diaries also serve as a resource to projects as they evaluate their initiatives.

A-Team members will perform ongoing analyses of the diary data as a means of capturing what is being learned by individual projects and by Prescription for Health projects collectively. The team will summarize PIF, site visit and diary data to create a detailed confidential report that will be shared with the principal investigator of each project. While project-specific insights will be shared only with individual principal investigators, overall learning from the Prescription for Health initiative will be shared with all projects, the NPO and RWJF.

Mailing Address:
Analysis Team
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department of Family Medicine, Research Division
One World’s Fair Drive, Room #10
Somerset, NJ 08873

Phone: 732–743-3232
Fax: 732–743-3395

A-Team Staff

*Deborah Cohen, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Communication Analyst

Benjamin Crabtree, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator and Research Director

Alfred Tallia, M.D.
Co-Investigator and Co-Chair UMDNJ, Dept. of Family Medicine

Nicole Isaacson, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator

Bijal Balasubramanian, M.B.B.S., M.P.H.
Quantitative Analyst

Rebecca Etz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow - Cultural Anthropologist

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* Primary Contact for A-Team