Mary E. Reed, DrPH

mary.e.reed@kp.org

Mary E. Reed, DrPH, is a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. Her research interests include health information technology and health care delivery organization and their effects on clinical care, quality, and costs; and patient knowledge, attitudes, and decision making with respect to health insurance. She received her DrPH at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.

Current Positions

Research Scientist III, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California

Section Affiliations

Health Care Delivery and Policy

Primary Research Interests

Patient cost-sharing
Health information technology
Chronic disease care

Related Websites

CREST Network

Studies

Employing Computational Linguistics In Patient-Provider Secure Exchanges for Comparative Effectiveness Research

Employing Computational Linguistics In Patient-Provider Secure Exchanges for Comparative Effectiveness Research
This methods-focused project aims to develop novel methods to deidentify secure message text data, and to identify when such exchanges involve comparative effectiveness deliberations related to two or more clinical options in patients with diabetes. These new methods will support research examining the extent of comparative effectiveness deliberations in routine online care.
Funder: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Investigator: Reed, Mary

Funder: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

Remote blood pressure monitoring during pregnancy: patient characteristics and clinical impacts

This study will examine uptake and outcome impacts of remote blood pressure monitoring for pregnant women with hypertension in Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2022-2023, after the initial COVID-19 emergency, to inform ongoing operational and clinical programs.Our primary research questions are: What patient characteristics are associated with use of remote monitoring among eligible patients (compared with non-remote monitoring follow-up) and to what degree does enrollment in and use of remote blood pressure monitoring impact patient health care utilization and/or clinical outcomes.

Investigator: Reed, Mary

Funder: Northern California Community Benefit Programs

Assessing the Long-term Impact of COVID-induced Telemedicine Expansion on Dementia Care

The major goal of this project is to generate robust evidence on the impact of the COVID-induced shift to telemedicine on dementia care. Specifically, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we seek to characterize disparities in use of ambulatory telemedicine for persons with dementia, assess the impact of telemedicine on diagnosis and outcomes for persons with dementia during, and characterize clinician and caregiver experience with ambulatory telemedicine.

Investigator: Reed, Mary

Funder: National Institute on Aging

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) in adult KPNC members

This study will establish a cohort of adult KPNC members with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and identify those with a confirmed diagnosis of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection to examine predictors, clinical care characteristics, and associated diagnostic and specialty care utilization.

Investigator: Reed, Mary

Funder: TPMG Delivery Science Projects Program

Patient experiences with Value-Based Insurance Designs (VBID) in Kaiser Permanente: Plan Knowledge and Medication Behavior

The study will examine patient knowledge and experience in a Value-based insurance designs plan by surveying 1,000 patients newly enrolling in a VBID plan. The survey will collect patient knowledge of their plan, patient-reported medication behavior (including specific cost barriers to adherence and financial burden, and preferences for receiving additional education/nudges about medication costs and hypothetical behavior changes with free preventive medications.

Investigator: Reed, Mary

Funder: Northern California Community Benefit Programs

Assessing and Optimizing the Impact of an Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tool for Chest Pain Risk Stratification in the Emergency Department STEWARD Project (Phase 3)

Conducted with co-investigator Dustin G. Mark, MD, this study helps emergency physicians with estimates of individual patient risk for patients with chest pain. The research team will evaluate impacts on guideline-supported acute coronary syndrome evaluations.

Investigator: Reed, Mary

Funder: The Permanente Medical Group

Patient Choice of Telemedicine Encounters

Investigator: Reed, Mary

Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Interactive Personal Health Records: Use of a Web-Portal by Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions

Patient use of health IT tools to interact with healthcare providers and delivery systems, including exchanging secure messages with their medical providers and using other web-based tools, has great potential to increase patient access to care, change the way healthcare is delivered, and affect patient clinical outcomes. This study will examine the impact of implementation and use of consumer health IT tools on patient-reported access to care, utilization of medical care services, and clinical outcomes.

Investigator: Reed, Mary

Funder: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Impact of Integrated Patient-Facing Health IT Tools on Quality and Resource Use for Patients with Diabetes

This is a quasi-experimental study of the effect of Health IT use on the quality and efficiency of outpatient care for patients with multiple chronic diseases.

Investigator: Reed, Mary

Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Publications

Primary Care Telemedicine and Care Continuity: Implications for Timeliness and Short-term Follow-up Healthcare

Authors: Graetz, Ilana;Huang, Jie;Gopalan, Anjali;Muelly, Emilie;Millman, Andrea;Reed, Mary E

J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Oct;39(13):2454-2460. Epub 2024-07-17.

Mary E. Reed, DrPH

Current Positions

Section Affiliations

Primary Research Interests

Related Websites

Studies

Employing Computational Linguistics In Patient-Provider Secure Exchanges for Comparative Effectiveness Research

Remote blood pressure monitoring during pregnancy: patient characteristics and clinical impacts

Assessing the Long-term Impact of COVID-induced Telemedicine Expansion on Dementia Care

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) in adult KPNC members

Patient experiences with Value-Based Insurance Designs (VBID) in Kaiser Permanente: Plan Knowledge and Medication Behavior

Assessing and Optimizing the Impact of an Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tool for Chest Pain Risk Stratification in the Emergency Department STEWARD Project (Phase 3)

Patient Choice of Telemedicine Encounters

Interactive Personal Health Records: Use of a Web-Portal by Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions

Impact of Integrated Patient-Facing Health IT Tools on Quality and Resource Use for Patients with Diabetes

Publications

Primary Care Telemedicine and Care Continuity: Implications for Timeliness and Short-term Follow-up Healthcare

Downstream Emergency Department and Hospital Utilization Comparably Low Following In-Person Versus Telemedicine Primary Care for High-Risk Conditions

Emergency Severity Index Version 4 and Triage of Pediatric Emergency Department Patients

“Complete and Accurate, and Warmhearted Too”: Telemedicine Experiences and Care Needs of Mandarin-Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency

Video and phone visit use differed by language preference among U.S. Latino and Chinese adults during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional electronic health record study

Pilot trial of an electronic decision support to improve care for emergency department patients with acute heart failure

Patterns of Telemedicine Use in Primary Care for People with Dementia in the Post-pandemic Period

Comparison of Short-Term Health Care Utilization Between Telemedicine-Delivered vs In-Person Care Visits for Heart Failure

Emergency Department Referral of Patients With Chest Pain for Noninvasive Cardiac Testing and 2-Year Clinical Outcomes

An all-inclusive model for predicting invasive bacterial infection in febrile infants age 7-60 days

Smells like a variant: How the association between COVID-19 and olfactory dysfunction changed between 2019 and 2022

Shifts in Diagnostic Testing for Headache in the Emergency Department, 2015 to 2021

Care Partner Engagement in Secure Messaging Between Patients With Diabetes and Their Clinicians: Cohort Study

Disposition of emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism after ambulance arrival

Physicians’ Perceptions of Clinical Decision Support to Treat Patients With Heart Failure in the ED

Patient-reported Primary Care Video and Telephone Telemedicine Preference Shifts During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Telemedicine Versus In-Person Primary Care: Treatment and Follow-up Visits

CA FIRST (California Febrile Infant Risk Stratification Tool) Algorithm Development in a Learning Health System

Bilateral Emboli and Highest Heart Rate Predict Hospitalization of Emergency Department Patients With Acute, Low-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

Association of Medical Assistant Virtual Rooming with Vital Signs Documentation and Health Behavior Screening in Patients with Diabetes

Prevalence of and Eligibility for Surveillance Without Anticoagulation Among Adults With Lower-Risk Acute Subsegmental Pulmonary Embolism

Automated analysis of unstructured clinical assessments improves emergency department triage performance: A retrospective deep learning analysis

CT Use Reduction In Ostensive Ureteral Stone (CURIOUS)

Clinical decision support to Optimize Care of patients with Atrial Fibrillation or flutter in the Emergency department: protocol of a stepped-wedge cluster randomized pragmatic trial (O’CAFÉ trial)

Evaluation of the Emergency Severity Index in US Emergency Departments for the Rate of Mistriage

Cross-Sectional Association of Patient Language and Patient-Provider Language Concordance with Video Telemedicine Use Among Patients with Limited English Proficiency

Mortality Following Diagnosis of Nontraumatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage Within an Integrated “Hub-and-Spoke” Neuroscience Care Model: Is Spoke Presentation Noninferior to Hub Presentation?

Primary care video and telephone telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: treatment and follow-up health care utilization

The association between video or telephone telemedicine visit type and orders in primary care

Telemedicine implementation trends in surgical specialties before and after COVID-19 shelter in place: Adjusting to a changing landscape

Management and Outcomes of Adults Diagnosed with Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Primary Care: Community-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

Barriers and Opportunities Regarding Implementation of a Machine Learning-Based Acute Heart Failure Risk Stratification Tool in the Emergency Department

Current Emergency Department Disposition of Patients With Acute Heart Failure: An Opportunity for Improvement

Strategies Facilitating Video Visit Implementation by a Medical Group Serving a Diverse Population

Primary Care Visits Are Timelier When Patients Choose Telemedicine: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

Opioid safety initiative associated with decreased emergency department opioid prescribing

Risk adjusted 30-day mortality and serious adverse event rates among a large, multi-center cohort of emergency department patients with acute heart failure

Association of Medical Assistant-Supported Virtual Rooming With Successful Video Visit Connections

Higher intensity of 72-hour non-invasive cardiac test referral does not improve short-term outcomes among emergency department patients with chest pain

Sustainability of a Clinical Decision Support Intervention for Outpatient Care for Emergency Department Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Association Between High-Deductible Health Plans and Engagement in Routine Medical Care for Type 2 Diabetes in a Privately Insured Population: A Propensity Score-Matched Study

Video Telehealth Access and Changes in HbA1c Among People With Diabetes

Primary care telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: patient’s choice of video versus telephone visit

Future of Teleoncology: Trends and Disparities in Telehealth and Secure Message Utilization in the COVID-19 Era

Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality

Computed Tomography Use in Children With Minor Head Trauma Presenting to 21 Community Emergency Departments Within an Integrated Health-Care System

Graded Coronary Risk Stratification for Emergency Department Patients With Chest Pain: A Controlled Cohort Study

Disparities in Use of Video Telemedicine Among Patients With Limited English Proficiency During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Attitudes and Perceptions of Multidisciplinary Cancer Care Clinicians Toward Telehealth and Secure Messages

Treatment and Follow-up Care Associated With Patient-Scheduled Primary Care Telemedicine and In-Person Visits in a Large Integrated Health System

Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients evaluated in the emergency department: A retrospective cohort study of 801 cases

Outcomes among acute heart failure emergency department patients by preserved vs. reduced ejection fraction

Descriptive examination of secure messaging in a longitudinal cohort of diabetes patients in the ECLIPPSE study

Physician Stress During Electronic Health Record Inbox Work: In Situ Measurement With Wearable Sensors

Physicians’ electronic inbox work patterns and factors associated with high inbox work duration

Prospective Validation and Comparative Analysis of Coronary Risk Stratification Strategies Among Emergency Department Patients With Chest Pain

Acute Kidney Injury After CT in Emergency Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Propensity Score-matched Analysis

Patient e-Visit Use and Outcomes for Common Symptoms in an Integrated Health Care Delivery System

Predictors of Acute Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter Hospitalization across 7 U.S. Emergency Departments: A Prospective Study

Use of Machine Learning to Develop a Risk-Stratification Tool for Emergency Department Patients With Acute Heart Failure

Evaluation of Attention Switching and Duration of Electronic Inbox Work Among Primary Care Physicians

60-day major adverse cardiac events in emergency department patients with non-low modified HEART scores

Inpatient-outpatient shared electronic health records: telemedicine and laboratory follow-up after hospital discharge

Automated retrospective calculation of the EDACS and HEART scores in a multicenter prospective cohort of emergency department chest pain patients