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Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Ph.D. Professor E-mail: mholmes@msu.edu Phone: (517) 353-5197 |
Biographical information
I am a Professor of Health Services Research in the Center with joint appointments in the Colleges of Human Medicine and Nursing. I teach health policy, ethics, and information management. My research focuses on supporting evidence-based patient choice and shared decision-making, improving provider-patient communication, and improving patient self-management in chronic disease. I received the PhD in curriculum and sociology at the University of Wisconsin in 1980, and joined the faculty of Michigan State University in medical decision making the same year.
I have been fortunate to have collaborators at national and international levels in the field of medical decision-making and technology assessment, as well as locally. I was the first woman elected President of the Society for Medical Decision Making in 1993, and have served in many other roles in the Society, receiving the Eugene Saenger Award for Distinguished Service in 1999. At an international level, I am a founding member of the Shared Decision Making Forum-2000, funded by the Nuffield Trust to increase collaboration between North America and the United Kingdom (UK) in development, evaluation and implementation of shared decision-making. The Forum has spawned the International Shared Decision Making conference, whose fourth meeting will take place in Germany in May, 2007.
Research interests
I have done descriptive and prescriptive studies of patient and physician decision-making. More recently I have developed decision support tools, and decision aid evaluation measures, and served as Chair of the Health Literacy Expert Panel of the International Consensus on Standards for Developing and Evaluating Patient Decision Aids (www.IPDAS.ohri.ca). My other on-going scholarship is in the areas of health literacy, chronic disease management, and use of the electronic medical record (EMR) in the medical school curriculum and to increase patients’ participation in their care.
Recent Publications
Dunn, S, Corser, W, Stommel, M, Holmes-Rovner, M. Hopelessness and depression in the early recovery period after hospitalization for acute coronary syndrome. Forthcoming, Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation.
Holtrop JS, Corser W, Spence-Jones G, Brooks G, Stommel M, Holmes-Rovner M. Health Behavior Goals of Cardiac Patients After Hospitalization. Forthcoming, Amer Jl of Hlth. Behavior.
Holmes-Rovner M, Price C, Rovner DR, Kelly-Blake K, Lillie JA, Wills C, Bonham V. Persistence of men’s theories about BPH and prostate cancer following a decision aid Forthcoming, Jl Gen Intern Med, January, 2006.
Wills CE, Holmes-Rovner M. Integrating Decision-Making and Mental Health Intervention Research: Research Directions. Clinical Psychology. Science and Practice, 2006, 13(1): 9-25.
Wills CE, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D, Lillie JA, Kelly-Blake K, Bonham V, Williams G. Treatment Preference Patterns During a Videotape Decision Aid for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH). Forthcoming, Patient Education and Counseling.
Kelly-Blake K, Holmes-Rovner M, Wills CE, Rovner DR, Lillie JA, Price C, Bonham V. Older Men and Sexual Function: Is BPH Treatment a High Stakes Decision? In press, International Journal of Men’s Health.
Holmes-Rovner M. Skills for Communicating with Patients: book review. Health Expectations, 2005, 8:277.
Holmes-Rovner M. Consequences of increased patient choice. Health Expectations 2005, 8 (1):1.
Elstein AS, Fryback DG, Weinstein MC, Pauker G, Holmes-Rovner M, Young MJ, Barry MJ, Eckman MH, Hunink MGM, Tsevat J, Wong JB Presidential Reflections on the 25 th Anniversary of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Med Decis Making (2004); 24: 408-420.
Rovner DR, Wills CE, Bonham V, Williams G, Lillie J, Kelly-Blake K, Williams MV, Holmes-Rovner M. Decision Aids for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Applicability across Race and Education. Med Decis Makng 2004;24:359-366.
Hembroff LA, Holmes-Rovner M, Wills C. Treatment Decision-making and the form of risk communication: results of a factorial survey. BMC Med Informat Decis Making 2004, 4:20.
Olomu AB, Watson RE; Siddiqi A; Dwamena FC, McIntosh B, Vasilenko P, Kupersmith J, Holmes-Rovner MM, for Michigan State University Inter-Institutional Collaborative Heart (MICH) Study Group. Changes in Rates of Beta-blocker Use in Community Hospital Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction. Jl Gen Intern Med 2004; 19 (Issue 10): 999-1005
Fagerlin A, Rovner DR, Stableford S, Wei, JT, Jentoft C, Holmes-Rovner M. Patient Education Materials about the Treatment of Early-Stage Prostate Cancer: A Critical Review. Annals of Internal Medicine (May, 2004); 140; 9 (721-728).
O'Connor AM, Stacey D, Entwistle V, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Rovner D, Holmes-Rovner M, Tait V, Tetroe J, Fiset V, Barry M, Jones J. Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(2):CD001431. Review.
Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D, Wei J, Fagerlin A, Stableford S. Making the Choice: Deciding What to do about early stage prostate cancer. Publication of the Michigan Cancer Consortium, September, 2003. Also available as an audio tape and CD. www.prostatecancerdecision.org. Last accessed 9/2004.
Wills C, Holmes-Rovner M. Preliminary Validation of the Satisfaction With Decision Scale With Depressed Primary Care Patients. Health Expectations; 2003; 6: 149-159.
Edwards A, Elwyn G, Hood K, Robling M, Atwell C, Holmes-Rovner M, Kinnersley P, Houston H, Russell I. The development of COMRADE – a patient-based outcome measure to evaluate the effectiveness of risk communication and treatment decision making in consultations. Patient Education and Counseling: 2003: 50 (3): 311-322.
Holmes-Rovner M, Charles S. Media coverage of the breast cancer controversy: Who and what is heard? Patient Education and Counseling: September, 2003:51 (1):75-81.
Wills C, Holmes-Rovner M. Patient Comprehension of Information for Shared Treatment Decision Making: State of the Art and Future Directions. Patient Education and Counseling: 2003: 50: 5: 285-290.
Polverejan, E. Gardiner, J., Bradley, C., Holmes-Rovner, M. and Rovner, D . “Estimating Mean Hospital Cost as a Function of Length of Stay and Patient Characteristics” Health Economics, (2003) 12: 935-947.
Ebell M, Schwartz K, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner D. Shared decision-making tools for mammography in women age 40-49. http://www.aafp.org/clinical/tools/. Last accessed, March, 2002.
Holmes-Rovner, M, Wills, CE. Improving informed consent: Insights from behavioral decision analysis. Medical Care. 2002: 40:V30-V38
Holmes-Rovner M, Williams GA, Quillan L, Hoppough S, Butler R, Given CW. Colorectal Cancer Screening Barriers to increased participation by gender and race. Cancer Practice. 2002; 10:5:
