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Barbara DiCicco-Bloom

Researcher at City University of New York

Publications -  29
Citations -  6495

Barbara DiCicco-Bloom is an academic researcher from City University of New York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Qualitative research. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 29 publications receiving 5908 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara DiCicco-Bloom include The Graduate Center, CUNY & Rutgers University.

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Speaking of weight: how patients and primary care clinicians initiate weight loss counseling

TL;DR: Strategies that increase the likelihood of patients identifying weight as a problem, or that provide clinicians with a way to "medicalize" the patient's obesity, are likely to increase the frequency of weight loss counseling in primary care visits.
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Delivery of clinical preventive services in family medicine offices.

TL;DR: Practice quality improvement efforts that assume there is an optimal approach for delivering clinical preventive services fail to account for practices’ propensity to optimize care processes to meet local contexts.
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The racial and gendered experiences of immigrant nurses from Kerala, India.

TL;DR: The experiences of a group of immigrant women nurses regarding their life and work in a culture other than their own are described to underscore the continuing inequities of the health care system.
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Electronic Medical Records and Diabetes Quality of Care: Results From a Sample of Family Medicine Practices

TL;DR: The use of an EMR in primary care practices is insufficient for insuring high-quality diabetes care and efforts to expand EMR use should focus not only on improving technology but also on developing methods for implementing and integrating this technology into practice reality.
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Variation in Electronic Prescribing Implementation Among Twelve Ambulatory Practices

TL;DR: Practice leaders should plan implementation carefully, ensuring that practice members prepare for the effective integration of this technology into clinical workflow, to describe the practice characteristics associated with implementation and use of e-prescribing in ambulatory settings.