Publications

Rita Kukafka

Assistant Professor Public Health (Sociomedical Sciences)

and Medical Informatics


 






Original, peer reviewed

Russo RM, Harvey B, Kukafka R, Supino P, Freis PC, Hamilton P. The use of community health aids in an urban school health program. J School Health 1982; Sept;52(7):425-427.

Kukafka R, Lussier YA, Patel VL, Cimino JJ. Modeling patient response to AMI: implications for a tailored technology based program to reduce patient delay. Proc AMIA Symp 1999:570-574.

Lussier YA, Kukafka R, Cimino JJ. Overcoming the barriers of WEB-based interventions for elder patients: enabling strategies for the MI HEART clinical trial. Proc AMIA Sym 1999:1110.

Bakken S, Cimino J, Haskel R, Kukafka R, Chan G, Matsumoto C, Juff S. Evaluation of the clinical LOINC (Logical observation identifiers, names, and codes) semantic structure as a terminology model for standardized assessment measures. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2000:
Nov-Dec;7(6):529-38.

Lussier YA, Kukafka R, Patel VL, Cimino JJ. Formal combinations of guidelines: a requirement for self-administered personalized health education. Proc AMIA Symp 2000: 522-6.

Kukafka R, Lussier, YA, Cimino JJ. Eng P. Developing and evaluating theory-based education content for WEB application. Proc AMIA Symp 2000:1056.

Chuang J, Kukafka R, Lussier YA, Jenders RA, Cimino J. A Web-based system for prediction of coronary heart disease risk using the framingham algorithm. Proc AMIA Symp 2000:983.

Lussier YA, Wang D, Kukafka R, CImino, J. Improving the development of composite educational guidelines using decomposition of concept lattices. Proc AMIA Symp 2000:1073.

Kukafka R, Lussier YA, Patel VL, Cimino J. Developing Tailored Theory-Based Educational Content for WEB Applications: Illustrations from the MI-HEART Project. MedInfo2001. In Press.

Kukafka R, Lussier Y, Patel, Cimino J. The MI-HEART Project: Information technology (IT) for one-to-one tailored patient communication. Proc AMIA Symp 2001. In press.

Houston TK, Chang B, Brown S, Kukafka R. Consumer health informatics: A consensus description and commentary from the American Medical Informatics Association Membership. Proc AMIA Symp 2001. In press.

Kukafka R, O'Carroll PW, Gerberding JL, Shortliffe EH, Aliferis C, Lumpkin JR, Yasnoff WA.

Issues and Opportunities in public health informatics: A panel discussion. J of Public Health Practice and Management. In press.

Yasnoff WA, Overhage JM, Humphreys B, LaVenture M, Goodman K, Gatewood L, Reid J, Hammond E, Dwyer D, Huff S, Gotham I, Kukafka R, Loonsk J, Wagner M. A national agenda for public health informatics. J of Public Health Practice and Management.

Abstracts

Kukafka R. HeartWise Dining. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 1, 1995.

Kukafka R. Prevention in clinical practice: five-year follow up of an intervention to promote National Cholesterol Education (NCEP) Guidelines. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, New York, November 17, 1996.

Kukafka R. Osteoporosis: an integrated approach to counseling on lifestyle modification. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 18, 1998. Abstracts, Session 1044, p.26.

Kukafka R, Allegrante JP. Health promotion in the midst of a technology revolution. Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education, Chicago, IL, November 7, 1999.

Kukafka R, Lussier, YA, Cimino JJ. Evaluating web-based tailored health communications:Illustrations from the MI-HEART project. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 24, 2001. Abstract Session 5069.

Brennan P, Glassman B, Houston TK, Kukafka, R. Public health informatics and consumer health informatics: Enhancing the collaboration. Proc AMIA Symp 2001.