Rosa Baier

About

Rosa R. Baier is the Director of the Center for Long-Term Care Quality and Innovation and a Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University. Her work focuses on partnered, pragmatic research that aims to generate practical, real-world evidence to improve care for older adults in various settings. She leads the Long-Term Care Quality & Innovation (Q&I) Lab at Brown, collaborating with providers, health systems, and entrepreneurs nationwide to support embedded studies and improve care delivery. Baier co-developed the Readiness Assessment for Pragmatic Trials (RAPT) model to help teams assess and strengthen interventions for real-world testing. Before joining Brown in 2015 to establish Q&I, she spent 12 years directing Medicare- and state-funded quality improvement and reporting initiatives, including Rhode Island’s healthcare quality reporting program and a national goal-setting system used by most U.S. nursing homes. Her extensive experience in healthcare quality improvement continues to inform her research efforts, which are grounded in improving care for older adults at scale. Her research areas include assisted living, COVID-19, improvement science, infection prevention, nursing homes, pragmatic research, quality measurement, and implementation in the United States.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Computer Science
• Nursing
• Gerontology
• Internal medicine
• Database
• Virology

Selected publications

• Front-line Nursing Home Staff Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2020 · 414 citations

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• Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence‐Based Dementia Care Using Embedded Pragmatic Trials

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020 · 64 citations

  There are many nonpharmacologic interventions tested in randomized clinical trials that demonstrate significant benefits for people living with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-related dementia, their care partners, or professional care providers. Nevertheless, with few exceptions, proven interventions have not been translated for delivery in real-world settings, such as home care, primary care, hospitals, community-based services, adult day services, assisted living, nursing homes, or other heal…

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• Using Structured Observations to Evaluate the Effects of a Personalized Music Intervention on Agitated Behaviors and Mood in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: Results From an Embedded, Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial

  American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · 2023-11-02 · 15 citations

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• Preparing for pragmatic trials in dementia care: Health equity considerations for nonpharmacological interventions

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023-09-01 · 11 citations

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  Inequities with regard to brain health, economic costs, and the evidence base for dementia care continue. Achieving health equity in dementia care requires rigorous efforts that ensure disproportionately affected populations participate fully in-and benefit from-clinical research. Embedding-proven interventions under real-world conditions and within existing healthcare systems have the potential to examine the effectiveness of an intervention, improve dementia care, and leverage the use of exist…

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• Broad immunogenicity to prior SARS-CoV-2 strains and JN.1 variant elicited by XBB.1.5 vaccination in nursing home residents

  GeroScience · 2024-10-12 · 5 citations

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Recent grants

• Data Management and Methods Core

  NIH · $54.2M · 2007–2029

• Evaluating the impact of patient-centric home health quality reports

  NIH · $836k · 2012–2016

Frequent coauthors

• Stefan Gravenstein

  Brown University

  128 shared

• R. L. Gardner

  94 shared

• Ellen McCreedy

  Issues Research

  92 shared

• Vincent Mor

  Providence College

  79 shared

• Andrew R. Zullo

  Brown University

  47 shared

• Eric Jutkowitz

  Brown University

  40 shared

• Kali S. Thomas

  Johns Hopkins University

  40 shared

• A. Lynn Snow

  Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center

  38 shared

Education

• MPH, Program in Public Health

  Brown University School of Public Health

  2004

• BA

  Wellesley College

  2000

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