Tag Archives: quality measure

Surveying Health Outcomes That Patients Are Most Qualified to Evaluate: Comments on Past, Present and Future Methods

By | February 3, 2025

While training to be a psychometrician I was blessed/cursed more than 50 years ago with a favorable response to a research proposal to improve tools that researchers increasingly used for surveying health outcomes but were rarely evaluated psychometrically. Knowing little about health, I found very useful the WHO’s 1948 definition of it as “a state… Read More »

Feasibility of MDS 3.0 in Constructing Meaningful End-of-Life Quality Measures

By | June 23, 2016

Since the launch of Nursing Home Compare (NHC) in 2002, consumers have had access to information about the quality of care provided by most nursing homes (NHs) throughout the country. The intention is to help consumers distinguish among NHs and motivate informed decision making based on quality. For NHC to be useful, the quality measures… Read More »