Tag Archives: quality measurement

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

By | February 3, 2025
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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 »

Potential effects of COVID-19 on health care utilization and quality measures

By | September 17, 2020
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What are the potential impacts of COVID-19 on health care utilization? How will changes in healthcare use impact quality measures? Researchers are asking many key questions to understand the impacts of COVID-19. It is clear that trends in healthcare use are changing. These changes will likely affect quality measure scores in the future. This is… Read More »