Marc N. Elliott
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Education
Overview
Biography
Marc N. Elliott is a senior statistician at the RAND Corporation. His areas of interest and experience include survey sampling, experimental design, causal inference, and case-mix adjustment (CMA). His substantive areas of interest and experience include consumer experiences with health care, profiling of health care institutions, health disparities, Medicare, vulnerable populations, adolescent health, mental health, and media effects on health behavior. He is the principal investigator of the CMS Medicare CAHPS® (Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems) Analysis project, assessing the experience of 400,000 surveyed beneficiaries annually with their health care and examining these experiences as functions of insurance type, geography, and beneficiary characteristics. He leads a subcontract investigating mode effects, CMA, and substantive aspects of the CAHPS Hospital Survey. Since 1996, he has been RAND's lead statistician on the AHRQ CAHPS I-III projects. He leads an Office of Minority Health project developing novel, cost-effective sampling and analytic methods to improve national health estimates for small racial/ethnic subgroups. As the RAND/UCLA CDC Center for Adolescent Health Promotion's statistician, Elliott provides cross-site leadership of design/analytic work on the multisite CDC Healthy Passages study, a longitudinal study of more than 5,000 fifth-grade children. Elliott, a summa cum laude graduate of Rice University and a member of the American Statistical Association, has published more than 150 articles in a range of journals, including JAMA, NEJM, BMJ, JGIM, AJPH, Health Services Research, Medical Care, Pediatrics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Statistics in Medicine, Survey Methodology, and Chance. Elliott received his Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Consumer evaluations of Medicare, hospitals
- Health disparities for small racial/ethnic groups
Selected Publications
Elliott MN, Haviland A, et al., "Adjusting for Subgroup Differences in Extreme Response Tendency When Rating Health Care: Impact on Dispartiy Estimates," Health Services Research, 44(2p1):542-561, 2009
Elliott MN, Zaslavsky AM, et al., "Effects of Survey Mode, Patient Mix, and Nonresponse on CAHPS Hospital Survey Scores," Health Services Research, 44(2):501-508, 2009
Elliott MN, McCaffrey D, et al., "Use of Expert Ratings as Sampling Strata for a More Cost-Effective Probability Sample of a Rare Population," Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(1):56-73, 2009
Elliott MN, Fremont A, et al., "A New Method for Estimating Race/Ethnicity and Associated Disparities Where Administrative Records Lack Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity," Health Services Research, 43(5p1):1722-1736, 2008
Elliott MN, Beckett MK, et al., "How Do Proxy Responses and Proxy-Assisted Responses Differ from What Medicare Beneficiaries Might Have Reported About Their Health Care?" Health Services Research, 43(3):833-848, 2008
Elliott MN, Finch BK, et al., "Sample Designs for Measuring the Health of Small Racial Ethnic Subgroups," Statistics in Medicine, 27(20):4016-4029, 2008
Elliott MN, Haviland A., "Use of a Web-based Convenience Sample to Supplement and Improve the Accuracy of a Probability Sample," Survey Methodology, 33(2):211-215, 2007
Elliott MN, Lehrman WG, et al., "Do Hospital Rankings on HCAHPS Vary for Patients with Different Characteristics," Medical Care Research and Review
Honors & Awards
- 2007 President's Merit Bonus Award, RAND
- 2005 Silver Merit Bonus Award, RAND
- Summa Cum Laude, Rice University
Statistics
Biography
Marc N. Elliott is a senior statistician at the RAND Corporation. His areas of interest and experience include survey sampling, experimental design, causal inference, and case-mix adjustment (CMA). His substantive areas of interest and experience include consumer experiences with health care, profiling of health care institutions, health disparities, Medicare, vulnerable populations, adolescent health, mental health, and media effects on health behavior. He is the principal investigator of the CMS Medicare CAHPS® (Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems) Analysis project, assessing the experience of 400,000 surveyed beneficiaries annually with their health care and examining these experiences as functions of insurance type, geography, and beneficiary characteristics. He leads a subcontract investigating mode effects, CMA, and substantive aspects of the CAHPS Hospital Survey. Since 1996, he has been RAND's lead statistician on the AHRQ CAHPS I-III projects. He leads an Office of Minority Health project developing novel, cost-effective sampling and analytic methods to improve national health estimates for small racial/ethnic subgroups. As the RAND/UCLA CDC Center for Adolescent Health Promotion's statistician, Elliott provides cross-site leadership of design/analytic work on the multisite CDC Healthy Passages study, a longitudinal study of more than 5,000 fifth-grade children. Elliott, a summa cum laude graduate of Rice University and a member of the American Statistical Association, has published more than 150 articles in a range of journals, including JAMA, NEJM, BMJ, JGIM, AJPH, Health Services Research, Medical Care, Pediatrics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Statistics in Medicine, Survey Methodology,and Chance. Elliott received his Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University.
Recent Projects
- Analysis of Medicare CAHPS Survey
- Coordination of the National Implementation of the Hospital CAHPS Survey
- Statistical Methods for the Measurement of Health Status in Small Racial Ethnic Subgroups
Selected Publications
Elliott MN, Haviland A, et al., "Adjusting for Subgroup Differences in Extreme Response Tendency When Rating Health Care: Impact on Disparity Estimates," Health Services Research, 44(2p1):542-561, 2009
Elliott MN, Zaslavsky AM, et al., "Effects of Survey Mode, Patient Mix, and Nonresponse on CAHPS Hospital Survey Scores," Health Services Research, 44(2):501-508, 2009
Elliott MN, McCaffrey D, et al., "Use of Expert Ratings as Sampling Strata for a More Cost-Effective Probability Sample of a Rare Population," Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(1):56-73, 2009
Elliott MN, Fremont A, et al., "A New Method for Estimating Race/Ethnicity and Associated Disparities Where Administrative Records Lack Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity," Health Services Research, 43(5p1):1722-1736, 2008
Elliott MN, Beckett MK, et al., "How Do Proxy Responses and Proxy-Assisted Responses Differ from What Medicare Beneficiaries Might Have Reported About Their Health Care," Health Services Research, 43(3):833-848, 2008
Elliott MN, Finch BK, et al., "Sample Designs for Measuring the Health of Small Racial Ethnic Subgroups," Statistics in Medicine, 27(20):4016-4029, 2008
Elliott MN, Haviland A., "Use of a Web-based Convenience Sample to Supplement and Improve the Accuracy of a Probability Sample," Survey Methodology, 33(2):211-215, 2007
Elliott MN, Lehrman WG, et al., "Do Hospital Rankings on HCAHPS Vary for Patients with Differing Characteristics," Medical Care Research and Review
Honors & Awards
- 2007 President's Merit Bonus Award, RAND
- 2005 Silver Merit Bonus Award, RAND
- Summa Cum Laude, Rice University
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