Ron D. Hays

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Adjunct Researcher
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in psychology, University of California, Riverside

Overview

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Recent Projects

  • Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)

Selected Publications

R. D. Hays et al., "Application of Structural Equation Modeling to Health Outcomes Research," Evaluation & the Health Professions, 28(3), 2005

R. D. Hays et al., "Approaches and Recommendations for Estimating Minimally Important Differences for Health-Related Quality of Life Measures," COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2(1), 2005

R. D. Hays et al., "Evaluating the Statistical Significance of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Change in Individual Patients," Evaluation & the Health Professions, 28(1), 2005

Publications

Development of a Prognostic Model for Six-Month Mortality in Older Adults with Declining Health - 2012

Rasch Analysis in the Development of a Simplified Version of the National Eye Institute Visual-Function Questionnaire-25 for Utility Estimation - 2012

Depression and the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries - 2011

Differential Item Functioning By Survey Language Among Older Hispanics Enrolled in Medicare Managed Care - 2011

Minimally Important Differences of the UCLA Scleroderma Clinical Trial Consortium Gastrointestinal Tract Instrument - 2011

Patient Education Integrated with Acupuncture for Relief of Cancer-Related Fatigue Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study - 2011

The Impact of Menopause on Health-Related Quality of Life: Results from the STRIDE Longitudinal Study - 2011

A Randomized Study of Scleroderma Health State Values: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, and Quite a Few Utilities - 2009

Adapting CAHPS for an American Indian Population - 2009

Adjusting for Subgroup Differences in Extreme Response Tendency in Ratings of Health Care: Impact on Disparity Estimates - 2009

Psychometric Properties of an Instrument to Assess Medicare Beneficiaries' Prescription Drug Plan Experiences - 2009

Responsiveness and Construct Validity of the Health Utilities Index in Patients with Dementia - 2009

Access to Care for Youth with Special Health Care Needs in the Transition to Adulthood - 2008

Bridging from the Picker Hospital Survey to the CAHPS Hospital Survey - 2008

Can Additional Patient Experience Items Improve the Reliability of and Add New Domains to the CAHPS Hospital Survey? - 2008

Evaluating Differential Item Functioning of the PRIME-MD Mood Module Among Impoverished Black and White Women in Primary Care - 2008

Evaluating the SF-36 health survey (version 2) in older Vietnamese Americans - 2008

How Do Proxy Responses and Proxy-Assisted Responses Differ from What Medicare Beneficiaries Might Have Reported About Their Health Care? - 2008

Language and Regional Differences in Evaluations of Medicare Managed Care By Hispanics - 2008

Recommended Methods for Determining Responsiveness and Minimally Important Differences for Patient Reported Outcomes - 2008

Reports and Ratings of Care: Black and White Medicare Enrollees - 2008

Survey Response Style and Differential Use of CAHPS Rating Scales By Hispanics - 2008

The Minimally Important Difference for the Fatigue Visual Analog Scale in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Followed in an Academic Clinical Practice - 2008

Validating the Link Between Good Physician Process of Care and Better Health-Related Quality of Life for Patients - 2008

A Comparison of Three Sets of Criteria for Determining the Presence of Differential Item Functioning Using Ordinal Logistic Regression - 2007

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Tai Chi for Tension Headaches - 2007

Correlated Physical and Mental Summary Scores for the SF-36 and SF-12 Health Survey, V.1 - 2007

Developing a Spanish-language Consumer Report for CAHPS Health Plan Surveys - 2007

Development of a Preliminary Scleroderma Gastrointestinal Tract 1.0 Quality of Life Instrument - 2007

Does Ambulatory Process of Care Predict Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Disease? - 2007

Ethnic Variations in Dementia Caregiving Experiences: Insights from Focus Groups - 2007

IRT Health Outcomes Data Analysis Project: an Overview and Summary - 2007

Item Response Theory Analyses of Physical Functioning Items in the Medical Outcomes Study - 2007

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS - 2007

Next Steps for Use of Item Response Theory in the Assessment of Health Outcomes - 2007

Precision of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Data Compared with Other Clinical Measures - 2007

Psychometric Evaluation and Calibration of Health-Related Quality of Life Item Banks: Plans for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) - 2007

Reliability, Validity, and Minimally Important Differences of the SF-6D in Systemic Sclerosis - 2007

Repeated Measures Analyses of Dose Timing of Antiretroviral Medication and Its Relationship to HIV Virologic Outcomes - 2007

Severity of Visual Field Loss and Health-Related Quality of Life - 2007

The Role of the Bifactor Model in Resolving Dimensionality Issues in Health Outcomes Measures - 2007

The SF-36 Physical and Mental Health Factors Were Confirmed in Cancer and HIV/AIDS Patients - 2007

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Survey Questions for Adherence to Antiretroviral Medications and Exploratory Analyses for Identifying Optimal Sets of Survey Questions - 2006

A Pilot Study of Health Beliefs and Attitudes Concerning Measures of Antiretroviral Adherence Among Prisoners Receiving Directly Observed Antiretroviral Therapy - 2006

A Practical Method to Calibrate Self-Reported Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy - 2006

A Test of Knowledge About Prostate Cancer Screening: Online Pilot Evaluation Among Southern California Physicians - 2006

An Alternative Approach to Reducing the Costs of Patient Care? A Controlled Trial of the Multi-Disciplinary Doctor-Nurse Practitioner (MDNP) Model - 2006

An Ethno-Medical Perspective on Research Participation: A Qualitative Pilot Study - 2006

Application of Group-Level Item Response Models in the Evaluation of Consumer Reports About Health Plan Quality - 2006

Changes in Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life in a Nationally Representative Sample of Adults in Treatment for HIV - 2006

Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory Analyses of Multi-Item Scales Assessing Parents' Perceptions of Their Children's Dental Care - 2006

Comparison of Data Quality for Reports and Ratings of Ambulatory Care By African American and White Medicare Managed Care Enrollees - 2006

Cultural Competency and Quality of Care: Obtaining the Patient's Perspective - 2006

Development of Supplemental Quality Improvement Items for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) - 2006

Disparities in Care for HIV Patients: Results of the HCSUS Study - 2006

Health-related Quality of Life and Patient Reports About Care Outcomes in a Multidisciplinary Hospital Intervention - 2006

Impact of Severity and Bilaterality of Visual Impairment on Health-Related Quality of Life - 2006

Linguistic Disparities in Health Care Access and Health Status Among Older Adults - 2006

Minimally Important Difference in Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis: Results from the D-penicillamine Study - 2006

Patients' Global Ratings of Their Health Care Are Not Associated with the Technical Quality of Their Care - 2006

Physician Communication About the Cost and Acquisition of Newly Prescribed Medications - 2006

Physician Communication When Prescribing New Medications - 2006

Psychometric Characteristics of a Patient Satisfaction Instrument Tailored to the Concerns of African Americans - 2006

Psychometric Performance of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire in Latinos and Non-Latinos - 2006

Repeated Measures Longitudinal Analyses of HIV Virologic Response as a Function of Percent Adherence, Dose Timing, Genotypic Sensitivity, and Other Factors - 2006

Responsiveness and Minimal Important Differences for Patient Reported Outcomes - 2006

The Effect of a Multidisciplinary Hospitalist/physician and Advanced Practice Nurse Collaboration on Hospital Costs - 2006

The Impact of Interpreters on Parents' Experiences with Ambulatory Care for Their Children - 2006

Variation in the Readability of Items Within Surveys - 2006

Variations in Provider Conceptions of Integrative Medicine - 2006

A Self-Report Measure of Clinicians' Orientation Toward Integrative Medicine - 2005

Application of Structural Equation Modeling to Health Outcomes Research - 2005

Approaches and Recommendations for Estimating Minimally Important Differences for Health-Related Quality of Life Measures - 2005

Assessment of the Equivalence of the Spanish and English Versions of the CAHPS Hospital Survey on the Quality of Inpatient Care - 2005

Comparison of Mail and Telephone in Assessing Patient Experiences in Receiving Care from Medical Group Practices - 2005

Creating a Crosswalk to Estimate AIDS Clinical Trials Group Quality of Life Scores in a Nationally Representative Sample of Persons in Care for HIV in the United States - 2005

Development and Evaluation of the CAHPS Hospital Survey - 2005

Development of the 12-Item Expectations Regarding Aging Survey - 2005

Do Medicaid and Commercial CAHPS Scores Correlate Within Plans? A New Jersey Case Study - 2005

Do People with HIV Get the Dental Care They Need? Results of the HCSUS Study - 2005

Do Proxies Reflect Patients’ Health Concerns About Urinary Incontinence and Gait Problems? - 2005

Effect of a Multidisciplinary Intervention on Communication and Collaboration Among Physicians and Nurses - 2005

Effects of Testosterone Replacement in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Women with Weight Loss - 2005

Equivalence of Mail and Telephone Responses to CAHPS Hospital Survey - 2005

Estimating Clinically Significant Differences in Quality of Life Outcomes - 2005

Evaluating the Statistical Significance of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Change in Individual Patients - 2005

Exploratory Factor Analyses of the CAHPS Hospital Pilot Survey Responses Across and Within Medical, Surgical, and Obstetric Services - 2005

Field Testing: What It Is and How We Do It - 2005

Impact of Chronic Viral Hepatitis on Health-Related Quality of Life in HIV: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample - 2005

Impact of Hepatitis C on Health Related Quality of Life: A Systematic Review and Quantitative Assessment - 2005

Imputation of SF-12 Health Scores for Respondents with Partially Missing Data - 2005

Methods Used to Streamline the CAHPS Hospital Survey - 2005

Patients' Preferences for Technical Versus Interpersonal Quality When Selecting a Primary Care Physician - 2005

Patterns of Unit and Item Nonresponse in the CAHPS Hospital Survey - 2005

Psychometric Properties of a Group-Level Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) Instrument - 2005

Psychometric Properties of the Medical Outcome Study Sleep Measure - 2005

Religiousness and Spirituality Among HIV-infected Americans - 2005

Responsiveness of the SF-36 and the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index in a Systemic Sclerosis Clinical Trial - 2005

Review of the Literature on Survey Instruments Used to Collect Data on Hospital Patients' Perceptions of Care - 2005

The Association of Health-Related Quality of Life with Survival Among Persons with HIV Infection in the United States - 2005

The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Survival of People Receiving Care for HIV Infection in the United States - 2005

A Microcomputer Assessment System [MAS] for Administering Computer-Based Surveys: Preliminary Results from Administration to Clients at an Impaired-Driver Treatment Program - 2004

Adherence to Cancer Regimens: Implications for Treating the Older Patient - 2004

Antecedents of Adherence to Medical Recommendations: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 2004

Are Physician-Derived Disease Severity Indices Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease? - 2004

Delays and Unmet Need for Health Care Among Adult Primary Care Patients in a Restructured Urban Public Health System - 2004

Differential Use of the CAHPS 0-10 Global Rating Scale By Medicaid and Commercial Populations - 2004

Half Standard Deviation Estimate of the Minimally Important Difference in HRQOL Scores - 2004

Health Plan Effects on Patient Assessments of Medicaid Managed Care Among Racial/ethnic Minorities - 2004

How Many Patients Are Needed to Provide Reliable Evaluations of Individual Clinicians? - 2004

No Evidence of an Association Between Transient HIV Viremia (Blips) and Lower Adherence to the Antiretroviral Medication Regimen - 2004

On Becoming Involved with Drugs: Modeling Adolescent Drug Use Over Time - 2004

Physician Recognition of Cognitive Impairment: Evaluating the Need for Improvement - 2004

Racial Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life Among Hemodialysis Patients - 2004

Racial Differences in the Impact of Irritable Bowel Syndrome on Health-Related Quality of Life - 2004

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Patients' Preferences for Initial Care By Specialists - 2004

Response Times for the CAGE Short-MAST, AUDIT, and JELLINEK Alcohol Scales - 2004

Stepping Through the Drug Use Sequence: Longitudinal Scalogram Analysis of Initiation and Regular Use - 2004

Summary of Cognitive Interviews for CAHPS Dental Care Project - 2004

The Applicability of the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Survey (CAHPS) to Preferred Provider Organizations in the United States: A Discussion of Industry Concerns - 2004

The Course of Depression in Adult Outpatients: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 2004

Associations of Presbyopia with Vision-Targeted Health-Related Quality of Life - 2003

Bias in Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life in a Hemodialysis Population: A Comparison of Self-Administered and Interviewer-Administered Surveys in the HEMO Study - 2003

Commentary on Using the SF-36 or MOS-HIV in Studies of Persons with HIV Disease - 2003

Correlates of Social Function: A Comparison of a Black and a White Sample of Older Persons in Los Angeles - 2003

Do Differences in Methods for Constructing SF-36 Physical and Mental Health Summary Measures Change Their Associations with Chronic Medical Conditions and Utilization? - 2003

Equivalence of Chinese and US-English Version of the SF-36 Health Survey - 2003

Knowledge of Antiretroviral Regimen Dosing and Adherence: A Longitudinal Study - 2003

Methodological Challenges Associated with Patient Responses to Follow-Up Longitudinal Surveys Regarding Quality of Care - 2003

Patient Reports and Ratings of Individual Physicians: An Evaluation of the Doctor Guide and Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study Provider-Level Surveys - 2003

Patterns of Coping Among Persons with HIV Infection: Configurations, Correlates, and Change - 2003

Psychometric Properties of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) 2.0 Adult Core Survey - 2003

Psychometric Properties of the National Eye Institute-Refractive Error Quality of Life Instrument - 2003

Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey (CAHPS) - 2003

Race/ethnicity, Language, and Patients' Assessments of Care in Medicaid Managed Care - 2003

Responsiveness of the National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life Instrument to Surgical Correction of Refractive Error - 2003

Responsiveness of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-89) in an Antiepileptic Drug Trial - 2003

The Diverse Older HIV-positive Population: A National Profile of Economic Circumstances, Social Support, and Quality of Life - 2003

The Impact of HIV on Oral Health and Subsequent Use of Dental Services - 2003

The Tripartite Model of Anxiety and Depression: Symptom Structure in Depressive and Hypertensive Patient Groups - 2003

A Prospective Study of Predictors of Adherence to Combination Antiretroviral Medication - 2002

Associations of Self-Reported Oral Health with Physical and Mental Health in a Nationally Representative Sample of HIV Persons Receiving Medical Care - 2002

Beyond Alcoholism: Identifying Older, At-Risk Drinkers in Primary Care - 2002

Comparing the Alcohol-Related Problems Survey (ARPS) to Traditional Alcohol Screening Measures in Elderly Outpatients - 2002

Development, Reliability, and Validity of the Expectations Regarding Aging (ERA-38) Survey - 2002

Do Older Adults Expect to Age Successfully? The Association Between Expectations Regarding Aging and Beliefs Regarding Healthcare Seeking Among Older Adults - 2002

Effects of CAHPS Health Plan Performance Information on Plan Choices By New Jersey Medicaid Beneficiaries - 2002

Effects of CAHPS Performance Information on Health Plan Choices By Iowa Medicaid Beneficiaries - 2002

HIV Patients' Experiences with Inpatient and Outpatient Care: Results of a National Survey - 2002

Impact of Antiretroviral Regimen Switches on Adherence - 2002

Patient Preferences Regarding Antiretroviral Therapy - 2002

Patient, Clinician, and Population Perspectives on Determining the Clinical Significance of Quality-of-Life Scores - 2002

Patients Using Chiropractors in North America: Who Are They, and Why Are They in Chiropractic Care? - 2002

Seizure Reduction and Quality of Life Improvements in People with Epilepsy - 2002

The Alcohol-Related Problems Survey: Identifying Hazardous and Harmful Drinking in Older Primary Care Patients - 2002

Use of the SF-36 and Other Health-Related Quality of Life Measures to Assess Persons with Disabilities - 2002

A Review of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measures in Stroke - 2001

Associations of Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life: Findings from a National Study of Persons with HIV Infection - 2001

Brief Screening of Psychiatric Disorders Among a National Sample of HIV-positive Adults: Concordance Between the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the CIDI Short Form (CIDI-SF) - 2001

Case-mix Adjustment of the National CAHPS Benchmarking Data 1.0: A Violation of Model Assumptions? - 2001

Comparison of the ROST and the CAGE Alcohol Screening Instruments in Young Adults - 2001

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) 1.0 Core Survey - 2001

Cross-cultural Adaptation of Survey Instruments: The CAHPS Experience - 2001

Development of the 25-Item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire - 2001

Differences in CAHPS Adult Survey Reports and Ratings By Race and Ethnicity: An Analysis of the National CAHPS Benchmarking Data 1.0 - 2001

Does Physician Gender Affect Satisfaction of Men and Women Visiting the Emergency Department? - 2001

Effects of Cost Sharing on Care Seeking and Health Status: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 2001

Expectations Regarding Aging Among Older Adults and Physicians Who Care for Older Adults - 2001

Improvement in Emotional Well-Being and Relationships of Users of Sildenafil - 2001

In Re Alcohol Use in Older Adults - 2001

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Parents' Assessments of Pediatric Care in Medicaid Managed Care - 2001

Readability of CAHPS 2.0 Child and Adult Core Surveys - 2001

The RAND-36 Measure of Health-Related Quality of Life - 2001

Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Initial Reliability and Multitrait Testing of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life Instrument for Use in Japan - 2001

Using Data to Enhance the Expert Panel Process - 2001

A Chiropractic Supplemental Item Set for the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study - 2000

A Review of Consumer Assessments of Physician Groups - 2000

Access to Medical Care Reported By Asians and Pacific Islanders in a West Coast Physician Group Association - 2000

Adherence to Combination Antiretroviral Therapy: Synthesis of the Literature and Clinical Implications - 2000

Associations Between Primary Care Physician Satisfaction and Self-Reported Aspects of Utilization Management - 2000

Comparative Review of Generic Quality-of-Life Instruments - 2000

Coping, Conflictual Social Interactions, Social Support, and Mood Among HIV-infected Persons - 2000

Development of Subscales from the Symptoms/problems and Effects of Kidney Disease Scales of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life Instrument - 2000

Development of a Health-Related Quality of Life Measure for Peripheral Neuropathy - 2000

Do Consumer Reports of Health Plan Quality Affect Health Plan Selection? - 2000

Effects of Incentive Size and Timing on Response Rates to a Follow-Up Wave of Longitudinal Mailed Survey - 2000

Electroacupuncture for Control of Myeloablative Chemotherapy-Induced Emesis: A Randomized Controlled Trial - 2000

Ethnic and Racial Differences in Long-Term Survival from Hospitalization for HIV Infection - 2000

Evaluating the Equivalence of Health Care Ratings By Whites and Hispanics - 2000

Health Status Measurement Performance and Health Status Differences By Age, Ethnicity, and Gender: Assessment in the Medical Outcomes Study - 2000

Health-related Quality of Life Among People with HIV Disease: Results from the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study - 2000

Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in the United States: Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study - 2000

Identifying a Short Functional Disability Screen for Older Persons - 2000

Impact of Psychiatric Conditions on Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons with HIV Infection - 2000

Item Response Theory and Health Outcomes Measurement in the 21st Century - 2000

Measuring Adherence to Antiretroviral Medications in Clinical Trials - 2000

Physical and Role Functioning Among Persons with HIV: Results from a Nationally Representative Survey - 2000

Quality of Life Measures in Epilepsy: How Well Can They Detect Change Over Time? - 2000

Self-study from Web-Based and Printed Guideline Materials: A Randomized, Controlled Trial Among Resident Physicians - 2000

Testing CAHPS Health Plan Performance Reports in the Florida Medicaid Program - 2000

Testosterone Replacement and Resistance Exercise in HIV-infected Men with Weight Loss and Low Testosterone Levels - 2000

The Concept of Clinically Meaningful Difference in Health-Related Quality-of-Life Research - 2000

The Impact of Irritable Bowel Syndrome on Health-Related Quality of Life - 2000

Using a Criterion Standard to Validate the Alcohol-Related Problems Survey (ARPS): A Screening Measure to Identify Harmful and Hazardous Drinking in Older Persons - 2000

A New Paradigm for Alcohol Use in Older Persons - 1999

A Randomized Trial of the Use of Patient Self-Assessment Data to Improve Community Practices - 1999

An International Comparison of the Reliability and Responsiveness of the Duke Health Profile for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients Treated with Alprostadil for Erectile Dysfunction - 1999

Are Latinos Less Satisfied with Communication By Health Care Providers? - 1999

Associations of Clinical Parameters with Health-Related Quality of Life in Hospitalized Persons with HIV Disease - 1999

Development of the Smoking Cessation Quality of Life Questionnaire - 1999

Drinking Habits Among Older Persons: Findings from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Study (1982-84) - 1999

Health Status and Satisfaction with Pharmacy Services - 1999

Psychometric Properties of the CAHPS 1.0 Survey Measures - 1999

Sensitivity, Specificity, Reliability, and Clinical Validity of Provider-Reported Symptoms: A Comparison with Self-Reported Symptoms - 1999

Special Issues Addressed in the CAHPS Survey of Medicare Managed Care Beneficiaries - 1999

Special issues in assessing care of Medicaid recipients - 1999

The Influence of Gatekeeping and Utilization Review on Patient Satisfaction - 1999

Use of Relevancy Ratings By Target Respondents to Develop Health-Related Quality of Life Measures: An Example with African-American Elderly - 1999

Adjusting for attrition in school-based samples : bias, precision, and cost trade-offs of three methods - 1998

Adjustment of Consumer Assessments of Health Plans in the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Studies (CAHPS) - 1998

Constitutional Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Symptomatic HIV Disease - 1998

Does Dissatisfaction with Access to Specialists Affect the Desire to Leave a Managed Care Plan? - 1998

Effects of Testosterone Replacement with a Nongenital, Transdermal System, Androderm, in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Men with Low Testosterone Levels - 1998

Member Ratings of Health Care Provided By 48 Physician Groups - 1998

Psychometric Properties of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire - 1998

Reliability of an Arabic Version of the RAND-36 Health Survey and Its Equivalence to the US-English Version - 1998

Teenage Alcohol Misuse: A Big Problem and a Different Solution - 1998

The HIV Cost & Services Utilization Study (HCSUS) Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life - 1998

The Prospective Effect of Access to Medical Care on Health-Related Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Patients with Symptomatic HIV Disease - 1998

The Structure of Satisfaction with Pharmacy Services - 1998

The UCLA Prostate Cancer Index: Development, Reliability, and Validity of a Health-Related Quality of Life Measure - 1998

Use of the CAHPS Medicaid Managed Care Questionnaire by the New Jersey Medicaid Program - 1998

A Randomized Trial of Office-Based Screening for Common Problems in Older Persons - 1997

A review of health-related quality-of-life measures used in end-state renal disease - 1997

Assessing Health and Quality of Life Outcomes in Dialysis: A Report on an Institute of Medicine Workshop - 1997

Comparison of a Generic to Disease-Targeted Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measures for Multiple Sclerosis - 1997

Conceptual Measurement, and Analytical Issues in Assessing Health Status in Older Populations - 1997

Derivation of Physical and Mental Health Composite Indices in the HIV Outcomes Study - 1997

Kidney Disease Quality of LIfe Short Form (KDQOL-SF™), Version 1.2: A Manual for Use and Scoring (German Questionnaire, Germany) - 1997

Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQL-SF™), Version 1.2: A Manual for Use and Scoring (French Questionnaire, France) - 1997

Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL-SF ™), Version 1.3: A Manual for Use and Scoring - 1997

Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL-SF™), Version 1.2: A Manual for Use and Scoring (Italian Questionnaire, Italy) - 1997

Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL-SF™), Version 1.2: A Manual for Use and Scoring (Spanish Questionnaire, Spain) - 1997

Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL-SF™), Version 1.2: A Manual for Use and Scoring (Japanese Questionnaire, Japan) - 1997

Long-term care residents' preferences for health states on the quality of well-being scale - 1997

Measuring Chiropractic Practitioner Satisfaction - 1997

Results of Focus Groups with Consumers and Physicians Concerning Treatment of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding - 1997

Stressful Life Events and Health-Related Quality of Life in College Students - 1997

Summary of RAND's 1996 Field Test: Results from the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study - 1997

Translation of the RAND 36-ITEM Health Survey 1.0 (aka SF-36) into Arabic - 1997

Understanding Changes in Health Status: Is the Floor Phenomenon Merely the Last Step of the Staircase? - 1997

When Does A Plan Differ Significantly from Other Plans? : Statistical and Practical Significance Criteria of Star Ratings for the New Jersey CAHPS Survey - 1997

A Microcomputer Program (sf36.exe) that Generates SAS Code for Scoring the SF-36 Health Survey - 1996

Access to Community-Based Medical Services and Number of Hospitalizations Among Patients with HIV Disease: Are They Related? - 1996

Associations Between Drug Use and Deviant Behavior in Teenagers - 1996

Bedside Charting of Pain Levels in Hospitalized Patients with Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial - 1996

Compilation of Potential Medicaid-Targeted Items for Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) - 1996

Dartmouth COOP Functional Health Assessment Charts: Brief Measures for Clinical Practice - 1996

Derivation and properties of a brief health status assessment instrument for use in HIV disease - 1996

Do response options influence self-reports of alcohol use? - 1996

Functioning and well-being outcomes of patients with depression compared with chronic general medical illnesses - 1996

Managed care and capitation in California, how do physicians at financial risk control their own utilization? - 1996

Outcomes in 248 patients who had diagnostic evaluations for epilepsy surgery - 1996

Pharmacoeconomics and Quality of Life Research Beyond the Randomized Clinical Trial - 1996

Physician Implementation of and Patient Adherence to Recommendations from Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment - 1996

Quality Assurance in Capitated Physician Groups: Where Is the Emphasis? - 1996

Recall of Recommendations and Adherence to Advice Among Patients with Chronic Medical Conditions - 1996

Teenagers and Alcohol Misuse in the United States: By Any Definition, It's a Big Problem - 1996

The Role of the Chiropractor in the Changing Health Care System - 1996

What is adolescent alcohol misuse in the United States according to the experts? - 1996

A Cost and Value Analysis of Two Interventions with Incontinent Nursing Home Residents - 1995

Agreement between self reports and proxy reports of quality of life in epilepsy patients - 1995

Comparing Outcomes and Charges for Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction in Three Community Hospitals: An Approach for Assessing Value - 1995

Comparison of Health-Related Quality of Life in Clinical Trial and Nonclinical Trial Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Cohorts - 1995

Development of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life (KDQOL) instrument - 1995

Development of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory - 1995

Directions for Future Research - 1995

Evaluating agreement between clinical assessment methods - 1995

Feasibility and Accuracy of a Postcard Diary System for Tracking Healthcare Utilization of Community-Dwelling Older Persons - 1995

Health-related Quality of Life in HIV Disease - 1995

Measuring Physical Function in Community-Dwelling Older Persons: A Comparison of Self-Administered, Interviewer-Administered, and Performance-Based Measures - 1995

Outcome Assessment for Epilepsy Surgery: The Impact of Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life - 1995

Perceptions of intoxication and impairment at arrest among adults convicted on driving under the influence of alcohol - 1995

Personal and psychosocial risk factors for physical and mental health outcomes and course of depression among depressed patients - 1995

Population-based Surveys of Access and Consumer Satisfaction with Health Care - 1995

Psychometric Evaluation and Interpretation of Health-Related Quality of Life Data - 1995

Subthreshold depression and depressive disorder : clinical characteristics of general medical and mental health specialty outpatients - 1995

The Chiropractic Satisfaction Questionnaire - 1995

The Impact of Patient Adherence on Health Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Disease in the Medical Outcomes Study - 1995

The Medical Quality Commission (TMQC) 1994-1995 Consumer Satisfaction Study - 1995

The Outpatient Satisfaction Questionnaire (OSQ-37): Executive Summary - 1995

The Relationship Between Visual Acuity and Functioning and Well-Being Among Diabetics - 1995

User's Manual for the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Core Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life - 1995

Validation of a New Measure of Diarrhea - 1995

Do Depressed Patients in Different Treatment Settings Have Different Levels of Well-Being and Functioning? - 1994

Four-Year Cross-Lagged Associations Between Physical and Mental Health in the Medical Outcomes Study - 1994

Measuring Patient-Reported Health Status in Advanced HIV Disease: HIV-PARSE Survey Instrument - 1994

Physicians' Characteristics Influence Patients' Adherence to Medical Treatment: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 1994

Prevalence of comorbid alcohol disorder and consumption in medically ill and depressed patients - 1994

Short-form Measures of Physician and Employee Judgments About Hospital Quality - 1994

The Benefits and Pitfalls of Health Services Research Funded by Proprietary Firms - 1994

The Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire Short Form (PSQ-18) - 1994

The impact of response options and location in a microcomputer interview on drinking drivers' alcohol use self-reports - 1994

The structure of patient satisfaction with outpatient medical care - 1994

Development of measures of physical activity/exercise and tests of variations in physical activity levels within chronic disease groups in the Medical Outcomes Study - 1993

Do limitations in functioning and well-being of depressed outpatients persist over time? - 1993

Personal and psychosocial risk factors for physical and mental health outcomes and course of depression among depressed patients - 1993

Quality of life of epilepsy surgery patients compared to outpatients with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and - 1993

Support for the Reliability of Directional Bias, Response Range, and Extreme Checking Response Sets - 1993

The RAND 36-item health survey 1.0 - 1993

Benefits and Obstacles of Health Status Assessment in Ambulatory Settings: The Clinician's Point of View - 1992

Construct Validity of MOS Health Measures - 1992

Method of Validating MOS Health Measures - 1992

Methods of Constructing Health Measures - 1992

Sleep Measures - 1992

Summary and Discussion of MOS Measures - 1992

The Short-Term Effect of Patient Health Status Assessment in a Health Maintenance Organization - 1992

Value of Functional Status as a Predictor of Mortality: Results of a Prospective Study - 1992

Antecedents of Drinking among Young Adolescents with Different Alcohol Use Histories - 1991

Marital Status, Social Support, and Health Transitions in Chronic Disease Patients - 1991

User's Guide for the Longitudinal Scalogram Analysis Program - 1991

Beyond Internal Consistency Reliability: Rationale and User's Guide for Multitrait Analysis Program on the Microcomputer - 1990

Hierarchical Measures of Physical Function in Ambulatory Geriatrics - 1990

How Generalizable Are Adolescents' Beliefs About Pro-Drug Pressures and Resistance Self-Efficacy? - 1990

Longitudinal Scalogram Analysis: A Methodology and Microcomputer Program for Guttman Scale Analysis of Longitudinal Data - 1990

The Functional Status of Patients: How Can It Be Measured in Physicians' Offices? - 1990

The structure of self-reported health in chronic-disease patients - 1990

Age and functional health status - 1989

Functional Status and Well-Being of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 1989

The Functioning and Well-Being of Depressed Patients: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 1989

User's Guide for the Multitrait Analysis Program (MAP) - 1988

A microcomputer program for analyzing multitrait-multimethod matrices - 1987

Problem Behavior Theory and Adolescent Alcohol Use - 1987

Multistage path models of adolescent alcohol and drug use: a reanalysis - 1986

An Integrated Value-Expectancy Theory of Alcohol and Other Drug Use - 1985

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