Surveys and Tools
Over its 40-year history, RAND Health has produced many practical surveys and tools. Many are available below, organized by topic.
Surveys
Aging and Health
Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE)
Vulnerable Elders Survey (VES-13)
Diversity and Health
Health Economics
Hospital competition measures
(Data and documentation for variable-radius measures)
HIV, STDs, and Sexual Behavior
HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS)
HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services surveys (CHIPTS website)
and CHIPTS Project Database
HIV Patient-Assessed Report of Status and Experience (HIV-PARSE)
Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health
Pediatric Asthma Symptom Scale
Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL Measurement Model)
Mental Health
Improving care for depression in primary care (Partners in Care)
Military Health Policy
Quality of Care
Chronic illness care evaluation instruments (ICICE website)
Dialysis Patient Satisfaction Survey (DPSS)
Patient Satisfaction Questionnaires (PSQ-III and PSQ-18)
Patient satisfaction survey for the Unified Medical Group Association
Quality of Life
Epilepsy Surgery Inventory survey (ESI-55)
Kidney Disease Quality of Life Instrument (KDQOL)
(UCLA website, registration required; translations also available)
Medical Outcomes Study (MOS)
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Measures of Quality of Life (Core Survey)
Short Forms:12-Item (SF-12), 20-Item (SF-20), 36-Item (SF-36)
- Measures of Patient Adherence
- Mental Health Inventory
- Sexual Problems Measures
- Sleep Scale
- Social Support Survey
National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life Instrument (NEI RQL-42)
(UCLA website, registration required)
Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL Measurement Model)
Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-89 and QOLIE-31)
Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-25)
Research Methods
Tools
End-of-Life Care
Health Security
HIV, STDs, and Sexual Behavior
HIV prevention planning tools
(Maximizing the Benefit Tool)
Informatics and Technology
Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health
Mental Health
Public Health
Quality of Care
Assessing the appropriateness of medical treatments
(RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method)
Chronic Care Model Toolkit and Coaching Manual A toolkit and coaching manual for helping safety net practices implement the Chronic Care Model
Consumer health care assessment tools
(CAHPS® Survey and Reporting Kit 2002)
Nursing Homes Outcomes Initiative
Peer review: Measuring the quality of nursing care and physician care
Public reporting of health care quality information
Quality of care assessment tools (QA Tools)
Translating scientific evidence into tools to improve clinical care
(Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center)
Substance Abuse
Project BRIGHT Leader Manuals and Member Guidebooks
Getting to Outcomes 2004: Substance abuse prevention assessment tools
Many of the RAND surveys were designed and fielded by RAND's Survey Research Group.
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