Over its 40-year history, RAND Health has produced many practical surveys.
Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE)
Vulnerable Elders Survey (VES-13)
Hospital Competition Measures
(Data and documentation for variable-radius measures)
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)
Pediatric Asthma Symptom Scale
Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL Measurement Model)
Improving Care for Depression in Primary Care (Partners in 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
Epilepsy Surgery Inventory Survey (ESI-55)
Kidney Disease Quality of Life Instrument (KDQOL)
Medical Outcomes Study (MOS)
Short Forms:12-Item (SF-12), 20-Item (SF-20), 36-Item (SF-36)
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)
RAND Negative Impact of Asthma on Quality of Life Item Bank and Short Forms (RAND-IAQL-12 and RAND-IAQL-4)
Visual Function Questionnaire (VFQ-25)
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