Surveys and Tools
Over its 35-year history, RAND Health has produced many practical surveys and tools for improving quality of care. Many are available below, organized by topic.
Aging and Health
Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE)
Vulnerable Elders Survey (VES-13)
Diversity and Health
End-of-Life Care
Health Economics
Health Insurance Experiment (HIE)
Hospital competition measures
(Data and documentation for variable-radius measures)
Health Security
Pandemic influenza preparedness
Public health preparedness in California: Tabletop exercises
HIV, STDs, and Sexual Behavior
HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS)
HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services surveys (CHIPTS website)
and CHIPTS Project DatabaseHIV Patient-Assessed Report of Status and Experience (HIV-PARSE)
HIV prevention planning tools
(Maximizing the Benefit Tool)
Informatics and Technology
Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health
Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)
Pediatric Asthma Symptom Scale
Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL Measurement Model)
Mental Health
Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)
Improving care for depression in primary care (Partners in Care)
Military Health Policy
Public Health
Pandemic influenza preparedness
Public health preparedness in California: Tabletop exercises
Quality of Care
Assessing the appropriateness of medical treatments
(RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method)Chronic illness care evaluation instruments (ICICE website)
Consumer health care assessment tools
(CAHPS® Survey and Reporting Kit 2002)Dialysis Patient Satisfaction Survey (DPSS)
Nursing Homes Outcomes Initiative
Patient Satisfaction Questionnaires (PSQ-III and PSQ-18)
Patient satisfaction survey for the Unified Medical Group Association
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)
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)
- 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
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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