Ron D. Hays

Affiliated Adjunct Researcher
Santa Monica Office

Education

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

Overview

Ron Hays is an affiliated adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation. His research focuses on patient-reported measures. Hays has published 651 peer-reviewed articles and 39 book chapters.  He is a 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. Hays received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Riverside.

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Recent Projects

  • Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)

Selected Publications

P. Fayers & R. Hays (eds.), Assessing Quality of Life in Clinical Trials: Methods and Practice, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005

Hays, R. D., Chawla, N., Kent, E. E., & Arora, N. K., "Measurement Equivalence of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Medicare Survey Items between Non-Hispanic Whites and Asians.," Quality of Life Research, 26, 2017

Hays, R.D., Spritzer, L.L., Thompson, w.W., and Cella, D., "U.S. general population estimate for," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015

Hays, R.D., Martina, S., Brown, J., Cui, M., Cleary, P., Gaillot, S., and Elliott, M., "Evaluation of a care coordination measure for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System (CAHPS(R)) Medicare Survey," Medical Care Research and Review, 71, 2014

Hays, R.D., Liu, H., and Kapteyn, A., "Use of internet panels to conduct surveys," Behavior Research Methods, 47(3), 2015

Palimaru, A., and Hays, R. D., "Associations of health-related quality of life with overall quality of life in the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) Project," Applied Research in Quality of Life., 2017

Hays, R. D., Spritzer, K. L., Schalet, B., & Cella, D., "PROMIS®-29 v2.0 Physical and Mental Health Summary Scores. ," Quality of Life Research, 2018

Hays, R. D., Spritzer, K. L., & Reise, S. P., "Using item response theory to identify responders to treatment: Examples with the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) physical functioning and emotional distress scales. ," Psychometrika, 2021 (forthcoming)

Honors & Awards

  • President's Award (1993), RAND
  • Merit Bonus Award (2007), RAND
  • President’s Award (2009), International Society for Quality of Life Research

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