Quality of Medical Care Assessment Using Outcome Measures

Eight Disease-Specific Applications

Allyson Ross Davies, T. Lelah, Nancy E. Solomon, L. Jeff Harris, Robert H. Brook, Sheldon Greenfield, John E. Ware, C. H. Avery

ResearchPublished 1976

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Prefatory Material, Chapters 1 - 3

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Second in a series of three volumes, this report contains eight separate technical papers on eight conditions and procedures: asthma in children and adults; breast mass and breast cancer; cholecystectomy; diarrhea and dehydration in children; ischemic heart disease; osteoarthrosis; otitis media in children; and tonsillectomy with and without adenoidectomy. Each paper presents: (1) epidemiological data; (2) operational definitions of the disease or indications for the procedures, and the patient population; (3) identification of factors not under the control of medical care that may influence outcomes regardless of quality of care; (4) a method for controlling for these factors; (5) specific outcome standards that could be used to assess quality of care; (6) the relative importance and sensitivity of each outcome; (7) estimates of the size of the sample necessary to identify a specific number of patients with a given condition; and (8) four tables describing the proposed outcome measures and specific item pools necessary for data collection.

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Davies, Allyson Ross, T. Lelah, Nancy E. Solomon, L. Jeff Harris, Robert H. Brook, Sheldon Greenfield, John E. Ware, and C. H. Avery, Quality of Medical Care Assessment Using Outcome Measures: Eight Disease-Specific Applications, RAND Corporation, R-2021/2-HEW, 1976. As of October 8, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2021z2.html
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Davies, Allyson Ross, T. Lelah, Nancy E. Solomon, L. Jeff Harris, Robert H. Brook, Sheldon Greenfield, John E. Ware, and C. H. Avery, Quality of Medical Care Assessment Using Outcome Measures: Eight Disease-Specific Applications. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1976. https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2021z2.html. Also available in print form.
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