Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research

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Robert L. Kane
Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2004 - Medical - 265 pages
Eleven American academics, physicians, and health services researchers contribute ten chapters examining the important issues that surround outcomes research, in a text for health services researchers and clinicians who utilize patient-centered outcomes information in the context of care. The concept for this volume grew out of a graduate seminar o
 

Contents

What Is Risk Adjustment?
7
How Is This Book Organized?
14
Measures?
19
Chapter 3ConditionSpecific Measures
53
Chapter 4Satisfaction
67
How Do Outcomes Researchers Measure the Effect
109
What Are the Pitfalls?
119
PART IIIRISK ADJUSTMENT
127
Chapter 8Demographic and Psychosocial Factors
175
What Are Psychological and Social Variables and
189
PART IVTECHNICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES
211
How Can Measures Be Conceptualized?
217
How Are Items in a Measure
223
How Can a Measures Sensitivity to Change Be Assessed?
231
What about Measurement Error?
237
What Are the Basic Analytic Issues?
249

How Do Outcomes Researchers Choose a Severity
140
Chapter 7Comorbidity
153
What Are Some Examples of Specific Comorbidity
166
Index
257
About the Author 265
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