A practice-based trial of blood pressure control in African Americans (TLC-Clinic): study protocol for a randomized controlled trialAntoinette Schoenthaler
Center for Healthful Behavior Change, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Trials 12:265. 2011
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- Measurement in a multi-ethnic society. Overview to the special issue
Jeanne A Teresi
Columbia University Stroud Center and Research Division, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, 5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10471, USA
Med Care 44:S3-4. 2006
- Overview of quantitative measurement methods. Equivalence, invariance, and differential item functioning in health applications
Jeanne A Teresi
Columbia University Stroud Center and Faculty of Medicine, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Research Division, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, Riverdale, New York, USA
Med Care 44:S39-49. 2006
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- The development and psychometric analyses of ADEPT: an instrument for assessing the interactions between doctors and their elderly patients
Jeanne A Teresi
Research Division of the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, Riverdale, New York 10471, USA
Ann Behav Med 30:225-42. 2005
..The lack of instruments and methodologies designed specifically for assessing doctor-elderly patient interactions has constricted research on effective communication in the medical care of older adults...
- Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE): scaling the MMSE using item response theory (IRT)
Jeanne A Teresi
Columbia University Stroud Center, Faculty of Medicine, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 60:256-9. 2007
- Differential item functioning and health assessment
Jeanne A Teresi
Research Division, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, 5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10471, USA
Qual Life Res 16:33-42. 2007
..Basic definitions and criteria for DIF detection are provided, as are steps in performing the analyses. Recommendations are presented and future directions discussed...
- Evaluating measurement equivalence using the item response theory log-likelihood ratio (IRTLR) method to assess differential item functioning (DIF): applications (with illustrations) to measures of physical functioning ability and general distress
Jeanne A Teresi
Faculty of Medicine, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Stroud Center, New York, NY, USA
Qual Life Res 16:43-68. 2007
..Finally, impact was assessed using expected scale scores, expressed as group differences in the total test (measure) response functions...
- Modern psychometric methods for detection of differential item functioning: application to cognitive assessment measures
J A Teresi
Columbia University, Stroud Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Stat Med 19:1651-83. 2000
..It is recommended that these methods receive wider attention in the medical statistical literature...
- Use of latent class analyses for the estimation of prevalence of cognitive impairment, and signs of stroke and Parkinson's disease among African-American elderly of central Harlem: results of the Harlem Aging Project
J A Teresi
Columbia University Center for Geriatrics and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, N Y 10032, USA
Neuroepidemiology 18:309-21. 1999
..These results indicate that a relatively large proportion of elderly community residents of central Harlem evidenced or reported health problems, any or all of which may constitute a public health challenge...
- Different approaches to differential item functioning in health applications. Advantages, disadvantages and some neglected topics
Jeanne A Teresi
Columbia University Stroud Center and Faculty of Medicine and New York State Psychiatric Institute and Research Division, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, Riverdale, New York, USA
Med Care 44:S152-70. 2006
..Several factors influence DIF detection; these include (1) model fit, (2) model assumptions, (3) disability distributions, (4) purification, (5) cutoff values for magnitude measures, and (6) sample and scale size...
- Modelling the decline pattern in functional measures from a prevalent cohort study
X Liu
Division of Biostatistics, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, USA
Stat Med 19:1593-606. 2000
..The analyses suggest that, controlling for several covariates, SCU residents experienced more rapid cognitive decline than did non-SCU residents. The relative advantages and disadvantages of the two models are discussed...
- Reading ability, education, and cognitive status assessment among older adults in Harlem, New York City
S M Albert
Gertrude H Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Public Health 89:95-7. 1999
..This study examined reported level of education and current reading ability as predictors of cognitive status among older African Americans in central Harlem, New York City...
- Differential item functioning (DIF) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Overview, sample, and issues of translation
Mildred Ramirez
Research Division, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, 5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale, New York 10471, USA
Med Care 44:S95-S106. 2006
..The articles in this section illustrate the use of different methods to examine DIF in relation to English and Spanish language administration of the MMSE...
- Prevalence estimates and health-related correlates of cognitive impairment from a probability sample of community-residing Latino elders
Mildred Ramirez
Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, Research Division, 5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale, New York 10463, USA
J Aging Health 19:559-74. 2007
..A profile of those with cognitive impairment is provided. Predictors of cognitive impairment and the association between depressive symptomatology and cognitive impairment are examined...
- Improved diabetes control in the elderly delays global cognitive decline
J A Luchsinger
Department of Medicine, Columbia University, Division of General Medicine, PH9East 105, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 15:445-9. 2011
..To examine whether improved diabetes control is related to better cognitive outcomes...
- Medicare payments, healthcare service use, and telemedicine implementation costs in a randomized trial comparing telemedicine case management with usual care in medically underserved participants with diabetes mellitus (IDEATel)
Walter Palmas
Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 17:196-202. 2010
..Lower implementation costs will need to be achieved using lower cost technology in order for telemedicine case management to be more widely used...
- A randomized trial comparing telemedicine case management with usual care in older, ethnically diverse, medically underserved patients with diabetes mellitus: 5 year results of the IDEATel study
Steven Shea
Division of General Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:446-56. 2009
..Mortality was not different between the groups, although power was limited. Trial Registration http://clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00271739...
- Resident-to-resident aggression in long-term care facilities: insights from focus groups of nursing home residents and staff
Tony Rosen
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1398-408. 2008
..To more fully characterize the spectrum of resident-to-resident aggression (RRA)...
- Use of three computer training methods in elderly underserved rural patients enrolled in a diabetes telemedicine program
Kate S Robinson
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Comput Inform Nurs 28:172-7. 2010
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- Influence of cognitive impairment, illness, gender, and African-American status on psychiatric ratings and staff recognition of depression
Jeanne A Teresi
Research Division, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, 5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10471, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 10:506-14. 2002
..Equally important is further investigation of the potential biases associated with diagnosis and recognition of depression among African Americans...
- Psychometric evaluation and calibration of health-related quality of life item banks: plans for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)
Bryce B Reeve
National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Med Care 45:S22-31. 2007
..The construction and evaluation of item banks to measure unidimensional constructs of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a fundamental objective of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) project...
- IRT health outcomes data analysis project: an overview and summary
Karon F Cook
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Qual Life Res 16:121-32. 2007
..quot; A component of the conference was presentation of a psychometric and content analysis of a secondary dataset...
- A comparison of three sets of criteria for determining the presence of differential item functioning using ordinal logistic regression
Paul K Crane
Department of Internal Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Box 359780, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Qual Life Res 16:69-84. 2007
..Several techniques have been developed to detect differential item functioning (DIF), including ordinal logistic regression (OLR). This study compared different criteria for determining whether items have DIF using OLR...
- Psychosocial outcomes of telemedicine case management for elderly patients with diabetes: the randomized IDEATel trial
Paula M Trief
Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams St, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Diabetes Care 30:1266-8. 2007
- An evaluation of a monitoring system intervention: falls, injuries, and affect in nursing homes
Douglas Holmes
Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale and Columbia University Faculty of Medicine, New York 10463, USA
Clin Nurs Res 16:317-35. 2007
..Additional time spent in staff care was significantly related to decreased affective disorder. The findings related to Vigil are generally mixed. The question remains as to whether the improvement in affect was due to Vigil or vigilance...
- Primary care screen for early dementia
Ellen Grober
Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York 10467, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:206-13. 2008
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- An essay on measurement and factorial invariance
William Meredith
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Med Care 44:S69-77. 2006
..Latent variable models such as factor analyses are central to establishing valid assessment of such outcomes...
- Identification of differential item functioning using item response theory and the likelihood-based model comparison approach. Application to the Mini-Mental State Examination
Maria Orlando Orlando Edelen
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California 90407, USA
Med Care 44:S134-42. 2006
..A number of methods exist for this purpose...
- Item and scale differential functioning of the Mini-Mental State Exam assessed using the Differential Item and Test Functioning (DFIT) Framework
Leo S Morales
Department of Health Services and Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Med Care 44:S143-51. 2006
..To illustrate the application of the Differential Item and Test Functioning (DFIT) method using English and Spanish versions of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)...
- The daily spiritual experience scale: development, theoretical description, reliability, exploratory factor analysis, and preliminary construct validity using health-related data
Lynn G Underwood
Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, USA
Ann Behav Med 24:22-33. 2002
..90s. Preliminary evidence showed that daily spiritual experience is related to decreased total alcohol intake, improved quality of life, and positive psychosocial status...
- The Cornell Service Index as a measure of health service use
Jo Anne Sirey
Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, New York 10605, USA
Psychiatr Serv 56:1564-9. 2005
..Descriptive data are provided to illustrate the application of the CSI in a community sample of adults who were newly admitted to outpatient mental health clinics. These data provide information about the pathways to care...
- Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): Process, format, and clinimetric testing plan
Christopher G Goetz
Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Mov Disord 22:41-7. 2007
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