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Responsiveness and minimal important differences for patient reported outcomesDennis A Revicki
Center for Health Outcomes Research, United BioSource Corporation, 7101 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:70. 2006..Responsiveness and MID must be demonstrated and documented for the particular study population, and these measurement characteristics are needed for PRO labeling and promotional claims...- Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Medical Outcomes Study sleep scale in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy during an international clinical trialMuriel Viala-Danten
Mapi Values, 19 rue de Villette, 69003 Lyon, France
Health Qual Life Outcomes 6:113. 2008..This study evaluates the psychometric properties of MOS-Sleep Scale in a painful diabetic peripheral neuropathic population based on a clinical trial conducted in six countries... - Correlated physical and mental health summary scores for the SF-36 and SF-12 Health Survey, V.ISepideh S Farivar
Global Health Economics, Amgen, Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 5:54. 2007..The SF-36 and SF-12 summary scores were derived using an uncorrelated (orthogonal) factor solution. We estimate SF-36 and SF-12 summary scores using a correlated (oblique) physical and mental health factor model... - Do proxies reflect patients' health concerns about urinary incontinence and gait problems?Takahiro Higashi
Department of Epidemiology and Healthcare Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606 8501, Japan
Health Qual Life Outcomes 3:75. 2005..While falls and urinary incontinence are prevalent among older patients, who sometimes rely on proxies to provide their health information, the validity of proxy reports of concern about falls and urinary incontinence remains unknown... - Patient education integrated with acupuncture for relief of cancer-related fatigue randomized controlled feasibility studyMichael F Johnston
UCLA Center for East West Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, LA, USA
BMC Complement Altern Med 11:49. 2011..Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a prominent clinical problem. There are calls for multi-modal interventions... - Evidence-based effect size estimation: an illustration using the case of acupuncture for cancer-related fatigueMichael F Johnston
Center for East West Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
BMC Complement Altern Med 9:1. 2009..We provide an illustration of deriving plausible effect size ranges for a study of acupuncture in the relief of post-chemotherapy fatigue in breast cancer patients... - Effects of mode and order of administration on generic health-related quality of life scoresRon D Hays
UCLA Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Value Health 12:1035-9. 2009..We evaluate the effects of mode and order of administration on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) scores... 
Evaluating the statistical significance of health-related quality-of-life change in individual patientsRon D Hays
UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Eval Health Prof 28:160-71. 2005..82, indicating a high level of agreement. Future research is needed to determine if one index is most appropriate for evaluating the significance of individual change...- Health-related quality of life and patient reports about care outcomes in a multidisciplinary hospital interventionRon D Hays
Los Angeles Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, 90095 1736, USA
Ann Behav Med 31:173-8. 2006..Patient perceptions of care and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are important outcomes for hospitalized patients... - Classical test theory and item response theory analyses of multi-item scales assessing parents' perceptions of their children's dental careRon D Hays
RAND Health Program, Santa Monica, California, USA
Med Care 44:S60-8. 2006.... - Application of structural equation modeling to health outcomes researchRon D Hays
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Eval Health Prof 28:295-309. 2005..The results of SEM studies can contribute to better understanding of the validity of health outcome measures and of relationships between physiologic, clinical, and health outcome variables... - Cigarette smoking and health-related quality of life in Medicare beneficiariesRon D Hays
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024 2801, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 29:57-67. 2008..Encouraging smokers to quit and providing abstinence support to persons who have recently quit may help reduce health-related impacts of cigarette use... - The impact of next and back buttons on time to complete and measurement reliability in computer-based surveysRon D Hays
UCLA Department of Medicine, 911 Broxton Avenue, Room 110, Los Angeles, CA 90024 2801, USA
Qual Life Res 19:1181-4. 2010..To assess the impact of including next and back buttons on response burden and measurement reliability of computer-based surveys... - Next steps for use of item response theory in the assessment of health outcomesRon D Hays
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA RAND Health Program, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA
Qual Life Res 16:195-9. 2007..We review the NCI/DIA conference, "Improving health outcomes assessment based on modern measurement theory and computerized adaptive testing," and suggest next steps in use of item response theory (IRT) to assess health outcomes... - Item response theory analyses of physical functioning items in the medical outcomes studyRon D Hays
UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Med Care 45:S32-8. 2007..The initial focus of PROMIS is on 5 HRQOL domains: physical function, fatigue, pain, emotional distress, and social/role participation. Analysis of related, available data can inform construction of these new banks... - Approaches and recommendations for estimating minimally important differences for health-related quality of life measuresRon D Hays
School of Public Health, Division of Health Services, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
COPD 2:63-7. 2005..In addition, we provide recommendations for estimating the MID in future research... - Valuation of scleroderma and psoriatic arthritis health states by the general publicDinesh Khanna
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 8:112. 2010..Our objective was to assess health values (utilities) from the general public for health states common to people with PsA and SSc for economic evaluations... - Imputation of SF-12 health scores for respondents with partially missing dataHonghu Liu
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Health Serv Res 40:905-21. 2005.... - Minimally important differences of the UCLA Scleroderma Clinical Trial Consortium Gastrointestinal Tract InstrumentDinesh Khanna
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive, Lobby M, Suite 2500, SPC 5753, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA
J Rheumatol 38:1920-4. 2011..To provide minimally important difference (MID) estimates for the UCLA Scleroderma Clinical Trial Consortium Gastrointestinal Tract 2.0 (UCLA SCTC GIT 2.0) in a longitudinal observational cohort... - Severity of visual field loss and health-related quality of lifeRoberta McKean-Cowdin
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 143:1013-23. 2007..To examine the association between severity of visual field loss (VFL) and self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a population-based sample... 
Gender differences in multiple underlying dimensions of health-related quality of life are associated with sociodemographic and socioeconomic statusDasha Cherepanov
Department of Health Services, University of California, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Med Care 49:1021-30. 2011....- Health state preferences are equivalent in the United States and Trinidad and TobagoRichard D Hector
Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Box 951772, 31 293C CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095 1772, USA
Qual Life Res 19:729-38. 2010..The comparison was to determine whether the QWB scores from these different preference weights would lead to similar conclusions... - Patterns of unit and item nonresponse in the CAHPS Hospital SurveyMarc N Elliott
Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA
Health Serv Res 40:2096-119. 2005.... - The effect of socioeconomic status on the survival of people receiving care for HIV infection in the United StatesWilliam E Cunningham
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Center for Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 16:655-76. 2005..Effective interventions are needed to improve outcomes for low SES groups with HIV infection... - Psychometric characteristics of a patient satisfaction instrument tailored to the concerns of African AmericansMarie N Fongwa
School of Nursing, UCLA, California 90095 6917, USA
Ethn Dis 16:948-55. 2006..The survey needs to be evaluated in other samples to determine if it adequately reflects cultural issues from other ethnic minorities... - Evaluating the SF-36 Health Survey (Version 2) in Older Vietnamese AmericansQuyen Ngo-Metzger
Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, 111 Academy, Suite 220, Irvine, CA, USA
J Aging Health 20:420-36. 2008..The SF-36((R)) Health Survey (Version 2; SF-36) was evaluated among older Vietnamese Americans to determine whether underlying dimensions of physical and mental health were similar to those of other groups in the United States... - Repeated measures longitudinal analyses of HIV virologic response as a function of percent adherence, dose timing, genotypic sensitivity, and other factorsHonghu Liu
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles UCLA, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 41:315-22. 2006..The contribution of dose timing and other factors to achieving virologic suppression has received less scrutiny... - Association of gastrointestinal involvement and depressive symptoms in patients with systemic sclerosisVijay Bodukam
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Rheumatology (Oxford) 50:330-4. 2011..0 instrument; and (ii) to explore which GI-specific symptom scales are associated with depressed mood in patients with SSc... - Racial/Ethnic disparities in medicare part d experiencesAmelia M Haviland
H John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL Department of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Med Care 50:S40-7. 2012..To examine racial/ethnic differences in Medicare beneficiary experiences with Medicare Part D prescription drug (PD) coverage... - Physician communication about the cost and acquisition of newly prescribed medicationsDerjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10880 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 1800, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Am J Manag Care 12:657-64. 2006..To describe the frequency and content of physician discussions about the cost and acquisition of new medications... - Readability estimates for commonly used health-related quality of life surveysSylvia H Paz
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Qual Life Res 18:889-900. 2009..To estimate readability of seven commonly used health-related quality of life instruments: SF-36, HUI, EQ-5D, QWB-SA, HALex, Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ), and the NEI-VFQ-25... - Patients' preferences for technical versus interpersonal quality when selecting a primary care physicianConstance H Fung
Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare Systems, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Health Serv Res 40:957-77. 2005..Individual physician report cards should contain ample information in both domains to be most useful to patients... - Reports and ratings of care: black and white Medicare enrolleesMarie N Fongwa
School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, 700 Tiverton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 19:1136-47. 2008..This study compared African American/Black and White Medicare enrollees' perceptions of care... - A pilot study of health beliefs and attitudes concerning measures of antiretroviral adherence among prisoners receiving directly observed antiretroviral therapyBecky L White
Department of Medicine, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 20:408-17. 2006..72; p < 0.001). This study provides preliminary support for the psychometric properties of the survey in this correctional setting... - Can hospital cultural competency reduce disparities in patient experiences with care?Robert Weech-Maldonado
Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA Schiller Research Consulting, Gainesville, FL Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Med Care 50:S48-55. 2012..Cultural competency has been espoused as an organizational strategy to reduce health disparities in care... - Comparison of data quality for reports and ratings of ambulatory care by African American and White Medicare managed care enrolleesMarie N Fongwa
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
J Aging Health 18:707-21. 2006..Future efforts are needed to enhance the quality of data collected from older African Americans... - The impact of interpreters on parents' experiences with ambulatory care for their childrenLeo S Morales
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Med Care Res Rev 63:110-28. 2006..Increasing use of interpreters could reduce racial/ethnic disparities and improve health plan performance... - Patients' global ratings of their health care are not associated with the technical quality of their careJohn T Chang
the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California; RAND Health, Santa Monica, California; and RAND Health, Arlington, Virginia
Ann Intern Med 144:665-72. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Vulnerable elders' global ratings of care should not be used as a marker of technical quality of care. Assessments of quality of care should include both patient evaluations and independent assessments of technical quality... - A practical method to calibrate self-reported adherence to antiretroviral therapyHonghu Liu
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 43:S104-12. 2006..We investigated methods to calibrate patients' self-reported adherence to match objectively measured adherence more closely for the purpose of developing a practical and more accurate self-reported adherence measure... - Repeated measures analyses of dose timing of antiretroviral medication and its relationship to HIV virologic outcomesHonghu Liu
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Stat Med 26:991-1007. 2007..Investigations of adherence to antiretrovirals would benefit from measuring not only per cent adherence but dose timing adherence... - Depression and the health care experiences of Medicare beneficiariesSteven C Martino
RAND, 4570 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 2665, USA
Health Serv Res 46:1883-904. 2011..To compare health care experiences of Medicare beneficiaries with and without symptoms of depression and investigate the role of patient confidence in shaping these experiences... - Longitudinal changes in visual acuity and health-related quality of life: the Los Angeles Latino Eye studyRoberta McKean-Cowdin
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ophthalmology 117:1900-7, 1907.e1. 2010..To examine the association between longitudinal changes in visual acuity (VA) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a population-based sample of adult Latinos... - Equivalence of mail and telephone responses to the CAHPS Hospital SurveyHan de Vries
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA
Health Serv Res 40:2120-39. 2005..This suggests that mode of administration should be standardized or carefully adjusted for. Alternatively, further item development may minimize the sensitivity of items to mode of data collection... - Racial differences in the impact of irritable bowel syndrome on health-related quality of lifeIan M Gralnek
VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Clin Gastroenterol 38:782-9. 2004..To compare the impact of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) on health related quality of life (HRQOI) for non-white and white IBS patients... - Associations of eye diseases and symptoms with self-reported physical and mental healthPaul P Lee
RAND, Health Sciences Program, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 148:804-808.e1. 2009..To study the associations of eye diseases and visual symptoms with the most widely used health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) generic profile measure... - Psychometric properties of the National Eye Institute-Refractive Error Quality of Life instrumentRon D Hays
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California RAND, Santa Monica, California 90095, USA
Ophthalmology 110:2292-301. 2003.... - Psychometric properties of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Clinician and Group Adult Visit SurveyNaomi Dyer
Westat, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Med Care 50:S28-34. 2012..The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Clinician and Group Adult Visit Survey enables patients to report their experiences with outpatient medical offices... - Development and evaluation of CAHPS survey items assessing how well healthcare providers address health literacyBeverly A Weidmer
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Med Care 50:S3-11. 2012..The complexity of health information often exceeds patients' skills to understand and use it... - Representativeness of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Internet panelHonghu Liu
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 63:1169-78. 2010..To evaluate the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS), which collected data from an Internet polling panel, and to compare PROMIS with national norms... - Do Medicaid and commercial CAHPS scores correlate within plans?: a New Jersey case studyMarc N Elliott
RAND, Santa Monica, California 90407, USA
Med Care 43:1027-33. 2005..There is interest in reducing survey administration costs and sample size requirements by sampling these 2 groups together for health plan comparisons. Plan managers may also be interested in understanding variability within plans... - A comprehensive evaluation of survey questions for adherence to antiretroviral medications and exploratory analyses for identifying optimal sets of survey questionsHonghu Liu
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 20:760-72. 2006..Because these variables are readily obtainable in clinical settings, these selected questions may provide a clinically useful means of screening patients for antiretroviral medication nonadherence... - Impact of severity and bilaterality of visual impairment on health-related quality of lifeRohit Varma
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ophthalmology 113:1846-53. 2006..To assess the impact of unilateral and bilateral visual impairment (VI) and its severity on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in Latinos 40 years and older... - Psychometric performance of the National Eye Institute visual function questionnaire in Latinos and non-LatinosRichard S Baker
Department of Ophthalmology, Research Centers in Minority Institutions, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California 90059, USA
Ophthalmology 113:1363-71. 2006.... - Prescribing new medications: a taxonomy of physician-patient communicationDerjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024 4142, USA
Commun Med 5:195-208. 2008..The coding system also can be used to measure the quality of new medication discussions for linkage to outcomes and can inform interventions to improve communication when prescribing new drugs... - Responsiveness of the National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life instrument to surgical correction of refractive errorPeter J McDonnell
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Ophthalmology 110:2302-9. 2003..This instrument may prove useful for evaluating the beneficial and adverse impacts of surgical and nonsurgical methods of refractive error correction... - Uncertainty and health-related quality of life 1 year after coronary angiographyJo Ann Eastwood
UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1702, USA
Am J Crit Care 17:232-42; quiz 243. 2008..Little is known about illness-related uncertainty and decreased health-related quality of life in patients undergoing initial coronary angiography or about the long-term effects of uncertainty... - Developing a Spanish-language consumer report for CAHPS health plan surveysKathryn Pitkin Derose
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:681-8. 2007..A Spanish-language consumer report on health plan quality was developed for the Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) project... - Racial and ethnic differences in patients' preferences for initial care by specialistsMitchell D Wong
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Am J Med 116:613-20. 2004..To examine racial and ethnic differences in patients' preferences for initial care by specialists, and to determine whether trust in the physician and health beliefs account for these differences... - Differences in CAHPS reports and ratings of health care provided to adults and childrenAlex Y Chen
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Med Care 50:S35-9. 2012..Consumer assessment of health care is an important metric for evaluating quality of care. These assessments can help purchasers, health plans, and providers deliver care that fits patients' needs... - Development of items to assess patients' health literacy experiences at hospitals for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospital SurveyBeverly A Weidmer
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Med Care 50:S12-21. 2012..The complexity of health information frequently exceeds patients' skills to understand and use it. Improvement in hospital communication has the potential to improve the quality of care... - Health-related quality of life in adults reporting arthritis: analysis from the National Health Measurement StudyDinesh Khanna
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 1000 Veteran Avenue, Rm 32 59 Rehabilitation Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Qual Life Res 20:1131-40. 2011..Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States. We assess the generic health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) among a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults with and without self-reported arthritis... - Methodological challenges associated with patient responses to follow-up longitudinal surveys regarding quality of careKatherine L Kahn
UCLA School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736, USA
Health Serv Res 38:1579-98. 2003.... - Are physician-derived disease severity indices associated with health-related quality of life in patients with end-stage liver disease?Fasiha Kanwal
VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 99:1726-32. 2004..However, there are no data evaluating the associations between MELD scores and patient reports of health-related quality of life (HRQOL)... - Adjusting for subgroup differences in extreme response tendency in ratings of health care: impact on disparity estimatesMarc N Elliott
RAND, 1776 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Health Serv Res 44:542-61. 2009..Adjust for subgroup differences in extreme response tendency (ERT) in ratings of health care, which otherwise obscure disparities in patient experience... - Responsiveness and construct validity of the health utilities index in patients with dementiaHarish Kavirajan
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA
Med Care 47:651-61. 2009..Assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is important for cost-effectiveness analyses, but the validity of generic HRQOL instruments has not been adequately evaluated in persons with dementia... - How do proxy responses and proxy-assisted responses differ from what Medicare beneficiaries might have reported about their health care?Marc N Elliott
RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Health Serv Res 43:833-48. 2008..Assess proxy respondent effects on health care evaluations by Medicare beneficiaries... - An ethno-medical perspective on research participation: a qualitative pilot studyJosé L Calderón
Center for Cross Cultural Epidemiologic Studies, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California, USA
MedGenMed 8:23. 2006..There is a paucity of information about culturally appropriate methods for recruiting and retaining racial/ethnic minorities in research... - Five preference-based indexes in cataract and heart failure patients were not equally responsive to changeRobert M Kaplan
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 64:497-506. 2011..To compare the responsiveness to clinical change of five widely used preference-based health-related quality-of-life indexes in two longitudinal cohorts... - Linguistic disparities in health care access and health status among older adultsNinez A Ponce
UCLA Department of Health Services, Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:786-91. 2006..English proficiency may be important in explaining disparities in health and health care access among older adults... - Do health care ratings differ by race or ethnicity?Mark G Haviland
Department of Psychiatry, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:134-45. 2003..This study of differences in health care experiences by race and ethnicity was the first to use nationally representative data... - US general population norms for telephone administration of the SF-36v2Gregory A Maglinte
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 65:497-502. 2012..This article reports SF-36v2 telephone-administered norms collected in 2005-2006 for adults aged 35-89 years... - Development and preliminary evaluation of a quality of life measure targeted at dementia caregiversBarbara G Vickrey
University of California, Los Angeles Department of Neurology, Los Angeles, California 90095 1769, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 7:56. 2009..The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a caregiver-targeted quality-of-life measure (CGQOL) for informal caregivers of persons with dementia that can be used with caregivers from a variety of ethnicities... - Case management and health-related quality of life outcomes in a national sample of persons with HIV/AIDSWilliam E Cunningham
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 100:840-7. 2008..To examine whether having a case manager is associated with better physical and mental health scores... - Access to care for youth with special health care needs in the transition to adulthoodDebra S Lotstein
Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
J Adolesc Health 43:23-9. 2008..To describe access to care and identify factors associated with access for low-income young adults who aged out of a public program for children with special health care needs (CSHCN)... - Development of the 12-item Expectations Regarding Aging SurveyCatherine A Sarkisian
Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
Gerontologist 45:240-8. 2005..This study describes the development of a short version of the Expectations Regarding Aging Survey (ERA-38), a 38-item survey measuring expectations regarding aging... - Comparison of mail and telephone in assessing patient experiences in receiving care from medical group practicesKimberly A Hepner
RAND Corporation, Health Sciences Program, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA
Eval Health Prof 28:377-89. 2005..This study indicates that mail and telephone modes of data collection for the G-CAHPS survey produce similar results... - A Self-Report Measure of Clinicians' Orientation toward Integrative MedicineAn-Fu Hsiao
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of GIM/HSR, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1553-69. 2005..The IM-30 survey, which we estimate as requiring 5 minutes to complete, can be administered to both conventional and CAM clinicians... - A randomized study of scleroderma health state values: a picture is worth a thousand words, and quite a few utiles. [corrected]Dinesh Khanna
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Med Decis Making 29:7-14. 2009..We assess utilities from the general public for health states common in scleroderma (SSc) by describing the health states in writing alone v. with photographs of patients with SSc... - The role of the bifactor model in resolving dimensionality issues in health outcomes measuresSteven P Reise
Department of Psychology, University of California, Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Qual Life Res 16:19-31. 2007..We propose the application of a bifactor model for exploring the dimensional structure of an item response matrix, and for handling multidimensionality... - Evaluating differential item functioning of the PRIME-MD mood module among impoverished black and white women in primary careKimberly A Hepner
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Womens Health Issues 18:53-61. 2008..The purpose of this study was to determine whether items in the mood module of the PRIME-MD perform similarly in 2 high-risk populations: impoverished black and white women... - Effect of a multidisciplinary intervention on communication and collaboration among physicians and nursesSondra Vazirani
School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Am J Crit Care 14:71-7. 2005..001). CONCLUSIONS: The multidisciplinary intervention resulted in better communication and collaboration among the participants... - Delays and unmet need for health care among adult primary care patients in a restructured urban public health systemAllison L Diamant
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Am J Public Health 94:783-9. 2004..We estimated the prevalence and determinants of delayed and unmet needs for medical care among patients in a restructured public health system... - HIV patients' experiences with inpatient and outpatient care: results of a national surveyIra B Wilson
Division of Clinical Care Research, Department of Medicine, Tufts New England Medical Center 345, 750 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Med Care 40:1149-60. 2002..Little is known about HIV patients' care experiences... - Prospects and challenges in using patient-reported outcomes in clinical practiceConstance H Fung
Zynx Health, Incorporated, 10880 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Qual Life Res 17:1297-302. 2008..These measures are a core aspect of health care, but there is much to be learned about how to use them to improve clinical practice... - Differences in child versus parent reports of the child's health-related quality of life in children with epilepsy and healthy siblingsChristine Bower Baca
Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1736, USA
Value Health 13:778-86. 2010.... - Health-related quality of life: The impact of diagnostic angiographyJo Ann Eastwood
School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, California 90095 1702, USA
Heart Lung 40:147-55. 2011..Little is known regarding the effects of index angiograms on health-related quality of life related to angiographic outcome, that is, positive or negative for coronary heart disease (CHD)... - The minimally important difference for the fatigue visual analog scale in patients with rheumatoid arthritis followed in an academic clinical practiceDinesh Khanna
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Rheumatol 35:2339-43. 2008..To estimate the minimally important difference (MID) for a fatigue visual analog scale (VAS) using patient-reported anchors (fatigue, pain, and overall health)... - Adherence treatment factors in hypertensive African American womenMarie N Fongwa
University of California Los Angeles School of Nursing, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6917, USA
Vasc Health Risk Manag 4:157-66. 2008..Factors associated with adherence to treatment in African American women are unknown. The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with adherence to hypertension treatment in African American women... - Do differences in methods for constructing SF-36 physical and mental health summary measures change their associations with chronic medical conditions and utilization?William E Cunningham
Department of Health Services, Center for Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health, 10833 LeConte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Qual Life Res 12:1029-35. 2003..We determined whether the associations of the physical and mental health summary scores with chronic medical conditions and utilization would differ depending on the scoring algorithm used... - Use of the SF-36 and other health-related quality of life measures to assess persons with disabilitiesRon D Hays
UCLA Department of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research and Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 83:S4-9. 2002..We conclude that users of "standard" HRQOL measures need to be aware of their limitations for assessing persons with disabilities... - A test of knowledge about prostate cancer screening. Online pilot evaluation among Southern California PhysiciansDouglas S Bell
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:310-4. 2006..Although the benefits of prostate cancer screening are uncertain and guidelines recommend that physicians share the screening decision with their patients, most U.S. men over age 50 are routinely screened, often without counseling... - The tripartite model of anxiety and depression: symptom structure in depressive and hypertensive patient groupsGrant N Marshall
Health Program, RAND, Santa Monica, California 90407 2138, USA
J Pers Assess 80:139-53. 2003..81 to -.86). Findings raise issues concerning the utility of the tripartite model as a heuristic framework for enhancing understanding of individual differences in normal mood as well as mood disorders... - Physician communication when prescribing new medicationsDerjung M Tarn
Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 10880 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1855-62. 2006..This article describes and assesses the quality of physician communication with patients about newly prescribed medications... - Physician recognition of cognitive impairment: evaluating the need for improvementJoshua Chodosh
Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1051-9. 2004..To assess physician recognition of dementia and cognitive impairment, compare recognition with documentation, and identify physician and patient factors associated with recognition... - Beyond alcoholism: identifying older, at-risk drinkers in primary careAlison A Moore
Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 90095 1687, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:316-24. 2002.... - No evidence of an association between transient HIV viremia ("Blips") and lower adherence to the antiretroviral medication regimenLoren G Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, and Harbor UCLA Research and Education Institute, and UCLA AIDS Institute Center for AIDS Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Infect Dis 189:1487-96. 2004..We investigated this relationship in a prospective observational cohort of 128 patients initiating a new regimen... - Do older adults expect to age successfully? The association between expectations regarding aging and beliefs regarding healthcare seeking among older adultsCatherine A Sarkisian
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1837-43. 2002.... - Prevalence and correlates of sleep disturbance in systemic sclerosis--results from the UCLA scleroderma quality of life studyTracy Frech
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Rheumatology (Oxford) 50:1280-7. 2011..Rheumatologic disorders are associated with sleep disturbances. This study examines sleep disturbance correlates in patients with SSc... - How well do clinicians estimate patients' adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy?Loren G Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance Calif, 90509 USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:1-11. 2002..However, little is known about the accuracy of these assessments. We sought to describe the accuracy of clinicians' estimates of patients' adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy... - Knowledge of antiretroviral regimen dosing and adherence: a longitudinal studyLoren G Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Medical Center, Torrance 90502, USA
Clin Infect Dis 36:514-8. 2003..03). Because knowledge deficits are common after antiretroviral regimen initiation, clinicians should assess patients' understanding of medication dosing soon after regimen initiation or change... - Reliability and validity of the University of California, Los Angeles Scleroderma Clinical Trial Consortium Gastrointestinal Tract InstrumentDinesh Khanna
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Arthritis Rheum 61:1257-63. 2009..To refine the previously developed scleroderma (systemic sclerosis [SSc]) gastrointestinal tract (GIT) instrument (SSC-GIT 1.0)...