Risk Adjustment for Measuring Healthcare Outcomes

Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life

Clinicians and policymakers are recognizing the importance of measuring health-related quality of life (HRQL) to inform patient management and policy decisions. Self- or intervi...

Better Information for Better Health Care: The Evidence-based Practice Center Program and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

To provide decision makers with the best available evidence, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality established a network of Evidence-based Practice Centers across North...

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations

Racial bias in health algorithms The U.S. health care system uses commercial algorithms to guide health decisions. Obermeyer et al. find evidence of racial bias in one widely us...

A methodological framework for assessing health indices

Causal Variables, Indicator Variables and Measurement Scales: An Example from Quality of Life

Summary There is extensive literature on the development and validation of multi-item measurement scales. Much of this is based on principles derived from psychometric theory an...