National Center for Health Statistics

By Anderson, Jack Robert

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Title:	National Center for Health Statistics
Author:	Anderson, Jack Robert
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Medical research, Medical reports
Collections:	Medical Library Collection
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Publisher:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Citation APA MLA Chicago R. Anderso, B. J. (n.d.). National Center for Health Statistics. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
These are the proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Health Survey Research Methods, held in Breckenridge, Colorado, June 24–26, 1995. As in the past, this conference moved ahead on the continuum of methodological improvements, adding to what is known and addressing new areas that had been featured briefly at previous conferences. The long-range objectives of this conference, as of its predecessors, were to improve the quality of health survey data and enhance their value and use by policy makers responsible for shaping health practice, policy, and programs. The immediate aims of this, the Sixth Conference on Health Survey Research Methods, followed those of predecessor conferences and were to...

Table of Contents
Contents FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii LIST OF ACRONYMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix SESSION 1: MEASURING MEDICAL CARE AND HEALTH STATUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disability Parsimony Lois M. Verbrugge, Susan Merrill, and Xian Liu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Evaluating Alternative Ways to Measure Change in Functioning: Subjective Versus Objective Indicators in the Longitudinal Study of Aging Mary Beth Ofstedal, Harold Lentzner, and Julie Dawson Weeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Domains of Primary Care and Health Outcomes Susan A. Flocke, Kurt C. Stange, and Stephen J. Zyzanski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Assessing Satisfaction With Health and Health Care: Cognitive and Communicative Processes Norbert Schwarz, Nancy Mathiowetz, and Robert Belli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Comparing Survey Measures of Quality of Medical Care Floyd J. Fowler Jr. and Lin Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Obtaining Patient Reports and Evaluations of Care for Quality Improvement in an Urban Teaching Hospital Lisa E. Harris, William M. Tierney, and Morris Weinberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 DISCUSSION PAPER Reducing Bias in the Measurement of Health Care Satisfaction Catharine W. Burt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 DISCUSSION PAPER Measurement Models and Survey Research: Reliability and Validity Matter Richard T. Campbell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 SESSION SUMMARY Discussion Themes From Session 1 Elinor Walker, Rapporteur, and Daniel Walden, Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 SESSION 2: RESEARCH ON SURVEY QUESTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Measuring and Improving Data Quality in Children's Reports of Dietary Intake Karin A. Mack, Johnny Blair, and Stanley Presser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51