Contemporary health services research relies heavily on patient-based measures of health status and other outcomes of health care. This course covers techniques for defining health status constructs to be measured and the content of questionnaires, psychometric procedures of scale development and evaluation, as well as the theoretical bases of patient-based health status assessment in the context of outcomes research. Practical issues of selecting and applying measures in designing health outcomes research are addressed.

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