MEASURING HEALTH OUTCOMES

POPHLTH 796

Introduces students to a variety of perspectives, substantive areas and methodological approaches to health services research that provide the foundation for understanding the structure, process and outcomes of the U.S. health care system.

POPHLTH 709

Seeks to review the conceptualization of translational and outcomes research in health and health care settings; to illustrate basic concepts and methods in research as applied to current issues in health and health care settings; and to understand the diverse perspectives that can be used to inform translational and outcomes research in different organizations, including those based within communities.

BMI/POPHLTH 551

Designed for population health researcher. Topics include descriptive statistics, elementary probability, probability distributions, one- and two-sample normal inference (point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals), power and sample size calculations, one- and two-sample binomial inference, underlying assumptions and diagnostic work.

OCCTHER 873

Explore quality assurance in OT service delivery (including consumer satisfaction) and objective and subjective functional and occupational performance measures of OT interventions. Includes review of principles of measurement (reliability, validity and clinical utility). Examines general themes and trends in healthcare outcomes measurement and research as well as issues germane to specific areas of OT practice. Learn strategies and skills for assessing the psychometric properties and clinical utility of a variety of outcomes measures.

CNSRSCI 851

Provides broad knowledge of major quantitative measures of consumer well-being. Investigates construction of and literature on well-being measures across various domains.