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QualityMetric Scientist Honored for Work on Women's Health Portal

Landmark Articles Published By QualityMetric Scientists Report Improvements in Short-Form Health Status Measures and Establish Criteria for Future Development

User's Manual for the SF-36v2™ Health Survey Now Available

Part technical manual and part historical text, the User's Manual for the SF-36v2™ Health Survey is a must-read for healthcare decision-makers and researchers, and the perfect addition to any health outcome professional's library.

Seven years in the making, this 300-page volume provides everything a user needs to know to administer, score, and interpret the SF-36v2™ Health Survey.
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New Scoring Software Available for Health Outcomes Researchers

The Medical Outcomes Trust and QualityMetric Health Outcomes Solutions have devoted a decade of collaborative endeavors to standardizing health outcomes measurement and to offering practical, cost-effective, and easy to use tools for measuring and improving health care outcomes. The QualityMetric Health Outcomes™ Scoring Software 2.0 represents the latest advance in this longstanding tradition.

This new version of QualityMetric's popular scoring software is designed to assist users in evaluating the quality of their survey data and improving the validity and precision of scoring. The QualityMetric Health Outcomes™ Scoring Software 2.0 is now available for use in scoring the SF-36® Health Survey, SF-36v2™ Health Survey, SF-12® Health Survey, SF-12v2™ Health Survey, SF-8™ Health Survey, and SF-10™ Health Survey for Children. Learn more

A Call to Establish Common Metrics for Consumer-reported Health Status Measurement

SF-36v2™ and SF-12v2™ Health Surveys Offer Substantial Improvements

NEWS

Computerized Dynamic Estimates of SF-36^® Health Domains Available Royalty-Free for Scholarly Research

AHRQ Adopts Use of SF-12v2™ Health Survey for National Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

QualityMetric Forms Office of Grants and Scholarly Research to Support Use of Patient-reported Health Outcomes Surveys by the Academic/Research Community

QualityMetric Scientists Presented with the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) 2003 Outstanding Article of the Year Award

QualityMetric Launches Full Suite of Asthma Control and Asthma Impact Surveys for Adults and Children at www.qualitymetric.com/asthma

The Health Assessment Lab, under the leadership of John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D., has announced the appointment of Martha Byington as its Executive Director

The following is a chapter from "The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Management", 3rd Edition, edited by Mark E. Maruish.

Article Series Authored by QualityMetric Scientists on the DYNHA® Headache Impact Test™ and the Headache Impact Survey™ Published in "Quality of Life Research"