Advancing Health Outcomes Research Methods and Clinical Applications

							                                        Advancing Health Outcomes Research Methods
                                                  and Clinical Applications
Table Contents
A Broad Look at Outcomes Research
1. Measuring Quality of Life for Policy Analysis: Past, Present, and Future .................................................................. 1
    Robert M. Kaplan
Item Response Theory
2. Item Response Theory and Beyond: Advances in Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement ................................. 37
    Chih-Hung Chang
3. Assessing the Fit of IRT Models to Educational and Psychological Test Data:
    A Five-Step Plan and Several Graphical Displays .................................................................................................... 57
    Ronald K. Hambleton and Ning Han
Computerized Approaches to Qualitative Text Analysis
4. Assessing Quality of Life through Natural Language Use: Implications of Computerized Text Analysis ............... 79
    Cindy K. Chung and James W. Pennebaker
5. Automated Systems That Analyze Text and Discourse: QUAID, Coh-Metrix, and AutoTutor................................ 95
    Arthur C. Graesser and Sarah Petschonek
Longitudinal Data Analysis
6. A Latent Variable Growth Model Approach to Analyzing Multiple Health Outcomes from Clinical Trials.......... 113
    Max Su and Marcia A. Testa
7. GEE and Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies...................................................................................................... 139
    Joseph W. Hogan
8. Missing Data: A Sensitivity Analysis...................................................................................................................... 155
    Herbert Thijs, Geert Molenberghs, Ivy Jansen,Caroline Beunckens,
    Michael G. Kenward,Craig Mallinckrodt, and Raymond J. Carroll
9. Understanding the Correlation between Biologic and Symptom Measures over Time ........................................... 177
    Diane L. Fairclough and Xin Shelley Wang
Outcomes Research Applied
10. Regulatory Perspective on Outcomes Research ...................................................................................................... 191
    Robert J. Meyer
11. Interpreting the Results of Quality-of-Life Measures in Clinical Trials: The Clinician’s Perspective.................... 201
    Holger J. Schünemann and Gordon H. Guyatt
Theoretical Issues in Research on Health Status, Quality of Life, and Well-Being
12. The Psychology of Quality of Life .......................................................................................................................... 213
    M. Joseph Sirgy
13. Language and Culture: Moving between Theory and Practice in Cross-Cultural Research.................................... 231
    Julia A. Fox-Rushby, Kirstin Johnson, Isaac Mwanzo, Mary Amuyunzu, Tim Allen, and Melissa Parker
14. Self-Regulatory Fit and Quality of Life................................................................................................................... 249
    Karen L. Langsam, Antonio L. Freitas, and E. Tory Higgins
15. Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life: Does Prospect Theory Help? .............................................................. 265
    Eve Wittenberg
16. Daily Process Designs: Applications to Quality-of-Life and Health Outcomes Research ...................................... 281
    Howard Tennen, Glenn Affleck, and Alex Zautra
Bayesian Methodology
17. Bayesian Analysis of Health Status and Quality-of-Life Data ................................................................................ 305
    Dennis G. Fryback and Janel E. Hanmer
Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Utility Measurement
18. Building a Better QALY: General Health-State Utility Measures ......................................................................... 325
    F. Reed Johnson
19. Software Tools for Quality-Adjusted Survival Analysis Using Q-TWiST ............................................................. 337
    Bernard F. Cole, Shari Gelber, and Richard D. Gelber
20. Comparing and Contrasting Utilities and Willingness to Pay ................................................................................. 353
    David Feeny
Looking to the Future of Outcomes Research
21. Future Directions for HRQOL................................................................................................................................. 369
    Peter Fayers