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Publications

Case Studies:

• Using the SF-36 and SF-12 Health Surveys to Predict Medical Expenses
• Making Pharmaceutical History: An ARAVA Case Study
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Spine Center: Changing Clinical Practice with the SF-36 Health Survey

Articles:

The following is an article published in the Quality of Life Newsletter, Item Banking Special Issue, Fall 2004
Item Banking and the Improvement of Health Status Measures

The following is a chapter from "The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Management", 3rd Edition, edited by Mark E. Maruish.
SF-36 Health Survey Update

The following article summarizes personal views on the rapidly evolving field of functional health assessment and comments on their implications for advances in assessment methods used in rehabilitation medicine.
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life: Comments on an Evolving Field

Nine Article Series in Special Issue of "Quality of Life Research" (December 2003) on Topics Relating to the DYNHA® Headache Impact Test™ and the Headache Impact Survey™
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• The feasibility of applying item response theory to measures of migraine impact: A re-analysis of three clinical studies (272 KB)
• The responsiveness of headache impact scales scored using 'classical' and 'modern' psychometric methods: A re-analysis of three clinical trials(106 KB)
• Calibration of an item pool for assessing the burden of headaches: An application of item response theory to the Headache Impact Test HIT™)(292 KB)
• Applications of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) to the assessment of headache impact(324 KB)
• A study of the feasibility of Internet administration of a computerized health survey: The headache impact test (HIT™) (103 KB)
• A six-item short-form survey for measuring headache impact: The HIT-6™ (199 KB)
• Translating the Short-Form Headache Impact Test (HIT-6) in 27 countries: Methodological and conceptual issues (86 KB)
• Using item response theory to calibrate the Headache Impact Test (HIT™) to the metric of traditional headache scales (267 KB)
• Usefulness of the SF-8™ Health Survey for comparing the impact of migraine and other conditions(110 KB)

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