The Primary Care Assessment Survey: Tests of Data Quality and Measurement Performance

Medical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 728-739

  Safran, Dana Gelb ^a,d   Kosinski, Mark ^a   Tarlov, Alvin R ^a,b,c   Rogers, William H ^a   Taira, Deborah A ^a   Lieberman, Naomi ^a   Ware, John E ^a,b,c  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Health Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality; Measurement performance; Primary Care Assessment Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0032065925     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199805000-00012     Document Type: Article

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