Dynamic assessment of health outcomes: Time to let the CAT out of the bag?

Health Services Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5 II, 2005, Pages 1694-1711

  Cook, Karon F ^a,b   O'Malley, Kimberly J ^c   Roddey, Toni S ^d  

^a Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PEARSON   (United States)

^d TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Psychometrics; Quality of life; Reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ADAPTIVE TESTING; COST; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; THEORY;

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 26444538989     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2005.00446.x     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. Agha, Z., R. P. Lofgren, J. V. VanRuiswyk, and P. M. Layde. 2000. "Are Patients at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers Sicker? A Comparative Analysis of Health Status and Medical Resource Use." Archives of Internal Medicine 160 (21): 3252-7.
2. Anastasi, A. 1988. Psychological Testing. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
3. Andrich, D. A. 1978. "A Rating Formulation for Ordered Response Categories." Psychometrika 43: 561-73.
4. Baker, J. G., J. B. Rounds, and M. A. Zevon. 2000. "A Comparison of Graded Response and Rasch Partial Credit Models with Subjective Well-Being." Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 25: 253-70.
5. Beckerman, H., T. W. Vogelaar, G. J. Lankhorst, and A. L. Verbeek. 1996. "A Criterion for Stability of the Motor Function of the Lower Extremity in Stroke Patients Using the Fugl-Meyer Assessment Scale." Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 28: 3-7.
6. Bergstrom, B. A. 1996. "Computerized Adaptive Testing for the National Certification Examination." Journal of American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 64: 119-24.
7. Birnbaum, A. 1968. "Some Latent Trait Models and Their Use in Inferring an Examinee's Ability." In Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores, edited by F. M. Lord and M. R. Novick. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
8. Bjorner, J. B., M. Kosinski, and J. E. Ware Jr. 2003. "Using Item Response Theory to Calibrate the Headache Impact Test (HIT) to the Metric of Traditional Headache Scales." Quality of Life Research 12 (8): 981-1002.
9. Bowers, D. R. 1991. "Computer-Based Adaptive Testing in Music Research and Instruction." Psychomusicology 10: 49-63.
10. Buxton, J., M. White, and D. Osoba. 1998. "Patients' Experiences Using a Computerized Program with a Touch-Sensitive Video Monitor for the Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life." Quality of Life Research 7 (6): 513-9.
11. Cella, D. F., S. R. Llyod, and B. D. Wright. 1996. "Cross-Cultural Instrument Equating: Current Research and Future Directions." In Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical Trials, 2nd ed., edited by B. Spilker, pp. 705-15. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers.
12. Cook, K. F., G. M. Gartsman, T. S. Roddey, and S. L. Olson. 2001. "The Measurement Level and Trait-Specific Reliability of 4 Scales of Shoulder Functioning: An Empiric Investigation." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 82: 1558-65.
13. Cook, K. F., T. S. Roddey, G. M. Gartsman, and S. Olson. 2003. "Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Flexilevel Scale of Shoulder Function (FLEXSF)." Medical Care 41 (7): 823-35.
14. Dodd, B. G., R. J. De Ayala, and W. R. Koch. 1995. "Computerized Adaptive Testing with Polytomous Items." Applied Psychological Measurement 19: 5-22.
15. Fields, F. A. 1992. "Computerized Adaptive Testing for NCLEX-PN." Journal of Practical Nursing 42: 8-10.
16. Fisher, W. P. Jr., R. F. Harvey, P. Taylor, K. M. Kilgore, and C. K. Kelly. 1995. "Rehabits: A Common Language of Functional Assessment." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 76 (2): 113-22.
17. Folk, V. G., and B. F. Green. 1989. "Adaptive Estimation When the Unidimensionality Assumption of IRT Is Violated." Applied Psychological Measurement 13: 373-89.
18. Gardner, W., K. J. Kelleher, and K. A. Pajer. 2002. " Multidimensional Adaptive Testing for Mental Health Problems in Primary Care." Medical Care 40: 812-23.
19. Hahn, E. A., D. Cella, D. G. Dobrez, G. Shiomoto, S. G. Taylor, A. G. Galvez, P. Diaz, V. Valenzuela, H. L. Chiang, S. Khan, S. A. Hudgens, and H. Du. 2003. "Quality of Life Assessment for Low Literacy Latinos: A New Multimedia Program for Self-Administration." Journal of Oncology Management 12 (5): 9-12.
20. Hahn, E. A., D. Cella, D. Dobrez, G. Shiomoto, E. Marcus, S. G. Taylor, M. Vohra, C. G. Chang, B. D. Wright, J. M. Linacre, B. D. Weiss, V. Valenzuela, H. L. Chiang, and K. Webster. 2004. "The Talking Touchscreen: A New Approach to Outcomes Assessment in Low Literacy." Psycho-Oncology 13: 86-95.
21. Hambleton, R. K., and H. Swaminathan. 1985. Item Response Theory: Principles and Applications. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
22. Harrison, D. A. 1986. "Robustness of IRT Parameter Estimation to Violations of the Unidimensionality Assumption." Journal of Educational Statistics 11: 91-115.
23. Junker, B. W. 1991. "Essential Independence and Likelihood-Based Ability Estimation for Polytomous Items." Psychometrika 56: 255-78.
24. Kirisci, L., H. B. Moss, and R. E. Tarter. 1996. "Psychometric Evaluation of the Situational Confidence Questionnaire in Adolescents: Fitting a Graded Item Response Model." Addictive Behaviors 21 (3): 303-17.
25. Kirisci, L., R. E. Tarter, and T. C. Hsu. 1994. "Fitting a Two-Parameter Logistic Item Response Model to Clarify the Psychometric Properties of the Drug Use Screening Inventory for Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Abusers." Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 18 (6): 1335-41.
26. Kramer, J. F., and L. R. Ng. 1996. "Static and Dynamic Strength of the Shoulder Rotators in Healthy, 45-to 75-Year-Old Men and Women." Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy 24: 11-8.
27. Merriam-Webster Inc. 2003. "Merriam-Webster Online: The Language Center" [accessed June 6, 2003]. Available at http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
28. Lippitt, S. B., D. T. Harryman, and F. A. Matsen. 1993. "A Practical Tool for Evaluating Function: The Simple Shoulder Test." In The Shoulder: A Balance of Mobility and Stability, edited by F. A. Matsen, F. H. Fu, and R. J. Hawkins, pp. 501-30. Rosemont, IL: The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
29. Masters, G. N. 1982. "A Rasch Model for Partial Credit Scoring." Psychometrika 47: 149-74.
30. McHorney, C. A., and A. S. Cohen. 2000. "Equating Health Status Measures with Item Response Theory: Illustrations with Functional Status Items." Medical Care 38 (suppl): 1143-59.
31. Muraki, E. 1992. "A Generalized Partial Credit Model: Application of an EM Algorithm." Applied Psychological Measurement 16: 159-76.
32. Nandakumar, R. 1994. "Assessing Dimensionality of a Set of Item Responses-Comparison of Different Approaches." Journal of Educational Measurement 31: 17-35.
33. Rasch, G. 1960. Probabilistic Models for Some Intelligence and Attainment Tests. Copenhagen: Danmarks Paedogogiske Institut.
34. Reckase, M. D. 1985. "The Difficulty of Test Items That Measure More Than One Ability." Applied Psychological Measurement 9: 401-12.
35. Reise, S. P., and J. M. Henson. 2000. "Computerization and Adaptive Administration of the NEO PI-R." Assessment 7: 347-64.
36. Ruiz, B., P. A. Fitz, C. Lewis, and C. Reidy. 1995. "Computer- Adaptive Testing: A New Breed of Assessment." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 95: 1326-7.
37. Samejima, F. 1969. "Estimation of Latent Ability Using a Response Pattern of Graded Scores." Psychometrika 17 (monograph supplement).
38. Stout, W. F. 1987. "A Nonparametric Approach for Assessing Latent Trait Unidimensionality." Psychometrika 52: 589-617.
39. -. 1990. "A New Item Response Theory Modeling Approach with Applications to Unidimensionality Assessment and Ability Estimation." Psychometrika 55: 293-325.
40. Sutherland, L. A., M. Campbell, K. Ornstein, B. Wildemuth, and D. Lobach. 2001. "Development of an Adaptive Multimedia Program to Collect Patient Health Data." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 21 (4): 320-4.
41. Velozo, C. A., and E. W. Peterson. 2001. "Developing Meaningful Fear of Falling Measures for Community Dwelling Elderly." American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 80: 662-73.
42. Vispoel, W. P. 1993. "Computerized Adaptive and Fixed-Item Versions of the ITED Vocabulary Subtest." Educational and Psychological Measurement 53: 779-89.
43. Vispoel, W. P., T. Wang, and T. Bleiler. 1997. "Computerized Adaptive and Fixed-Item Testing of Music Listening Skill: A Comparison of Efficiency, Precision, and Concurrent Validity." Journal of Educational Measurement 34: 43-63.
44. Wainer, H. 1990. Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Primer. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
45. Waller, N. G., and S. P. Reise. 1989. "Computerized Adaptive Personality Assessment: An Illustration with the Absorption Scale." Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 57: 1051-8.
46. Ware, J. E. Jr., J. B. Bjorner, and M. Kosinski. 2000. "Practical Implications of Item Response Theory and Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Brief Summary of Ongoing Studies of Widely Used Headache Impact Scales." Medical Care 38 (suppl): 1173-82.
47. Weiss, D. J. 2003. "Polytomous CAT." [Written Communication March 12, 2003.]
48. Wolfe, E. W. 2000. "Equating and Item Banking with the Rasch Model." Journal of Applied Measurement 1: 409-34.
49. Wright, B. D., and G. N. Masters. 1982. Rating Scale Analysis. Chicago: Mesa Press.