The Reliability and Validity of Lung Cancer and Melanoma Clinical Quality Survival Measures

Results suggest that these cancer survival measures demonstrated adequate test–retest reliability and expected findings for the known-group validity analysis.

The Critical Role of Web Accessibility in Health Information Access, Understanding, and Use

This brief describes the state of accessibility of digital tools and top U.S. hospitals websites and provides guidance on how to start improving access to health care information.

Real-World Adherence to Patient-Reported Outcome Monitoring as a Cancer Care Quality Metric

Routine collection of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) for patients with advanced solid malignancies is an evidence-based practice and critical component of high-quality cancer care, but real-world adherence is poorly characterized.

Landscape of Health Systems in the United States

Despite the prevalence of vertical integration, data and research focused on identifying and describing health systems are sparse.

Leveraging Diverse Data Sources to Identify and Describe U.S. Health Care Delivery Systems

Researchers assess available data sources to identify and describe health care delivery systems, including system members and their relationships. They summarize strengths and limitations for identifying and describing systems due to varied content, linkages across data sources, and data collection.

National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 5 (Volume 3 of 3): User’s Guide for Restricted and Public Use Files

This report provides information about NBS restricted- and public-use data files, including file construction; weight specification and variance estimation; masking procedures employed in Public-Use File creation; and a detailed overview of the questionnaire design, sampling, and data collection.

National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 5 (Volume 1 of 3): Editing, Coding, Imputation, and Weighting Procedures

This report summarizes the editing, coding, imputation, and weighting procedures as well as the development of standard errors for Round 5 of the NBS–General Waves.

National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 5: (Volume 2 of 3) Data Cleaning and Identification of Data Problems

This report describes the data processing procedures performed for Round 5 of the NBS–General Waves.

Assessing the Accuracy of Three National Physician Sampling Frames

Partnership for Patients: Interim Evaluation Report

This is an interim evaluation report for the Partnership for Patients (PfP) campaign. The goals of the evaluation were to assess the reduction in inpatient harms and readmissions during the period 2011–2014, and to assess, if possible, the contribution that PfP made to those reductions.

The Results Are Only as Good as the Sample: Assessing Three National Physician Sampling Frames

Databases of practicing physicians are important for studies that require sampling physicians or counting the physician population in a given area. However, little is known about how the three main sampling frames differ from each other.

Methods of Observing Variations in Physicians' Decisions: The Opportunities of Clinical Vignettes

To support their efforts to promote high quality and efficient care, policymakers need to better understand the key factors associated with variations in physicians’ decisions, and in particular, physician deviations from evidence-based care.

HIV Clinician Workforce Study

This study is the first large-scale effort to identify the number of HIV clinicians practicing in the United States, to characterize their workforce behavior, and to assess HIV workforce needs at the national and regional levels.

Conducting Surveys with Proxies: Evaluating a Standardized Measure to Determine Need

This working paper describes a three-question telephone screener used with the National Beneficiary Survey to standardize interviewers' assessments of whether sample members had the capacity to complete a survey or if a proxy was needed.

Seclusion and Restraint Practices in Residential Treatment Facilities for Children and Youth

Using data from two national surveys, this article examines the extent to which residential treatment facilities consistently implement certain practices following incidents of seclusion or restraint.