Survey Design and Validation

Speaker: Ron Hays, PhD

Speaker Bio: Dr. Hays is the Co-Director of the Analysis Core (AnC) of RCMAR CHIME. He has held the position of professor of medicine in the UCLA Department of Medicine and a RAND Corporation consultant since 1997. Prior to this, he worked full-time as a behavioral scientist in the RAND Health program from 1984 until 1997. Dr. Hays is the principal investigator for the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (ARHQ) funded Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) study and principal investigator for a subcontract to UCLA from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) project. As of December 2014, Dr. Hays has published 488 peer-reviewed articles, 13 reviews of the literature and 37 book chapters.

Selected Publications:

• Hays, Ron & Edelen, Maria. (2025). Classical test theory. 10.1016/B978-0-443-26629-4.00122-2. 
• Hays RD, Elliott MN. Performance of the Physical Functioning Activities of Daily Living Scale in the 2020 Medicare Health Outcomes Survey. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2024 Apr;105(4):696-703. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2023.11.005. Epub 2023 Nov 21. PMID: 37995776; PMCID: PMC11097997.
• Hays RD, Hubble D, Jenkins F, Fraser A, Carew B. Methodological and Statistical Considerations for the National Children's Study. Front Pediatr. 2021 Aug 20;9:595059. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.595059.PMID: 34490151; PMCID: PMC8417945.

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