Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life .
Committee on Care at the End of Life, Institute of Medicine. National
Academy Press. 1997.
Assessment and Culture: Psychological Tests with Minority Populations.
Sharon Ann Gopaul-McNicol and Eleanor Armour-Thomas. Academic Press. 2002.
Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Science. Jean
Watson. Springer. 2002.
A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests: Administration, Norms, and
Commentary. Otfried Spreen and Esther Strauss. Oxford University Press.
1998.
The Fourteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Edited by Barbara
S. Plake, James C. Impara, and Linda L. Murphy. Buros Institute of Mental
Measurements, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 2001.
Handbook of Multicultural Assessment. Edited by Lisa A. Suzuki, Joseph
G. Ponterotto, and Paul J. Meller. Jossey-Bass. 2001.
Handbook of Psychiatric Measures. American Psychiatric Association.
2000.
Handbook of Psychological Assessment. Gary Groth-Marnat. 4th edition.
John Wiley & Sons. 2003.
Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and
Use. David L. Streiner and Geoffrey R. Norman. 3rd edition. Oxford
University Press. 2003.
Instrumentation in Human Relations Training: A Guide to 75 Instruments
with Wide Application to the Behavioral Sciences. University Associates.
1973.
Instruments for Clinical Health-Care Research. Marilyn Frank-Stromborg
and Sharon J. Olsen. 3rd edition. Jones and Bartlett. 2004.
Instruments for Measuring Nursing Practice and Other Health Care Variables.
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. 1979.
Major Psychological Assessment Instruments. Charles Newmark. Allyn
and Bacon. 1985.
Major Psychological Assessment Instruments. Volume II. Charles
Newmark. Allyn and Bacon. 1989.
Measurement in Nursing and Health Research. Carolyn Feher
Waltz, Ora Lea Strickland, and Elizabeth R. Lenz. 3rd edition. Springer.
2005.
Measurement of Nursing Outcomes. Springer.
Volume 1: Measuring Nursing Performance in Practice, Education,
and Research (2001)
Volume 2: Client Outcome and Quality of Care (2003)
Volume 3 (2nd edition): Self Care and Coping (2003)
Measurement Tools in Patient Education. Barbara Redman. Springer.
2003.
Measurements for Long-Term Care. Sarah Beaton and Susan Voge. Sage.
1998.
Measures of Religiosity. Religious Education Press. 1999.
Measuring Disease. Ann Bowling. 2nd edition. Open University Press.
2001.
Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires.
Ian McDowell and Claire Newell. Oxford University Press. 1996.
Nursing Quality Indicators Beyond Acute Care: Measurement Instruments.
American Nurses Association. American Nurses Publishing. 2000.
Rating Scales in Mental Health. Martha Sajatovic and Luis F. Ramirez.
2nd edition. 2003.
Self-Efficacy in Nursing: Research and Measurement Perspectives. Edited
by Elizabeth R. Lenz and Lillie M. Shortridge-Baggett. Springer. 2002.
SPM Handbook of Health Assessment Tools. Society of Prospective Medicine.
Institute for Health and Productivity Management. 1999.
Videos
Intrepreting Results: What Do the Numbers Mean? [1 video with
guide]. Woodbridge, NJ : HealthStat Productions, 1998. 40 minutes. (Understanding
health outcomes. Series 1, Health status)
Synopsis: Focuses on how to interpret the results from patient-based health
surveys.
Measurement Tools: How to Choose. [1 video with guide]. Woodbridge, NJ : HealthStat Productions, 1998. 40 minutes. (Understanding health outcomes. Series 1, Health status)
Synopsis: Program designed to create improved understanding of the language, concepts, meaning, and practical applications of patient-based health outcomes surveys.
Measuring Health Status: A Case for Self-Assessment. [1 video with
guide]. Woodbridge, NJ : HealthStat Productions, 1997. 31 minutes. (Understanding
health outcomes. Series 1, Health status)
Synopsis: Examines health status as assessed by the patient or the individual,
and why it has become so important, taking its place among the "vital
signs" of health. Asks what is health, what are health outcomes,
and why go to the patient.
The Science of Health Measurement: Introduction. [1 video with
guide]. Woodbridge, NJ : HealthStat Productions, 1997. 35 minutes. (Understanding
health outcomes. Series 1, Health status)
Synopsis: Examines the science behind health surveys, and highlights the
characteristics of measures that affect their usefulness. What are the
goals of measurement in health care? How is health measured? How are health
surveys constructed?
The SF-36 and SF-12 Health Surveys: How to Use Them. [1 video
with guide]. Woodbridge, NJ : HealthStat Productions, 1997. 44 minutes.
(Understanding health outcomes. Series 1, Health status)
Synopsis: Focuses on two health surveys, the SF-36 and SF-12, and examines
why and how they were developed, how scores are calculated and interpreted,
and illustrates a variety of their uses.
VC 2084
Using Health Measures: Outcomes Research. [1 video with guide].
Woodbridge, NJ : HealthStat Productions, 1998. 33 minutes. (Understanding
health outcomes. Series 1, Health status)
Synopsis: Designed to create improved understanding of the language, concepts,
meaning and practical applications of patient-based health outcomes surveys.
Using Health Measures: Population Monitoring. [1 video with guide].
Woodbridge, NJ : HealthStat Productions, 1998. 23 minutes. (Understanding
health outcomes. Series 1, Health status)
Synopsis: Designed to create improved understanding of the language, concepts,
meaning and practical applications of patient-based health outcomes surveys.
Web Sites
Note: Unpublished tests or instruments often
must be obtained directly from the authors.
Buros Center for Testing
Publishers of the Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print. Allows
one to search for tests part of the Mental Measurements Yearbook in the
Test Reviews Online search engine.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Instrument description information can be found by entering the search
string: research instrument.pt. (pt=publication type) or by using words
from the title of a particular instrument.
See also Research
Instruments in CINAHL
ETS Test Collection
Database
Able to search for 20,000 tests and other measurement devices via TestLink,
the Test Collection Database.
The Medical Algorithms Project
More than 5,100 algorithms (computation, formula, survey, or look-up table)
are maintained at this site by the Institute for Algorithmic Medicine.
PubMed
Helpful MeSH headings for the concept of tests and measurement include:
questionnaires, psychological tests, psychometrics outcome, and process
assessment (health care). Database may be searched using important words
from the title of a particular instrument.
ProQolid: The Patient-Reported
Outcome and Quality of Life Instruments Database
Describes more than 480 Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) measures.
Full access only available via an annual subscription.
Tests
and Measures in the Social Sciences
A listing of around 10,000 measures in 83 resources created by Helen Hough,
a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Texas at Arlington.
The list of resources on this page isnot intended to be complete or comprehensive.
The selected resources included are representative of the subject area
covered and are an excellent starting point for further research. Additional
print and electronic information can be found by conducting your own literature
search, consulting other library collections, or contacting a professional
librarian/informationist for assistance. Please check with your local
library to determine availability of these resources and local library
access to national interlibrary loan networks for resources not owned
locally. This list of resources is updated regularly as new resources
are identified by the Mayo Clinic Libraries, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
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