title: Introduction to patient-reported outcome item banks: issues in minority aging research.
abstract: Pre-Conference Workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Geriatrics Society of America San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, 14 November 2012 In 2004, the NIH awarded contracts to initiate the development of high-quality psychological and neuropsychological outcome measures for the improved assessment of health-related outcomes. The workshop introduced these measurement development initiatives, the measures created and the NIH-supported resource (Assessment Center) for internet or tablet-based test administration and scoring. Presentations covered item response theory and assessment of test bias, construction of item banks and computerized adaptive testing, and the different ways in which qualitative analyses contribute to the definition of construct domains and the refinement of outcome constructs. The panel discussion included questions about representativeness of samples and the assessment of cultural bias.
authors.affiliation: Office of Health Research, College of Nursing, Wayne State University, 5557 Cass Avenue, Room 321, MI 48083, USA. t.templin@wayne.edu
authors.forename: Thomas N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Templin
authors.forename: Ron D
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authors.lastname: Hays
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Gershon
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rothrock
authors.forename: Richard N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Jeanne A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Teresi
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: Robert
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authors.lastname: Weech-Maldonado
authors.forename: Steve
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authors.lastname: Wallace
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D015982:Bias; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014481:United States