Computerized Dynamic Estimates of SF-36^® Health Domains Available Royalty-Free for Scholarly Research 07-20-2004

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Using QualityMetric's SF-12v2™ Health Survey
09-15-2003

QualityMetric Releases Significant Update of SF Bibliography
05-05-2003

QualityMetric Releases SF-12v2™ Health Survey User's Manual
10-30-2002

QualityMetric Streamlines Access to Health Outcomes Surveys
10-02-2002

Ware Receives Donabedian Award from ISPOR
05-21-2002

Modern Psychometric Methods "Score" at the Winter Olympics
02-20-2002

SF Survey Licensing and User Registration Simplified and On-line
01-28-2002

Recipes for Health Measures and Gingerbread Cookies
01-01-2002

Scholars Debate Interpretation of SF-36® Summary Health Measures
09-08-2001

Can item response theory reduce respondent burden in health assessments?
08-14-2001

Japanese SF-36 User's Manual Published by Fukuhara
06-29-2001

The SF-36 Physical and Mental Health Summary Scales: A Manual for Users - Just Published
04-16-2001

QualityMetric and invivodata Join Forces to Optimize Health Outcome Assessments for Handheld Devices Used in Clinical Trials
03-26-2001

Modern Psychometric Methods "Score" at the Winter Olympics
02-20-2002
Modern psychometric methods, and specifically a Rasch scale like those being used to improve measures of physical functioning and other HR-QOL domains, has again come to the rescue in the midst of a controversy regarding partiality among Olympic judges. A recent story in the Canadian Globe and Mail (“New scoring system would have iced the gold for Canadians”) summarizes the current controversy and the history of applications of Rasch measurement models to results of Olympic skating finals. For example, according to a Rasch scale, American Nancy Kerrigan should have beaten Ukranian, Oksana Baiul for the gold in 1994. According to these measurement models, from 1976 to 1994 all judges favored skaters from their own countries. So, who really won in 2002? According to our Chicago-based colleague Mike Linacre, the Canadian pair won the gold.