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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality Using QualityMetric's SF-12v2™ Health Survey
QualityMetric Releases Significant
Update of SF Bibliography
QualityMetric Releases
SF-12v2™ Health Survey User's Manual
QualityMetric Streamlines Access
to Health Outcomes Surveys
Ware Receives Donabedian Award
from ISPOR
Modern Psychometric Methods
"Score" at the Winter Olympics
SF Survey Licensing and User
Registration Simplified and On-line
Recipes for Health Measures and
Gingerbread Cookies
Scholars Debate Interpretation
of SF-36® Summary Health Measures
Can item response theory
reduce respondent burden in health assessments?
Japanese SF-36 User's
Manual Published by Fukuhara
The SF-36 Physical and
Mental Health Summary Scales: A Manual for Users - Just Published
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Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality Using QualityMetric's SF-12v2™ Health Survey Lincoln, RI. - September 15, 2003 – QualityMetric Incorporated, a leader in the development
and marketing of patient-reported outcomes that measure health-related quality of life, announced today
that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has adopted the SF-12v2™ Health Survey for
the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). MEPS is a vital national resource designed to provide policymakers,
health care administrators, businesses, and others with timely, comprehensive information about health care
use and costs in the United States. MEPS used the original SF-12® before switching to the SF-12v2 in early 2003.
The reasons underlying AHRQ’s decision to update survey versions from v1 to v2 included:
Also noteworthy is AHRQ’s decision to take advantage of QualityMetric’s Missing Data Estimator (MDE) which makes
it possible to calculate scale and summary scores for survey respondents who did not answer every item. MDE is
available exclusively through QualityMetric’s scoring service, available online at www.qualitymetric.com,
with the launch of a scoring software product scheduled for early 2004. MDE was first used by AHRQ to maximize the value of
their data collected in 2000. In addition to MDE, QualityMetric’s scoring service includes:
“The SF-12v2 is an improved measurement tool over the v1 in several key areas,” commented John E. Ware Jr., PhD,
chief executive officer and chief science officer of QualityMetric. “Many SF license holders are now switching to v2
and we expect the number to keep rising. Offering health care clients better and more precise measurement tools
underscores the mission of this company,” Ware continued. “Our SF-36®, SF-12®, and SF-8™
Health Surveys have become the hallmarks of standardized outcomes measurement. Improving those surveys and making them easier
to use with services such as data scoring is a logical extension of our efforts to put the voice of the consumer in health
care decision-making.”
The SF-12v2 is a 12-item subset of the SF-36v2™ survey that measures the same eight domains of health. As a brief,
reliable measure of overall health status, the SF-12v2 is the instrument of choice in large population health surveys and
has been used extensively as a screening tool. Because of its brevity, it is frequently embedded in longer, condition-specific
surveys.
Yielding an eight-scale profile and physical and mental summary scores that are comparable with those from the SF-36 in
both general and specific populations, the SF-12v2 was developed by QualityMetric to improve on the SF-12 in scoring, item
construction, and survey layout. The SF-12v2 can be self-administered, computer-administered, or given by a trained interviewer
in person or by telephone to persons ages 14 and older, and usually takes two to three minutes to complete. The survey has
been translated and adapted for use in 36 countries.
Additionally, the SF-12v2™ Health Survey User's Manual is available to introduce and thoroughly document the SF-12v2
survey and includes information on the comparability of scoring between the v1 and v2 surveys.
MEPS represents the most recent in a series of national medical expenditure surveys conducted by the federal government
since 1977. After a ten-year hiatus in these surveys, MEPS began in 1996 to collect longitudinal information continuously
from a national probability sample on the financing and utilization of medical care in the United States. Designed by AHRQ’s
Center for Cost and Financing Studies, MEPS provides timely, comprehensive information about US health care costs and use to
policymakers, health care administrators, health service researchers, and others. Publicly available MEPS files link data
health service researchers on health care spending and health insurance with that on demographics, employment, income, health
status, and other respondent characteristics. The MEPS sampling frame supports analyses of special populations, such as the poor,
elderly, uninsured, and minorities. For more information about MEPS, go to www.meps.ahrq.gov,
or send an email to mepspd@ahrq.gov.
QualityMetric Incorporated, an independently and privately held corporation located in Lincoln, RI, was founded in 1997 by
John E. Ware Jr., PhD, principal developer of the SF-36®, SF-12®, and SF-8™ Health Surveys.
For more information, contact: QualityMetric Incorporated, 640 George Washington Highway, Suite 201, Lincoln, RI 02865, USA. Fax:
401-334-8801, or visit us at www.qualitymetric.com.
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