Instrumentation/Measurement. 3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

This course focuses on specific techniques to measure outcomes in clinical and health services research. The course is appropriate for doctoral students, clinical and translational researchers and trainees, and advanced masters-level students with interest in health care outcomes assessment. The course is designed to provide students with in-depth familiarity of techniques and measurement instruments that are most useful to quantify and evaluate outcomes in domains such as: health status, quality of life, patient satisfaction, pain, depression and other mental health conditions, function and disability, adherence with treatment, costs and cost-effectiveness, other economic and social outcomes, and specialized outcome measures for pediatric, geriatric, and other distinctive populations. Prerequisites: NURS 7316 , NURS 7315 , NURS 7317 Open for Cross Enrollment on Space Available Basis.