The Unreliability of Two Publicly Reported Outcome Quality Measures for Characterizing Health Care Quality Within the Veterans Health Administration
Reliability estimates based on the latent scale approach are not numerically or conceptually interchangeable with estimates based on the other two approaches. Given that health outcomes are generally reported using observed outcomes, reliability estimation based on the latent scale approach should not be used without a strong rationale.
Authors
- Alex H. S. Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7267-3077)
- Daniel J. Tancredi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3884-7907)
- Kenneth J. Nieser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6003-1296)
Institutions
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System (US)
- Center For Policy Research (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Center for Innovation (US)
- University of California Davis Medical Center (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Health Services Research
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.70050
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00