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Identifying Effective Health Care Services for Adults with Disabilities
Choosing Wisely: Why Study Designs and Outcome Measures Matter

July 2011

Webinar recording
PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
Issue brief: "Choosing Wisely: Selecting Outcomes for Comparative Effectiveness Research on Services for Adults with Disabilities"
Research brief: "Matching Study Designs to Research Questions in Disability-Related Comparative Effectiveness Research"

Adults with disabilities have diverse, complex, and expensive needs for health care services, costing the health care system $398 billion in 2006. Furthermore, this group, which represented 14 percent of the adult population (approximately 32.5 million American adults) in 2008, will grow larger in the future. Policymakers, practitioners, and the public need a better understanding of what works and works best for these individuals. This forum discussed study designs and outcome measures that can be used to address different comparative effectiveness research questions effectively.

 

Speakers/Panelists

  • Jeff Ballou, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Mathematica
  • Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
    Director, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Matt Kehn, M.P.P., Research Analyst, Mathematica
  • Debra Lipson, M.H.S.A., Senior Researcher, Mathematica
  • Eugene Rich, M.D., Director, Center on Health Care Effectiveness, Mathematica
  • Shoshanna Sofaer, Dr.P.H., Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy,
    School of Public Affairs, Baruch College
  • Sean Tunis, M.D., M.Sc., Founder and Director, Center for Medical Technology Policy
  • Judy Zerzan, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Medical Officer/Deputy Medicaid Director,
    Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing