Cathy Donald Sherbourne

Research topics

• Health disparities and outcomes · 2 papers
• Health and Wellbeing Research · 1 paper
• Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention · 1 paper
• Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · 1 paper
• Healthcare Policy and Management · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• John E. Ware · 2 papers
• Colleen A. McHorney · 1 paper

Papers

1. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)Medical Care · 1992 · 30,301 citations

   A 36-item short-form (SF-36) was constructed to survey health status in the Medical Outcomes Study. The SF-36 was designed for use in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and general population surveys. The SF-36 includes one multi-item scale that…

2. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): III. Tests of Data Quality, Scaling Assumptions, and Reliability Across Diverse Patient GroupsMedical Care · 1994 · 4,494 citations

   The widespread use of standardized health surveys is predicated on the largely untested assumption that scales constructed from those surveys will satisfy minimum psychometric requirements across diverse population groups. Data from the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) were used to evaluate…