Colleen A. McHorney

Research topics

• Health disparities and outcomes · 2 papers
• Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · 1 paper
• Health and Wellbeing Research · 1 paper
• Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · 1 paper
• Healthcare Policy and Management · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• WARE JOHNE · 1 paper
• RACZEK ANASTASIAE · 1 paper
• John E. Ware · 1 paper
• Cathy Donald Sherbourne · 1 paper

Papers

1. The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)Medical Care · 1993 · 6,718 citations

   Cross-sectional data from the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) were analyzed to test the validity of the MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) scales as measures of physical and mental health constructs. Results from traditional psychometric and clinical tests of validity…

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…