J Lessler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3484231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Lessler |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lessler |
| SIGNATURE | LESSLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | RTI International |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Interviewer Training
Cognitive Laboratory Methods: A Taxonomy
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Cognitive Laboratory Methods General Theoretical Framework and Taxonomy Conclusions
Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questions
An examination of survey pretesting reveals a paradox. On the one hand, pretesting is the only way to evaluate in advance whether a questionnaire causes problems for interviewers or respondents. Consequently, both elementary textbooks and experienced researchers declare pretesting indispensable. On the other hand, most textbooks offer minimal, if any, guidance about pretesting methods, and published survey reports usually provide no information a…
Monitoring the Health Status and Impact of Treatment on Americans: The Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry
OBJECTIVE: A major new survey program, the Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR), has been proposed to improve the monitoring of the health status of Medicare beneficiaries. The MBHSR would collect data by mail with telephone follow up of nonrespondents to permit economical assessment of a total Registry of approximately 200,000 Medicare beneficiaries, approximately 54,000 of whom would be surveyed in any given year. (Surveys would …
The Quality of Health Data Obtained in a New Survey of Elderly Americans: A Validation Study of the Proposed Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR)
The Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR) is a proposed new survey program that would collect health status indicators annually from large probability samples of Medicine beneficiaries. For reasons of economy, the MBHSR would use mail survey procedures with telephone follow-up of nonrespondents. Because of concerns about response rates and the validity and reliability of the data obtained by such methods, a large-scale (N = 1,922) f…
Nonsampling Error in Surveys
Personal versus telephone surveys for collecting household health data at the local level
Personal and telephone interview surveys were conducted simultaneously during 1981 in the same area (four counties in the area of Tampa Bay, Florida) and utilizing the same interview schedule. Following completion of the surveys, validity checks were made with the medical providers reported by a subsample of respondents to each mode. The telephone survey yielded a lower response rate but cost less than half the personal interview. There was some …
Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questions
An examination of survey pretesting reveals a paradox. On the one hand, pretesting is the only way to evaluate in advance whether a questionnaire causes problems for interviewers or respondents. Consequently, both elementary textbooks and experienced researchers declare pretesting indispensable. On the other hand, most textbooks offer minimal, if any, guidance about pretesting methods, and published survey reports usually provide no information a…
Personal versus telephone surveys for collecting household health data at the local level
Personal and telephone interview surveys were conducted simultaneously during 1981 in the same area (four counties in the area of Tampa Bay, Florida) and utilizing the same interview schedule. Following completion of the surveys, validity checks were made with the medical providers reported by a subsample of respondents to each mode. The telephone survey yielded a lower response rate but cost less than half the personal interview. There was some …
The Quality of Health Data Obtained in a New Survey of Elderly Americans: A Validation Study of the Proposed Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR)
The Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR) is a proposed new survey program that would collect health status indicators annually from large probability samples of Medicine beneficiaries. For reasons of economy, the MBHSR would use mail survey procedures with telephone follow-up of nonrespondents. Because of concerns about response rates and the validity and reliability of the data obtained by such methods, a large-scale (N = 1,922) f…
Personal versus telephone surveys for collecting household health data at the local level
Personal and telephone interview surveys were conducted simultaneously during 1981 in the same area (four counties in the area of Tampa Bay, Florida) and utilizing the same interview schedule. Following completion of the surveys, validity checks were made with the medical providers reported by a subsample of respondents to each mode. The telephone survey yielded a lower response rate but cost less than half the personal interview. There was some …
Nonsampling Error in Surveys
The Quality of Health Data Obtained in a New Survey of Elderly Americans: A Validation Study of the Proposed Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR)
The Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR) is a proposed new survey program that would collect health status indicators annually from large probability samples of Medicine beneficiaries. For reasons of economy, the MBHSR would use mail survey procedures with telephone follow-up of nonrespondents. Because of concerns about response rates and the validity and reliability of the data obtained by such methods, a large-scale (N = 1,922) f…
Monitoring the Health Status and Impact of Treatment on Americans: The Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry
OBJECTIVE: A major new survey program, the Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR), has been proposed to improve the monitoring of the health status of Medicare beneficiaries. The MBHSR would collect data by mail with telephone follow up of nonrespondents to permit economical assessment of a total Registry of approximately 200,000 Medicare beneficiaries, approximately 54,000 of whom would be surveyed in any given year. (Surveys would …
Cognitive Laboratory Methods: A Taxonomy
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Cognitive Laboratory Methods General Theoretical Framework and Taxonomy Conclusions
Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questions
An examination of survey pretesting reveals a paradox. On the one hand, pretesting is the only way to evaluate in advance whether a questionnaire causes problems for interviewers or respondents. Consequently, both elementary textbooks and experienced researchers declare pretesting indispensable. On the other hand, most textbooks offer minimal, if any, guidance about pretesting methods, and published survey reports usually provide no information a…
Interviewer Training
Psychology (4 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse (3 works) · Beneficiary (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Geography (2 works)