Matthew H Liang

Biographic Data

ID4720669
NAMEMatthew H Liang
GIVEN NAMESMatthew H
FAMILY NAMELiang
SIGNATURELIANG M H
AFFILIATIONSBrigham and Women's Hospital
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS22
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX2

  • The Effect of Cash Lottery on Response Rates to an Online Health Survey among Members of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons

    Open AccessPaul Doerfling, Jacek A Kopec et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2010Cited by: 1References: 16

  • The self‐administered comorbidity questionnaire

    Open AccessOliver Sangha, Gerold Stucki et al.ARTICLEArthritis Care & Research2003

  • A Festschrift in Honor of Halsted R. Holman, MD

    Matthew H Liang, Harold I Goldberg et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2002

    Hospital in New York. In Dr. Henry Kunkel's lab at Rockefeller Institute, Hal Holman identified antinuclear and antiDNA antibodies that, along with Hargreaves's description of the lupus cell, provided the first evidence of autoimmunity, contrary to the dictum of Paul Ehrlich that autoimmunity was impossible. With his Rockefeller Institute colleague Jules Hirsch, Halsted lectured in schools and church basements about the perils of the nuclear arms…

  • Measuring Clinically Important Changes With Patient-Oriented Questionnaires

    Matthew H Liang, Robert Lew et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2002References: 29

    BACKGROUND: The measurement of the patient's experience with a condition or an illness is an important and quantifiable outcome and an example of action research. By making these concerns paramount, the goals and processes of health care can be redirected from anatomical and physiologic restoration to patient-oriented outcomes. At the same time, research can illuminate the complex mechanisms responsible. METHODS: Critical, analytic synthesis and …

  • Longitudinal Construct Validity

    Matthew H LiangARTICLEMedical Care2000References: 30

    Objectives. Although widely used and reported in research for the evaluation of groups, measures of health status and health-related quality of life have had little application in clinical practice for the assessment of individual patients. One of the principal barriers is the demonstration that these measures add clinically significant information to measures of function or symptoms alone. Here, we review the methods for evaluation of construct …

  • Discrepancies between self-reported and observed physical function in the elderly

    Open AccessLawren H Daltroy, Martin G Larson et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1999Cited by: 19References: 3

  • Response and Commentary

    Matthew H Liang, BYRON B HAMILTONARTICLEMedical Care1997Cited by: 2References: 2

    From the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Division of Primary Care and General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Address correspondence to: Matthew H. Liang, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115

  • Stability and Responsiveness of Utility Measures

    Jeffrey N Katz, Charlotte B Phillips et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1994

    Katz, Jeffrey N. MD, MS; Phillips, Charlotte B. MPH; Fossel, Anne H.; Liang, Matthew H. MD, MPH Author Information

  • Responsiveness of Self-Reported and Objective Measures of Disease Severity in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

    Jeffrey N Katz, Richard H Gelberman et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1994

    Responsiveness, the ability to detect meaningful clinical change, is a critical attribute of instruments used to evaluate outcomes of treatments. The authors hypothesized that self-administered symptom severity and functional status questionnaires are more responsive to clinical improvement after carpal tunnel release than traditional physical examination measures of strength and sensibility. Data were obtained from a randomized clinical trial of…

  • Comparative Measurement Sensitivity of Short and Longer Health Status Instruments

    Jeffrey N Katz, Martin G Larson et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1992

    Short measures of health status are used increasingly in health services research, yet their sensitivities to clinical change have not been compared with longer, established instruments. In this study, 5 health status measures were administered preoperatively and 3 months postoperatively to 54 patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty. These instruments included the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP)--an established, long measure--and 4 short forms: …

  • Comparisons of Five Health Status Instruments for Orthopedic Evaluation

    Matthew H Liang, Anne H Fossel et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1990

    This study represents a long-term effort to find optimal techniques for evaluating outcome in patients who have undergone total joint arthroplasty. Sensitivity of five health status questionnaires was studied in a longitudinal evaluation of orthopedic surgery. The questionnaires (Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales [AIMS], Functional Status Index [FSI], Health Assessment Questionnaire [HAQ], Index of Well Being [IWB], and Sickness Impact Profile …

  • Effects of Reducing Physical Therapy Services on Outcomes in Total Joint Arthroplasty

    Matthew H Liang, Karen E Cullen et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1987

    A natural experiment provided an opportunity to determine whether physical therapy (PT) service reduction would affect the outcomes of total joint arthroplasty. A sample of 200 patients with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis who underwent total hip or total knee replacement during successive reduction of services was randomly selected. The demographic and clinical characteristics of patients in each period were similar. Despite large differe…

  • Evaluating primary care

    Open AccessMatthew H LiangARTICLESocial Science & Medicine Part B…1980