Floyd Jackson Fowler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81794 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Floyd Jackson Fowler |
| PRENOMES | Floyd Jackson |
| SOBRENOME | Fowler |
| ASSINATURA | FOWLER F J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5889-6362 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Validation of the Impact Index
Let’s Require Patients to Review a High-quality Decision Aid Before Receiving Important Tests and Treatments
THE PROBLEM When providing medical care, choices often must be made among 2 or more medically reasonable options. In the United States, and elsewhere, most of those decisions are made by physicians, with patients being relatively uninformed and uninvolved, sometimes not even knowing more than 1 option existed.1–3 Many prominent groups have called for more shared decision making, asking physicians to make efforts to provide patients faced with a d…
Comparing Web and Mail Protocols for Administering Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Surveys
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare results of using web-based and mail (postal) Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) data collection protocols. RESEARCH DESIGN: Patients who had been hospitalized in a New England Hospital were surveyed about their hospital experience. Patients who provided email addresses were randomized to 1 of 3 data collection protocols: web-alone, web with postal mail fo…
Which Subject Lines and Messages Improve Response to E-mail Invitations to Web Surveys
What subject lines and messages in an e-mailed invitation maximize cooperation for a web survey? Answering this question is ever more important as survey researchers increasingly turn to web surveys to reduce costs. We test respondents’ preferences for subject lines and messages in an e-mailed invitation to participate in a Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey. Findings suggest that respondents prefer informative and str…
Validation of a New Three-Item Self-Report Measure for Medication Adherence
Coding Cognitive Interviews
Cognitive testing has become routine for well-designed surveys. However, the protocols for cognitive testing vary widely, and observers have been concerned that analysis of the results is not systematic, that results are not replicable, and that the bases for conclusions are not transparent. To address some of those concerns, in this study the cognitive interviews were structured so that interviewers gathered information specifically about whethe…
Writing Effective Questions
The purpose of this chapter is to lay out the principles for designing survey questions that will provide reliable and valid estimates of what they are designed to measure. The chapter is organized around the four essential steps that respondents must take in order to provide an answer to a question: 1) understand what is being asked; 2) recall or otherwise obtain the information needed to answer the question; 3) put the information into the form…
The role of perceived benefits and costs in patients’ medical decisions
Background Many decisions can be understood in terms of actors’ valuations of benefits and costs. The article investigates whether this is also true of patient medical decision making. It aims to investigate (i) the importance patients attach to various reasons for and against nine medical decisions; (ii) how well the importance attached to benefits and costs predicts action or inaction; and (iii) how such valuations are related to decision confi…
The Problem with Survey Research
Cognitive and Field Testing of a New Set of Medication Adherence Self-Report Items for HIV Care
We conducted four rounds of cognitive testing of self-report items that included 66 sociodemographically diverse participants, then field tested the three best items from the cognitive testing in a clinic waiting room (N = 351) and in an online social networking site for men who have sex with men (N = 6,485). As part of the online survey we conducted a randomized assessment of two versions of the adherence questionnaire-one which asked about adhe…
Do Characteristics of Hipaa Consent Forms Affect the Response Rate
OBJECTIVE: Under the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule, researchers are required to obtain written authorization from patients to gain access to protected health information. The purpose of this research was to examine how the characteristics of authorization forms used by hospitals affect the likelihood of consent. METHOD: This work reports on a recent telephone survey (administered January to August 2004) of p…
Development and validation of a new health-related quality of life instrument for patients with sinusitis
Reducing Interviewer‐Related Error Through Interviewer Training, Supervision, and Other Means
This chapter contains sections titled: Overview of Interviewer-Related Error Detecting Interviewer-Related Error Strategies for Reducing Interviewe-Rrelated Error Conclusion
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Using Telephone Interviews to Reduce Nonresponse Bias to Mail Surveys of Health Plan Members
OBJECTIVE: To assess the nonresponse bias associated with mail-survey returns and the potential for telephone interviews with nonrespondents to reduce that bias. METHODS: A mail survey about health care experiences was conducted with samples of 800 members in each of four health plans. Subsequent attempts were made to interview nonrespondents by telephone. RESULTS: Response rates for the mail surveys averaged 46%; the telephone effort raised the …
Respondent Selection by Mail
OBJECTIVES: This study was done to assess the feasibility of respondent selection by mail to obtain random samples of both child and adult enrollees of health plans when only subscriber contact information is available. METHODS: The subjects were enrollees of health plans covered under the policies of employees of the State of Washington. Subscribers were eligible for inclusion in the study samples if they had been enrolled for at least 6 months …
Comparing Telephone and Mail Responses to the CAHPSTM Survey Instrument
OBJECTIVES: The Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS) survey is designed to collect member experiences with getting medical care. The objective was to evaluate the comparability of answers to CAHPS questions when data are collected by mail and by telephone interview. METHODS: Two studies comparing phone and mail responses used a pretest instrument with parallel samples drawn from Medicaid beneficiaries in California (n = 217 telephone, 97 m…
The Impact of Having Parents Report About Both Their Own and Their Children's Experiences With Health Insurance Plans
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine whether parents rate their children's care differently when they also rate their own care than when they do not. METHODS: Subjects were employees of Washington State who had been enrolled in a health plan for at least 6 months and who had at least one covered child. Subjects were randomly assigned to four study groups that were surveyed using different protocols. To assess the stability of respon…
The Use of Cognitive Testing to Develop and Evaluate CAHPSTM 1.0 Core Survey Items
OBJECTIVES: The main goal of the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) is to develop an integrated set of tested, standardized surveys to obtain meaningful information from health plan enrollees about their experiences. The CAHPS project benefits from the complementary strengths of psychometric and cognitive testing. METHODS: The CAHPS team conducted 150 cognitive interviews across three organizations in different geographic location…
Mode Effects in a Survey of Medicare Prostate Surgery Patients
Journal Article Mode Effects in a Survey of Medicare Prostate Surgery Patients Get access FLOYD JACKSON FOWLER, FLOYD JACKSON FOWLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JR., JR. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANTHONY M. ROMAN, ANTHONY M. ROMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ZHU XIAO DI ZHU XIAO DI Search for other works by this…
The Boston Aids Survival Score (Bass)
OBJECTIVES: This study developed a new acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) severity system by including diagnostic, physiological, functional, and sociodemographic factors predictive of survival. METHODS: Three-hundred five persons with AIDS in Boston were interviewed; their medical records were reviewed and vital status ascertained. RESULTS: Overall median (+/- SD) survival for the cohort from the first interview until death was 560 +/- 14…
Improving Survey Questions
Questions as Measures An Overview Designing Questions to Gather Factual Data Questions to Measure Subjective States Some General Rules for Designing Good Survey Instruments Presurvey Evaluation of Questions Assessing the Validity of Survey Questions Question Design and Evaluation Issues in Perspective
The Effect of a Shared Decisionmaking Program on Rates of Surgery for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Pilot Results
Wagner, Edward H. MD, MPH; Barrett, Paul MD, MSPH; Barry, Michael J. MD; Barlow, William PhD; Fowler, Floyd J. Jr. PhD Author Information
Patient Reactions to a Program Designed to Facilitate Patient Participation in Treatment Decisions for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Patients often want considerable information about their conditions, and enhanced patient participation might reduce unwanted practice variation and improve medical decisions. The authors assessed how men with benign prostatic hyperplasia reacted to an education program designed to facilitate participation in decisionmaking, and how strongly ratings of their symptom state and the prospect of complications predicted their treatment choice. A prosp…
Methodological Issues in Measuring Patient-Reported Outcomes
The primary goal of the Inter-PORT work group on Outcomes Assessment is to foster methodological knowledge about the implications of various measure and design decisions for studies of the outcomes of treatment. A number of key methodological issues currently are unresolved and are in need of further study. These include: 1) the best questions to ask to assess how patients are affected by their treatments; 2) the comparative advantages of various…
How Unclear Terms Affect Survey Data
Although writing clear questions is accepted as a general goal in surveys, procedures to ensure that each key term is consistently understood are not routine. Researchers who do not adequately test respondent understanding of questions must assume that ambiguity will not have a large or systematic effect on their results. Seven questions that were drawn from questions used in national health surveys were subjected to special pretest procedures an…
Comparison of a Self-Enumerative Procedure and a Personal Interview
Journal Article COMPARISON OF A SELF-ENUMERATIVE PROCEDURE AND A PERSONAL INTERVIEW: A VALIDITY STUDY Get access CHARLES F. CANNELL, CHARLES F. CANNELL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar FLOYD J. FOWLER FLOYD J. FOWLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 2, SUMMER 1963, Pages 250–264, https://doi.org/10.1086/267165 Published: 01 J…
Mode Effects in a Survey of Medicare Prostate Surgery Patients
Journal Article Mode Effects in a Survey of Medicare Prostate Surgery Patients Get access FLOYD JACKSON FOWLER, FLOYD JACKSON FOWLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JR., JR. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANTHONY M. ROMAN, ANTHONY M. ROMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ZHU XIAO DI ZHU XIAO DI Search for other works by this…
The Role of Social Norms and Leadership in Risk-Taking
The Boston Aids Survival Score (Bass)
OBJECTIVES: This study developed a new acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) severity system by including diagnostic, physiological, functional, and sociodemographic factors predictive of survival. METHODS: Three-hundred five persons with AIDS in Boston were interviewed; their medical records were reviewed and vital status ascertained. RESULTS: Overall median (+/- SD) survival for the cohort from the first interview until death was 560 +/- 14…
A Note on Interviewer Effect in Self-Enumerative Procedures
Most researchers are aware of the possibility of interviewer bias in personal interviews. In contrast, it is commonly assumed that data from self-enumerative procedures are free of such effects. Information collected in a study of the accuracy with which hospitalizations are reported, however, has led us to question the validity of this assumption. A sample of hospital records was selected, consisting of about 800 persons who had been hosptialize…
Comparison of a Self-Enumerative Procedure and a Personal Interview
Journal Article COMPARISON OF A SELF-ENUMERATIVE PROCEDURE AND A PERSONAL INTERVIEW: A VALIDITY STUDY Get access CHARLES F. CANNELL, CHARLES F. CANNELL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar FLOYD J. FOWLER FLOYD J. FOWLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 2, SUMMER 1963, Pages 250–264, https://doi.org/10.1086/267165 Published: 01 J…
A Note on Interviewer Effect in Self-Enumerative Procedures
Most researchers are aware of the possibility of interviewer bias in personal interviews. In contrast, it is commonly assumed that data from self-enumerative procedures are free of such effects. Information collected in a study of the accuracy with which hospitalizations are reported, however, has led us to question the validity of this assumption. A sample of hospital records was selected, consisting of about 800 persons who had been hosptialize…
The Role of Social Norms and Leadership in Risk-Taking
Enforcing the Gambling Laws
A great deal of controversy surrounds the writing and enforcement of antigambling laws. In large part, this is due to a lack of consensus among citizens, police departments, and prosecutors in defining the objectives of antigambling laws and the methods of enforcing them. It is suggested that since standards of appropriate behavior vary from place to place, the wishes of the local citizens should be the primary guide in determining enforcement ef…
Standardized Survey Interviewing
Standardized Survey Interviewing
What is a Standardized Survey Interview? What is Interviewer-related Error? Standardized Interviewing Techniques Establishing the Context for the Standardized Interview The Role of Question Design in the Standardized Interview Interviewer Selection and Interviewer-Related Error Training Interviewers Interviewer Supervision How to Reduce Interviewer-Related Error in Surveys
Some Methodological Lessons for Surveys of Persons With Aids
Fowler, Floyd J. Jr. PhD; Massagli, Michael P. PhD; Weissman, Joel PhD; Seage, George R. III DSc; Cleary, Paul D. PhD; Epstein, Arnold MD Author Information
How Unclear Terms Affect Survey Data
Although writing clear questions is accepted as a general goal in surveys, procedures to ensure that each key term is consistently understood are not routine. Researchers who do not adequately test respondent understanding of questions must assume that ambiguity will not have a large or systematic effect on their results. Seven questions that were drawn from questions used in national health surveys were subjected to special pretest procedures an…
Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Assessing health-related quality of life in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is extremely important, but most available scales are too long, contain items that are not relevant for such persons, or do not assess important signs and symptoms of HIV infection. This study presents a new set of scales for assessing the symptoms and functioning of persons infected with HIV and reports data on their reliability and validity coll…
Methodological Issues in Measuring Patient-Reported Outcomes
The primary goal of the Inter-PORT work group on Outcomes Assessment is to foster methodological knowledge about the implications of various measure and design decisions for studies of the outcomes of treatment. A number of key methodological issues currently are unresolved and are in need of further study. These include: 1) the best questions to ask to assess how patients are affected by their treatments; 2) the comparative advantages of various…
Measuring Public Priorities for Insurable Health Care
The goal of this research was to develop and evaluate a way to measure the value people place on various medical services in their decisions about what health insurance should cover. A vignette approach to measuring consumer values was developed. People were asked to assign priority and desire to have insurance cover 64 different services. A national probability sample of 206 adults was interviewed by telephone. Their ratings were compared with t…
Improving Survey Questions
Questions as Measures An Overview Designing Questions to Gather Factual Data Questions to Measure Subjective States Some General Rules for Designing Good Survey Instruments Presurvey Evaluation of Questions Assessing the Validity of Survey Questions Question Design and Evaluation Issues in Perspective
The Effect of a Shared Decisionmaking Program on Rates of Surgery for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Pilot Results
Wagner, Edward H. MD, MPH; Barrett, Paul MD, MSPH; Barry, Michael J. MD; Barlow, William PhD; Fowler, Floyd J. Jr. PhD Author Information
Patient Reactions to a Program Designed to Facilitate Patient Participation in Treatment Decisions for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Patients often want considerable information about their conditions, and enhanced patient participation might reduce unwanted practice variation and improve medical decisions. The authors assessed how men with benign prostatic hyperplasia reacted to an education program designed to facilitate participation in decisionmaking, and how strongly ratings of their symptom state and the prospect of complications predicted their treatment choice. A prosp…
The Boston Aids Survival Score (Bass)
OBJECTIVES: This study developed a new acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) severity system by including diagnostic, physiological, functional, and sociodemographic factors predictive of survival. METHODS: Three-hundred five persons with AIDS in Boston were interviewed; their medical records were reviewed and vital status ascertained. RESULTS: Overall median (+/- SD) survival for the cohort from the first interview until death was 560 +/- 14…
Mode Effects in a Survey of Medicare Prostate Surgery Patients
Journal Article Mode Effects in a Survey of Medicare Prostate Surgery Patients Get access FLOYD JACKSON FOWLER, FLOYD JACKSON FOWLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JR., JR. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANTHONY M. ROMAN, ANTHONY M. ROMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ZHU XIAO DI ZHU XIAO DI Search for other works by this…
Respondent Selection by Mail
OBJECTIVES: This study was done to assess the feasibility of respondent selection by mail to obtain random samples of both child and adult enrollees of health plans when only subscriber contact information is available. METHODS: The subjects were enrollees of health plans covered under the policies of employees of the State of Washington. Subscribers were eligible for inclusion in the study samples if they had been enrolled for at least 6 months …
Comparing Telephone and Mail Responses to the CAHPSTM Survey Instrument
OBJECTIVES: The Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS) survey is designed to collect member experiences with getting medical care. The objective was to evaluate the comparability of answers to CAHPS questions when data are collected by mail and by telephone interview. METHODS: Two studies comparing phone and mail responses used a pretest instrument with parallel samples drawn from Medicaid beneficiaries in California (n = 217 telephone, 97 m…
The Impact of Having Parents Report About Both Their Own and Their Children's Experiences With Health Insurance Plans
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine whether parents rate their children's care differently when they also rate their own care than when they do not. METHODS: Subjects were employees of Washington State who had been enrolled in a health plan for at least 6 months and who had at least one covered child. Subjects were randomly assigned to four study groups that were surveyed using different protocols. To assess the stability of respon…
The Use of Cognitive Testing to Develop and Evaluate CAHPSTM 1.0 Core Survey Items
OBJECTIVES: The main goal of the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) is to develop an integrated set of tested, standardized surveys to obtain meaningful information from health plan enrollees about their experiences. The CAHPS project benefits from the complementary strengths of psychometric and cognitive testing. METHODS: The CAHPS team conducted 150 cognitive interviews across three organizations in different geographic location…
Using Telephone Interviews to Reduce Nonresponse Bias to Mail Surveys of Health Plan Members
OBJECTIVE: To assess the nonresponse bias associated with mail-survey returns and the potential for telephone interviews with nonrespondents to reduce that bias. METHODS: A mail survey about health care experiences was conducted with samples of 800 members in each of four health plans. Subsequent attempts were made to interview nonrespondents by telephone. RESULTS: Response rates for the mail surveys averaged 46%; the telephone effort raised the …
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Reducing Interviewer‐Related Error Through Interviewer Training, Supervision, and Other Means
This chapter contains sections titled: Overview of Interviewer-Related Error Detecting Interviewer-Related Error Strategies for Reducing Interviewe-Rrelated Error Conclusion
Development and validation of a new health-related quality of life instrument for patients with sinusitis
Do Characteristics of Hipaa Consent Forms Affect the Response Rate
OBJECTIVE: Under the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule, researchers are required to obtain written authorization from patients to gain access to protected health information. The purpose of this research was to examine how the characteristics of authorization forms used by hospitals affect the likelihood of consent. METHOD: This work reports on a recent telephone survey (administered January to August 2004) of p…
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