Selected Measurement Websites
Measurement Excellence and Training Resource Information Center (METRIC)
http://www.measurementexperts.org
METRIC is a Resource Center within the VA Health Services Research & Development Service. METRIC has been charged with improving the overall measurement quality in VA research.
The site includes a database of instruments that can be searched by name or construct, and includes information on each instrument and links to the instrument when it is available on-line. When multiple instruments are available for a construct, such as social support, it provides information on how frequently each instrument is cited in the literature.
RAND Health Surveys
http://www.rand.org/health/surveys_tools.html
The RAND Health program has produced a number of significant surveys and tools for improving quality of care and evaluating health outcomes during its 35 year history. This website provides a wide range of survey instruments and tools including measures developed to assess the appropriateness of medical treatments, assessing care of vulnerable elders, the CAHPS patient evaluation of care surveys, the SF-36 version 1 and many other health-related quality of life surveys, a homelessness survey, and quality of care assessment tools. Many are available in multiple languages. All of the surveys and tools from RAND Health are available without charge for non-commercial purposes.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/browse/browsemeasures.aspx
A database and web site for information on specific evidence-based health care quality measures and measure sets. NQMC is sponsored by AHRQ to promote widespread access to quality measures by the health care community and other interested individuals. The site includes structured, standardized abstracts (summaries) containing information about measures and their development, a utility for comparing attributes of two or more quality measures in a side-by-side comparison, and links to full-text quality measures (when available) and/or ordering details for the full measure.
HaPI: The Health and Psychosocial Instruments Database
http://www.ovid.com/site/ products/ovidguide/hapidb.htm (for information only)
Contains information about instruments in the health and related sciences, as well as organizational behavior and library and information science. HaPI is available through Ovid Technologies through either individual or institutional subscription, check with your university library.
Anchoring Vignettes Website
http://gking.harvard.edu/vign/
Offers survey researchers, and others, help in addressing two long-standing questions: (1) How can we do survey research if different respondents (perhaps from different cultures, countries, or ethnic groups) understand questions in completely different ways, or if investigators mean one thing and respondents think they mean something else? (2) How can we develop accurate measures of complicated concepts which we can define only by example ("you know it when you see it"), and when attempts to produce more concrete questions tend to be more concrete but no more valid? This site provides a basic overview of anchoring vignettes that can be used to standardize questions across groups, along with links to the supporting literature.
(For a more extensive and less selective listing see http://www.chime.ucla.edu/measurement/webresources.htm)
Last updated June 2006
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