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Kitty
S.
Chan
,
PhD

Associate Professor
- Adjunct

Departmental Affiliations

Contact Info

3800 Reservoir Road, NW, Gorman #2057
Washington
District of Columbia
20007
US        
410-955-0470

Research Interests

  • measurement
  • psychometrics
  • item response theory
  • health status
  • health-related quality of life
  • health services research
  • child health
  • mental health
Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2001
BA
Cornell University
1991
Overview

My research focuses on measurement issues, particularly the application of psychometric techniques from item response theory for measuring health. Other research interests include child health and mental health.

Honors & Awards

Marilyn Bergner Award in Health Services Research, 1999

Select Publications
  • 1. Chan KS, Fowles JB, Weiner JP (in press). Electronic Health Records and Reliability and Validity of Quality Measures: A Review of the Literature. Medical Care Research and Review.

  • 2. Chan KS, Chen WH, Gan TJ, Hsieh R, Chen C, Lakshminarayanan M, Revicki D (2009). Development and validation of a composite score based on clinically meaningful events for the opioid-related symptom distress scale. Quality of Life Research 18(10):1331.

  • 3. Jensen R, Chan KS, Fowles JF, Weiner JP (2009). Implementing Electronic Health Record-Based Quality Measures for Developmental Screening. Pediatrics 124: e648-e654.

  • 4. Simon AE, Chan KS, Forrest CB (2008) Assessment of children’s health-related quality of life in the United States with a multi-dimensional index. Pediatrics 121: e1-e9

  • 5. Riley AW, Chan KS, Prasad S, Poole L. (2007) A global measure of child health-related quality of life: Reliability and validity of the Child Health and Illness Profile-Child Edition (CHIP-CE) global score. J Medical Economics 10:91-106

Projects
Development of Measures of Coordination Using EHRs