Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Contact Info
Research Interests
- measurement
- psychometrics
- item response theory
- health status
- health-related quality of life
- health services research
- child health
- mental health
Experiences & Accomplishments
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