Health Policy Statistics
Packed JSM Program Announced
T
he Section on Health Policy
Tuesday, August 4 Topic-Contributed Sessions
Statistics is pleased to announce
Profiling Health Care Providers: The annual student paper award ses-
its program for the Joint Statistical
Emerging Issues, Statistical Methods, sion is a terrific opportunity to learn
Meetings. We have a packed program
and Policy Implications about new work by young researchers
that displays the range of topics associat-
Organizer: Yulei He of Harvard entering our field. Topics of this year’s
ed with health policy research and appli-
Medical School winners include a Bayesian approach
cations. This year, HPSS is the primary
Discussant: Shaheen Halim of for learning from near misses in medi-
sponsor for three invited sessions, four
the Centers for Medicare and cation errors (Jessica Myers, The Johns
topic-contributed sessions, and two con-
Medicaid Services Hopkins University), sensitivity analy-
tributed sessions, in addition to round-
ses for omitted variable bias (Carrie
tables with coffee and lunch and a speak-
Hospital Report Card: Toward Hosman, University of Michigan), sur-
er luncheon. These can be identified in
Optimal Statistical Decisions, featur- rogate screening models for low physi-
the JSM online program at www.amstat.
ing Peter Austin of the Institute of cal activity (Sandrah Eckel, The Johns
org/meetings/jsm/2009/onlineprogram by
Clinical Evaluation Sciences Hopkins University), nonparametric
selecting “Section on Health Policy
inference for percentiles of the random
Statistics” as the sponsor.
Evaluating Composite Quality effects distribution in meta-analysis (Rui
The HPSS student awards session
Measures, featuring Mary Beth Wang, Harvard University), and identi-
will be held Monday, August 3, at 10:30
Landrum of Harvard Medical School fication of ovarian cancer symptoms
a.m. The section business meeting and
in health insurance claims data (Sean
mixer also will be held Monday, but
Performance of Confidence Devlin, University of Washington).
from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at RFD (a
Intervals for the Ratio of Observed
short stroll from the convention center).
to Expected Numbers of an Event,
Sunday, August 2
HPSS members, organizers, speakers,
featuring Sean O’Brien of Duke
Data Confidentiality: Do We Really
discussants, and friends are invited.
University
Want to Disturb a Sleeping Bear?
Invited Sessions
Organizer: Ofer Harel of the University
Thursday, August 6
of Connecticut
Monday, August 3
Using National Center for Health Discussant: Rob Aseltine of the
Advancing Health Outcomes
Statistics Data to Study Access to University of Connecticut
Measurement: The NIH Patient-
Health Care Health Center
Reported Outcomes Measurement
Organizer: Jane Gentleman of NCHS
Information System (PROMIS)
Bayesian Multiscale Multiple
Organizer: Bryce Reeve of NCI
Using the National Health Interview Imputation with Implications to
Discussant: Steven Clauser of NCI
Survey to Monitor Health Insurance Data Confidentiality, featuring
and Access to Care, featuring Robin Scott Holan of the University of
Advancing Health Outcomes
Cohen of NCHS Missouri-Columbia
Measurement: The NIH Patient-
Reported Outcomes Measurement
Access to Care and Objective Summary of Methods and
Information System (PROMIS),
Measures of Health: Results from Preliminary Assessment of the SIPP
featuring Bryce Reeve of NCI
the National Health and Nutrition Synthetic Beta, Version 5.0, featur-
Examination Survey, featuring ing Gary Benedetto of the U.S.
Challenges and Advantages for
Vicki Burt of NCHS Census Bureau
PROMIS Instruments for Clinical
Studies, featuring Dennis Revicki of
Using National Center for Health Responsible Data Releases, featur-
United BioSource Corporation
Statistics Data to Study Access to ing Sanguthevar Rajasekaran of the
Health Care, featuring Rosa Avila University of Connecticut
Psychometric Evaluation of
of NCHS
PROMIS: IRT Calibration, DIF,
Examining the Robustness of Fully
Scaling, and Validity, featuring
Using the National Health Care Synthetic Data Techniques for Data
Wen-Huang Chen of United
Surveys to Monitor Use and Access with Binary Variables, featuring
BioSource Corporation
to Health Care, featuring Nancy Gregory Matthews of the University
Sonnenfeld of NCHS of Connecticut
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