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Health Policy Statistics
Packed JSM Program Planned
Student Paper
Award Winners
T
he Section on Health Policy Challenges in Applying Regression
Statistics is pleased to announce Methods to Preference-Scored Indexes
its program for the Joint of HRQoL, led by Mari Palta of the
Statistical Meetings. We have a packed University of Wisconsin-Madison
The chosen papers exemplify inno-
program that displays the range of top-
August 3, 7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
vative and creative applications of
ics associated with health policy research
statistical analysis to address press-
In health services research, preference-
and applications. This year, HPSS is the
ing issues in health policy.
scored indexes of health-related quality
primary sponsor for three invited ses-
of life (HRQoL) are used to calculate
sions, four topic-contributed sessions,
Sean Devlin, University of
QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years) in
and two contributed sessions, in addi-
Washington
cost effectiveness analysis and simply as
tion to roundtables with coffee and
measures of subjective health. Scores are
“Identification of Ovarian lunch and a speaker with lunch. These
constructed so 0 is equivalent to death
Cancer Symptoms in Health
can be identified in the JSM online pro-
and 1 to full health. The statistical analy-
Insurance Claims Data”
gram at www.amstat.org/meetings/
sis of these indexes presents challenges
jsm/2009/onlineprogram by selecting
Sandrah Eckel, The Johns
due to their limited range, and as many
“Section on Health Policy Statistics” as
Hopkins University
people score close to 1 in general popula-
the sponsor.
tion studies. We will discuss the appro-
“Surrogate Screening Models for The HPSS student awards session
priateness of regression methods often
Determining Low Physical Activity will be held on August 3 at 10:30 a.m.
used in the analysis of these indexes and
in the Cardiovascular Health Study” The section business meeting and mixer
the interpretation of their results. In par-
will also be held on August 3, but from
Carrie Hosman, University of
ticular, we will consider the interpreta-
5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at RFD (a short
Michigan
tion of regression coefficients obtained
stroll from the convention center).
“Sensitivity Analyses for Omitted
by methods that incorporate censoring
HPSS members, organizers, speakers,
or two-part distributions to deal with the
Variable Bias in Multiple discussants, and friends are invited.
limited range. We will also discuss the
Regression in a Study of Right-
Heart Catheterization”
Speaker Luncheon and
application of psychometric latent vari-
Roundtables
able methods to preference measures.
Jessica Myers, The Johns
A large part of our program takes place
Hopkins University
Predicting Health Care Costs of
over food. Our speaker with lunch session
“Learning from Near Misses
Individual Patients, led by Xiao-Hua
is the social high point for HPSS. (You
in Medication Errors: A
(Andrew) Zhou of the University of
can check out the menu in the registration
Bayesian Approach”
Washington
book; vegetarian options are available.)
August 3, 12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Rui Wang, Harvard University
Roundtables with lunch or breakfast are a
great way to learn about new topics while
Accurate prediction of health care costs
“Nonparametric Inference
meeting other section members with sim-
of patients is important for risk-adjusted
Procedure for Percentiles of the
ilar interests. Register before the meeting
physician payments and disease manage-
Random Effects Distribution
or soon after arrival. Tickets must be pur-
ment of high-cost patients. However,
in Meta-Analysis”
chased at least 24 hours before the event,
building a good prediction model is hin-
and luncheons do sell out. Roundtables
dered by special distributional features
The winners will present their
with coffee cost $15 each; roundtables
of health care costs, including a highly
papers during a JSM session on
with lunch and speakers with lunch ses-
skewed distribution, excess zero values,
August 3 from 10:30 a.m. – 12:20
sions cost $40 each.
and heteroscedasticity. Much research
p.m. The awards presentation
has been done to develop new statistical
will take place during the
methods for addressing these special dis-
HPSS mixer on August 3
tributional features in predicting health
from 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
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