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Kitty S. Chan
Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees
PhD
Departmental Affiliation
Health Policy and Management
Departmental Address
Hampton House
Room 633
Phone: 410-614-4043
Fax: 410-955-0470
Research and Professional Experience

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.

Keywords

measurement, psychometrics, item response theory, health status, health-related quality of life, health services research, child health, mental health

Honors and Awards

Marilyn Bergner Award in Health Services Research, 1999

Selected Publications

1. Weiner JP, Kfuri T, Chan K, Fowles JB (2007) “e-Iatrogenesis”: The most critical unintended consequence of CPOE and other HIT. (J American Medical Informatics Association, accepted for publication).

2. 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, accepted for publication).

3. Chan KS, Wenzel S, Mandell W, Orlando M, Ebener P. (2007) Are prisoner characteristics associated with therapeutic community treatment process? (American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, accepted for publication)

4. Chan KS, Bird CE, Weiss R, Duan N, Meredith LS, Sherbourne CD. (2006) Does patient-provider gender concordance affect mental health care received by primary care patients with major depression? Women’s Health Issues 16:122-132.

5. Schell TL, Chan KS, Morral AR (2006) Predicting DUI recidivism: Personality, attitudinal, and behavioral risk.factors. Drug Alcohol Dependence 82:33-40.

6. Baker DW, Asch SM, Keesey JW, Brown JA, Chan KS, Joyce G, Keeler EB (2005) Differences in education, knowledge, self-management activities, and health outcomes for patients with heart failure cared for under the Chronic Disease Model: The Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 11(6):405-413.

7. Lorenz KA, Ryan GW, Morton SC, Chan KS, Wang S, Shekelle PG (2005) A qualitative examination of primary care providers' and physician managers' uses and views of research evidence. Int J Qual Health Care. 17(5):409-14.

8. Joyce G, Chan KS, Orlando M, and Burnam MA (2005) Mental Health Status and Use of General Medical Services for Persons with human immunodeficiency virus. Medical Care 43:834-839.

9. Schonlau M, Mangione-Smith R, Chan KS, Keesey J, Rosen M, Louis TA, Wu SY, Keeler E (2005) An evaluation of a quality improvement collaborative in asthma care: Does it improve processes and outcomes of care? Annals of Family Medicine 3:200-208.

10. Mangione-Smith R, Schonlau M, Chan KS, Keesey J, Rosen M, Louis TA, Keeler E (2005) Measuring the effectiveness of a collaborative for quality improvement in pediatric asthma care: Does implementing the chronic care model improve processes and outcomes of care? Ambul Pediatr 5:75-82.

11. Baker DW, Brown J, Chan K, Dracup KA, Keeler EB (2005) A telephone survey to measure communication, education, self-management and health status for patients with heart failure: The Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation (ICICE). Journal of Cardiac Failure. 11(1):36-42.

12. Chan KS, Keeler EB, Schonlau M, Rosen M, Mangione-Smith R (2005) How does ethnicity and primary language spoken at home affect management practices and outcomes in children and adolescents with asthma? Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 159(3):283-289.

13. Chan KS, Mangione-Smith R, Burwinkle TM, Rosen M, Varni JW (2005) The PedsQL TM: Reliability and Validity of the Short-Form Generic Core Scales and Asthma Module. Medical Care 43(3):256-265.

14. Chan KS, Morton SC, Shekelle P (2004) Meta-analyses for evidence-based management: How to find them and what to do with them American Journal of Managed Care 10:806-812.

15. Chan KS, Wenzel S, Orlando M, Montagnet C, Mandell W, Becker K, Ebener P (2004) How important are client characteristics to understanding treatment process in the therapeutic community? American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 30(4):867-887.

16. Chan KS, Orlando M, Ghosh-Dastidar B, Duan N, Sherbourne CD (2004) The Interview Mode Effect on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale: An Item Response Theory Analysis. Medical Care 42(3):281-289.

17. Chan KS, Orlando M, Joyce G, Gifford A, Burnam MA, Tucker J, Sherbourne C (2003) Combination Antiretroviral Therapy and Improvements in Mental Health: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of Persons Under Care for HIV in the U.S. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndomes, 33:104-111.

18. Orlando M, Chan KS, Morral AR (2003) Retention of Court-Referred Youths in Residential Treatment Programs: Client Characteristics and Treatment Process Effects. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 29:337-57.

19. Chan KS, Revicki DA (1998) Changes in surrogate laboratory markers, clinical endpoints, and health-related quality of life in patients infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 21:265-281.

20. Kleinman L, Zodet M, Hakim Z, Aledort J, Barker C, Chan K, Krupp L, Revicki D (2000) Psychometric evaluation of the Fatigue Severity Scale for use in Chronic Hepatitis C. Quality of Life Research 9:499-508.

21. Leidy NK, Chan KS, Coughlin C (1998) Is the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire a useful measure for low-income asthmatics? American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 158:1082-1090.

22. Revicki DA, Gold K, Buckman D, Chan K, Kallich JD, Woolley JM (2001) Imputing physical health status scores missing due to mortality: Results of a simulation comparing multiple techniques. Medical Care 39:61-71.

23. Revicki DA, Chan K, Gevirtz F (1998) Discriminant validity of the Medical Outcomes Study cognitive function scale in HIV disease patients. Quality of Life Research, 7:551-559.

24. Revicki DA, Simon GE, Chan K, Katon W, Heiligenstein (1998) Depression, health-related quality of life, and medical cost outcomes of receiving recommended levels of antidepressant treatment. Journal of Family Practice, 47:446-452.

25. Schmier JK, Chan KS, Leidy NK (1998) The impact of asthma on health-related quality of life. Journal of Asthma, 35:585-597.

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