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Alfredo J. Selim
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 28
Citations - 2365
Alfredo J. Selim is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Ambulatory care. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 28 publications receiving 2089 citations. Previous affiliations of Alfredo J. Selim include Memorial Hospital of South Bend & Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital.
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Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients Served by the Department of Veterans Affairs Results From the Veterans Health Study
Lewis E. Kazis,Donald R. Miller,Jack A. Clark,Katherine M. Skinner,Austin Lee,William H. Rogers,Avron Spiro,Susan M. C. Payne,Graeme Fincke,Alfredo J. Selim,Mark Linzer +10 more
TL;DR: The VA outpatients have substantially worse health status than non-VA populations and the Department of Veterans Affairs should focus on the provision of mental health services for its younger veteran.
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Updated U.S. population standard for the Veterans RAND 12-item Health Survey (VR-12).
Alfredo J. Selim,William Rogers,William Rogers,John A. Fleishman,Shirley Qian,Benjamin G. Fincke,Benjamin G. Fincke,James A. Rothendler,James A. Rothendler,Lewis E. Kazis,Lewis E. Kazis +10 more
TL;DR: Changes in the U.S. population between 1990 and today make the old standard obsolete for the VR-12, so the updated standard developed here is widely available to serve as such a contemporary standard for future applications for health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assessments.
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Patient-reported measures of health: The Veterans Health Study.
Lewis E. Kazis,Donald R. Miller,Donald R. Miller,Katherine M. Skinner,Katherine M. Skinner,Austin Lee,Austin Lee,Xinhua S. Ren,Xinhua S. Ren,Jack A. Clark,Jack A. Clark,William H. Rogers,Avron Spiro,Avron Spiro,Avron Spiro,Alfredo J. Selim,Alfredo J. Selim,Mark Linzer,Susan M. C. Payne,Dorcas Mansell,B. Graeme Fincke,B. Graeme Fincke +21 more
TL;DR: The scope of the VHS resulted in the development of a broad range of patient-focused process and outcome measures, as well as methodologies for assessing large numbers of patients, that have been widely used in the VA outpatient health care system for monitoring health outcomes across the nation.
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Applications of Methodologies of the Veterans Health Study in the VA Healthcare System: Conclusions and Summary
Lewis E. Kazis,Lewis E. Kazis,Donald R. Miller,Donald R. Miller,Katherine M. Skinner,Austin Lee,Austin Lee,Xinhua S. Ren,Xinhua S. Ren,Jack A. Clark,Jack A. Clark,William H. Rogers,Avron Spiro,Avron Spiro,Avron Spiro,Alfredo J. Selim,Alfredo J. Selim,Mark Linzer,Susan M. C. Payne,Dorcas Mansell,B. Graeme Fincke +20 more
TL;DR: The Veterans Health Study had as its overarching goal the development, testing, and application of patient-centered assessments for monitoring patient outcomes in ambulatory care in large integrated care systems such as the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Deriving SF-12v2 physical and mental health summary scores: a comparison of different scoring algorithms
TL;DR: Although the basic structure of the SF-12 is stable, summary scores derived from oblique rotation are preferable and more consistent with changes in individual scales, and on empirical and conceptual grounds, this study suggests using summary scores based on oblique CFA.