16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research

Selected Plenary Slides below.

Thursday, October 29, 2009
9:00 – 10:30am
Plenary Session I:
Patient-reported Outcomes for Adverse Symptom Reporting in Clinical Trials sponsored by the EORTC Quality of Life Group
Chairs: Bryce Reeve, PhD and Jane Scott, PhD

Including the Patient Voice in Drug Safety Reporting
Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, Health Outcomes Group, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Collection of Patient Safety Information in Clinical Trials for Drug and Vaccine Development: An Industry Perspective
Nancy C. Santanello, MD, MS,> Vice President, Head of Epidemiology Department, Merck Research Laboratories

Including the Patient Voice in Regulatory Risk-Benefit Decisions
Laurie B. Burke, RPh, MPH, Director, Study Endpoints and Labeling, OND/CDER/FDA

Friday, October 30, 2009
9:00 – 10:30 am
Plenary Session II:
Using Self-Reported Measures to Assess Population Health: Issues, Instruments and Implications
sponsored by Pfizer
Chairs: Claudia Moy, PhD and Ashley Wilder Smith, PhD
Grand Ballroom C

Issues in Cross-cultural Population Health Research
Prof. Dr. Monika Bullinger, Institut und Poliklinik für Medizinische
Psychologie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin,
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Designing Self-reported Measures for Comparative Research
Janet A. Harkness, PhD, Director, Survey Research and Methodology Program and UNL Gallup Research Center University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, UNL Gallup Research Center

Using Self-reports in the Comparative Measurement of Population Health: Advances and Agendas
Joshua A. Salomon, PhD, Associate Professor of International Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Saturday, October 31, 2009
8:30 – 10:00 am
Plenary Session III
Patient-reported Outcomes to Evaluate the Quality of Health Care Delivery
Chairs: Steve Clauser, PhD and David Close, MD
Grand Ballroom C

Getting to Questions that Only Patients Can Answer
Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, Director, U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Can We Use Patient-reported Outcome Measures to Compare the Quality of Healthcare Providers?
Professor John Browne, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public
Health, University College Cork

Patient-reported Outcome Report Cards: Evaluating Process and Outcome
David Feeny, PhD, The Center for Health Research, Northwest/Hawaii/Southeast, Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region