Health-related
quality of life
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Workshops
in decision making and service improvement
Presented by
Dr Rod
O'Connor
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How people think
We now realise that intuition, emotional feelings, understanding of
others, physical sensations, reasoning, and new ideas, are profoundly interlinked.
This day long workshop explores the lessons, the implications for
how we see ourselves, and how to use this knowledge to make better
decisions.
Not to be missed
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How to develop a valid questionnaire
This hands-on workshop provides both theory and practice in
developing valid questionnaires,
Participants are welcome to bring current questionnaires to be
developed or improved during the workshop
'No amount of statistical manipulation after the fact can
compensate for poorly chosen questions; those that are badly worded, ambiguous,
irrelevant, or even worse not present' (Streiner and Norman, 1995) |
'Measuring patient-centred outcomes'
Measuring Health-related Quality of Life, Health Status, and Patient Satisfaction |
'How to evaluate
a health
care program'
The workshop
trains participants to evaluate and/or develop programs in health,
human services, & aged care |
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Improving Decisions
Rod
O’Connor & Associates or ROA
are
Sydney Australia
consultants specialising in improving decision making in healthcare and
human service industries.
Rod
O'Connor PhD
has been
a
Technical adviser to the World Bank, consultant
in Outcomes Research
and Situational Analysis for Policy for the WHO,
invited rapporteur on
Quality of Life Measurement for the UK Economic & Social Research
Council, and
invited referee for the U.K. National Co-ordinating Centre for
Research Capacity Development.
He has also been a Conjoint
Associate Professor at the School of Public
Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, and member of Brain Sciences UNSW.
Rod has a PhD in cognitive science (Monash University) and training in
health economics (Monash University & University of Melbourne), health
outcomes measurement (Harvard School of Public Health), and modern
measurement methods (University of Illinois at Chicago).
His book ‘Measuring Quality of
Life in Health’ was published by Elsevier/
Churchill Livingstone U.K. in 2004, and is
currently completing a book on 'How people think'.
ROA
apply the methods and insight of cognitive and behavioural science to
develop improved programs and decision systems.
Workshops
are conducted by ROA in areas
critical to service improvement. These are provided directly to
client organisations as well as in association with bodies such as the
Australasian College of Health Service Management
(ACHSM).
Workshops provide training in improving
decision making,
patient-centred outcomes measurement (including HQoL), development and evaluation of programs
(including data linkage),
and questionnaire design.
An
executive advisory service
is
available to anyone who
feels they may benefit from one-to-one guidance
in any of the workshop areas. Please contact Rod O'Connor if you might be interested
in this option.
Over
90 projects in
healthcare development
and
evaluation have been completed by
ROA.
Agencies assisted and examples of projects include the World Health
Organisation (outcomes measurement; policy analysis), The World Bank (quality improvement of healthcare), GlaxoSmithKline
(strategic planning of clinical research),
Commonwealth of Australia (disability
assessment, mental health needs forecasting),
Malaysian Ministry of Health (acute hospital planning),
the Australian Bureau of Statistics
(assessing healthcare needs),
and Canteen (evaluation of psycho-social support needs for adolescents
with cancer).
Performance measures have been constructed in areas as diverse as disability assessment (the
Disability Support Pension for DSS Australia), Aboriginal health
infrastructure funding (for ATSIC and the Commonwealth of Australia),
medication compliance (GSK), and
home-carer burden (SA domicilary care)
ROA
have been active in Australia since 1988,
S.E.Asia 1991, East Asia 1998, South America 2000, the Pacific 2001,
and P.R.China 2006
Activity areas
Click 'Site Contents'
for details
Program Improvement
Cognitive Task Analysis
Team behaviour
Decision Systems
Evidence-based Medicine
Client-valued outcomes
Program Evaluation
Data Linkage
Client QoL and Satisfaction
Health Psychometrics
Program Development
Program
planning
Needs analysis
Demand
forecasting
Mentoring
in project improvement
and development
Research
in socio-behavioural
factors
and decision making
Training
Outcomes
measurement
Program Evaluation, Planning
Naturalistic decision making
Questionnaire Design
Program Improvement
General
Policy development
Data base development
Model building
Experimental design
Data analysis
Contact Details
ABN 73 240 595 586
Sydney Australia
Tel: +61-2-9555 9916
Mob. 0413 60 70 73
roa@RodOConnorAssoc.com
Copyright ©
2003 Rod O'Connor & Associates
All rights reserved.
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