Hays Lab
Specializing in Healthcare Survey Research
As a Distinguished Professor in the UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Dr. Ronald D. Hays specializes in patient-reported outcomes measurement (PROM) development. He evaluates patient experience with health care and health-related quality of life (QAL).
Dr. Hays has been acknowledged as one of the most highly cited and influential scientific minds by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics since 2015.
In his work, Dr. Hays seeks to enhance understanding and use of high-quality psychometric analyses of patient-reported outcome and health services survey research data. Grant development services and analyses of data are available. He also provides input on survey design and selection of patient-reported outcome measures, analyses to evaluate multi-item scales (classical and item response theory methods), and psychometric computer programming (SAS, STATA, IRTPRO, EQS-IRT, LAVAAN, FlexMIRT).
Please contact him at drhays@ucla.edu to schedule an appointment.