Evaluating Survey Quality in Health Services Research: A Decision Framework for Assessing Nonresponse Bias

Overview: Appropriate strategies for assessing nonresponse bias are important to understand in order to help interpret the quality of survey data. While response rates are a standard, reported measure in the literature, authors and funding agencies should regularly report the potential effects of nonresponse bias both before and after survey administration. This webinar will provide a definition of nonresponse bias and its causes, and work through a decision framework that outlines six strategies for assessing nonresponse bias. A description of the advantages and disadvantages of specific strategies for assessing nonresponse will be covered.

The HSR Methods Corner articles aim to improve the practice of health services research by presenting discussions of analytic methods or applications that are often implemented inconsistently across the field. Dr. Halbesleben's article was published in the December issue of HSR.

Faculty: Jonathon Halbesleben, HealthSouth Chair of Health Care Management and Associate Professor in the Department of Management & Marketing in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Alabama.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the primary contributors to nonresponse bias.
• Understand six methods for assessing nonresponse bias, including the circumstances under which each is applicable to their data.
• Describe the advantages and disadvantages of six methods for assessing nonresponse bias.

Course Level: 101 (Introductory)

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Faculty Bio:

Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben is the HealthSouth Chair of Health Care Management and Associate Professor in the Department of Management & Marketing in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Oklahoma. His research concerning employee well-being and patient safety has been published in the Health Services Research, Medical Care, Medical Care Research & Review, Health Care Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management, among others. He is editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and series co-editor for Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being. He serves on the editorial boards of Health Care Management Review, Advances in Health Care Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior.

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