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Medical Software Reviews, 1/96/Vol.5/No.1:4-6. (click here for full text of review)

Nelson EC, Wasson JH. Dartmouth COOP Functional Health Assessment Charts: Brief Measures for Clinical Practice. In Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomic in Clinical Trials. Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia, 1996;161-169.

• Summarizes more than a decade of work designing and validating these simple assessment tools which are available in 20 languages for adolescent, adult and geriatric populations. Documents translation to SF 36 (MOS 36) measures.

Retig RA, Sadler JH, Meyer KB et. al. Assessing Health and Quality of Life Outcomes in Dialysis. AJKD 1997;30(1):143-155.

Wasson JF, Nelson G et. al. A controlled trial to improve geriatric care in primary care practices. JAGS 1997;S55.

• The prelimnary results of a controlled trial showing that a standard, easy-to-implement quality improvement strategy for 1651 elderly patients of primary care physicians will improve a broad range of outcomes.

Wasson JH, Jette AM, Johnson DJ, Mohr JJ, Nelson EC. A replicable and customizable approach to improve ambulatory care and research. J Ambulatory Care Manage 1997;20(1):17-27.

• Describes design, theory and sample results of the Dartmouth COOP System.

Wasson JH, Kairys SW, Nelson EC, et al. Adolescent health and social problems. Arch Fam Med 1995;4:51-56.

• Describes value of standard assessment, immediate feedback and health education for adolescents in the school.

Full texts are available on request.