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Maria Orlando Edelen

Maria Orlando Edelen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
6414
World Ranking
5933
National Ranking
2827

Overview

Maria Orlando Edelen is affiliated with the RAND Corporation in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with specific work in subfields including General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pharmacology, and Oncology.

Their work covers several main topics including health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life; musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation; cancer survivorship and care; palliative care and end-of-life issues; health disparities and outcomes; geriatric care and nursing homes; and chronic disease management strategies.

Maria Orlando Edelen has contributed to the academic literature through multiple publications. Some of their recent papers are:

  • Trust in experts, not trust in national leadership, leads to greater uptake of recommended actions during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) published in Risk Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
  • Implementing patient-reported outcomes in routine clinical care for diverse and underrepresented patients in the United States (2022) published in Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
  • Comparing Data Collected on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to National Surveys (2022) published in American Journal of Health Behavior
  • User-centered design and agile development of a novel mobile health application and clinician dashboard to support the collection and reporting of patient-reported outcomes for breast cancer care (2022) published in BMJ Surgery Interventions & Health Technologies
  • A novel Scale to Assess Palliative Care Patients' Experience of Feeling Heard and Understood (2022) published in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Anthony Rodriguez
  • Ron D. Hays
  • Chengbo Zeng
  • Patricia M. Herman
  • Andrea L. Pusic

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in several venues, notably:

  • Quality of Life Research
  • Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Advances in Patient-Reported Outcomes
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Additionally, Maria Orlando Edelen has published books through RAND Corporation eBooks, including:

  • MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development: Summary Report of Alpha Testing (2020)
  • New Patient-Centered Quality Measures for Office-Based Palliative Care (2021)

Best Publications

  • Applying item response theory (IRT) modeling to questionnaire development, evaluation, and refinement

    Maria Orlando Edelen;Bryce B. Reeve

  • MDS 3.0: Brief Interview for Mental Status

    Debra Saliba;Joan Buchanan;Maria Orlando Edelen;Joel Streim

  • The longitudinal association between substance use and delinquency among high-risk youth

    Elizabeth J. D’Amico;Maria Orlando Edelen;Jeremy N.V. Miles;Andrew R. Morral

  • Identification of differential item functioning using item response theory and the likelihood-based model comparison approach. Application to the Mini-Mental State Examination.

    Maria Orlando Orlando Edelen;David Thissen;Jeanne A Teresi;Marjorie Kleinman

  • Using Hierarchical IRT Models to Create Unidimensional Measures From Multidimensional Data

    Brian D. Stucky;Maria Orlando Edelen

  • Nursing home assessment of cognitive impairment: development and testing of a brief instrument of mental status.

    Joshua Chodosh;Maria Orlando Edelen;Joan L. Buchanan;Julia Ann Yosef

  • A Comparison of Interview and Self-Report Methods for the Assessment of Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria.

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Leslie C. Morey;Maria Orlando Edelen;M. Tracie Shea

  • The relationship between sleep disturbance and the course of anxiety disorders in primary care patients.

    Brook A. Marcks;Risa B. Weisberg;Maria Orlando Edelen;Martin B. Keller

  • Personality traits as prospective predictors of suicide attempts

    Shirley Yen;M. T. Shea;C. A. Sanislow;Andrew E. Skodol

  • Testing the PHQ-9 Interview and Observational Versions (PHQ-9 OV) for MDS 3.0

    Debra Saliba;Suzanne DiFilippo;Maria Orlando Edelen;Kurt Kroenke

  • Using Logistic Approximations of Marginal Trace Lines to Develop Short Assessments

    Brian Dale Stucky;David Thissen;Maria Orlando Edelen

  • The association of personality disorders with the prospective 7-year course of anxiety disorders

    E. B. Ansell;A. Pinto;M. O. Edelen;J. C. Markowitz

  • Running Away From Home: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Risk Factors and Young Adult Outcomes

    Joan S. Tucker;Maria Orlando Edelen;Phyllis L. Ellickson;David J. Klein

  • Chronic stroke outcome measures for motor function intervention trials: Expert panel recommendations

    Cheryl Bushnell;Janet Prvu Bettger;Kevin M. Cockroft;Steven C. Cramer

  • Multiple trajectories of physical aggression among adolescent boys and girls

    Steven C. Martino;Phyllis L. Ellickson;David J. Klein;Daniel F. McCaffrey

  • The positive mental health instrument: development and validation of a culturally relevant scale in a multi-ethnic asian population

    Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Mythily Subramaniam;Siow Ann Chong;Edimansyah Abdin

  • Anxiety in middle adulthood: effects of age and time on the 14-year course of panic disorder, social phobia and generalized anxiety disorder.

    H. J. Ramsawh;S. D. Raffa;M. Orlando Edelen;R. Rende

  • Temporal associations of cigarette smoking with social influences, academic performance, and delinquency: a four-wave longitudinal study from ages 13-23.

    Joan S Tucker;José Felipe Martínez;Phyllis L Ellickson;Maria Orlando Edelen

  • Correspondence of Verbal Descriptor and Numeric Rating Scales for Pain Intensity: An Item Response Theory Calibration

    Maria Orlando Edelen;Debra Saliba;Debra Saliba

  • Improvement in borderline personality disorder in relationship to age

    M. Tracie Shea;Maria Orlando Edelen;Anthony Pinto;Shirley Yen

  • Mediation Analysis of a School-Based Drug Prevention Program

    Maria Orlando Edelen;Phyllis L. Ellickson;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Douglas L. Longshore

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan S. Tucker
Joan S. Tucker RAND Corporation
David J. Klein
David J. Klein RAND Corporation
Carlos M. Grilo
Carlos M. Grilo Yale University
Daniel F. McCaffrey
Daniel F. McCaffrey Educational Testing Service
Chloe E. Bird
Chloe E. Bird RAND Corporation
Leslie C. Morey
Leslie C. Morey Texas A&M University
Andrew E. Skodol
Andrew E. Skodol University of Arizona
John C. Markowitz
John C. Markowitz Columbia University
John G. Gunderson
John G. Gunderson Harvard University
Mary C. Zanarini
Mary C. Zanarini Harvard University

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