Exam-setters need to know that their assessments are identifying the top candidates fairly.
Healthcare providers want to examine, enhance and showcase their outcomes.
Businesses have to understand their customers’ preferences to excel in competitive markets.
Psychometric science can deliver these insights, but must often come in the form of specialist and external expertise. We offer consultancy to industry partners either directly or via Oxford University Innovations.
This might take the form of:
Research design
Evidence review and data synthesis
Psychometric analyses for the development, validation and refinement of patient-reported outcome measures, surveys and educational assessments
Registry development and maintenance
Data analysis with a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques
Generating interactive dashboards and reports
Scientific writing, marketing and research dissemination
Email us for a free and confidential consultation to discuss your consultancy needs.
Our Work
Computerised adaptive testing of the Oxford Hip, Knee, Shoulder and Elbow Scores
OBERD are a market-leading provider of patient-reported outcome measurement systems in the USA. Their platforms have been used to assess and enhance care quality with over 5 million patients to date.
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are questionnaires that can drive patient-centred and value-based care, but they can also be burdensome to patients and providers. This limits their uptake in research and clinical practice.
Computerised adaptive testing (CAT) uses intelligent algorithms to make these questionnaires shorter and more personalised to the patients completing them, improving their uptake.
Leveraging our psychometric expertise and professional networks, we worked with OBERD and the developers of the Oxford Hip, Knee, Shoulder and Elbow Scores - some of the most well-adopted PROMs in surgery - to develop CAT versions of these questionnaires. Through CAT, we were able to shorten the questionnaires considerably, without sacrificing the accuracy or validity of scores. With these algorithms, OBERD now offer a state-of-the-art solution for low-burden, personalised, patient-reported outcome measurement in orthopaedic surgery.
Read our paper on the Oxford Scores, published in the Bone and Joint Journal Open, here.