Deltaquest Foundation

DeltaQuest Foundation, Inc., is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) outcome research organization based in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1999, its mission is to implement and facilitate innovative quality-of-life (QOL) research on medically ill patient populations. Our activities include international grant- and contract-funded quality-of-life res... earch on chronic and terminal diseases. We work actively with clinicians and organizations related to health care to facilitate evidence-based medicine using patient-reported outcome data. Using self-report tools in combination with clinician-reported and other objective indices, our research program evaluates the impact of medical treatments on individuals' quality of life. We also develop and disseminate our own patient-reported outcome tools of functional health, psychosocial role performance, and existential well-being that were developed using state-of-the-art measurement science. Employing cross-discipline statistical methodology from the social sciences, psychometrics, biostatistics, epidemiology and physics, we apply state-of-the-art analytic methods for evaluating the effects of medical treatments, behavioral, psychosocial, and socio-demographic factors on health. DeltaQuest Foundation has a Scientific Advisory Board of experts in fields related to quality-of-life research. These colleagues provide advice and assistance when needed for scientific issues that arise in funded research. Our Scientific Advisory Board is comprised of: Melanie Merriman, Ph.D., M.B.A., Bruce Rapkin, Ph.D., and Professor Mirjam A. G. Sprangers. Its Board of Directors includes experts from fields related to organizational governance. Our Secretary, Eric Amundsen, J.D., is an intellectual property lawyer with a background in engineering. Our Treasurer, Alan Lisak, has two decades' experience overseeing the financial operations of a large, non-for-profit research organization focused on national and international cancer clinical trials. Our Conflict of Interest Officer, Don Sackman, ...Read More