Serious Illness Survey for Community-Based Care
The Serious Illness Survey for Community-Based Care is available in full and abridged versions. The survey materials are available in English and Spanish.
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Marc N. Elliott is a senior principal researcher at RAND and holds its Distinguished Chair in Statistics. His areas of interest include quality measurement, Medicare, health care experiences, survey sampling, experimental design, causal inference, and case-mix adjustment in U.S. and UK applications. He has developed Bayesian methods of estimating patient characteristics using name and address information. Elliott led HHS work developing novel, cost-effective sampling and analytic methods to improve national health estimates for small groups.
Since 2006, he has led the CMS Medicare CAHPS® (Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems) Analysis project, assessing patient experiences for 400,000 surveyed beneficiaries annually. Since 2012, he has been the RAND co-PI of AHRQ’s CAHPS project and was RAND’s lead statistician on that project 1996–2012. Elliott is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the first recipient of its Mid-Career Award (Health Policy Section). He has published more than 490 peer-reviewed articles (H-index=106). In 2014, Elliott was recognized by Thomson Reuters as one of the Top 1% of Cited Scientists 2002–2012. In 2023, Elliott was named one of the world’s 100 most-cited social scientists by Research.com. In 2025, Elliott was ranked #1 in the World in Patient Experience by ScholarGPS. He holds a Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University.
Education
Ph.D. in statistics, Rice University; M.A. in statistics, Rice University; B.A. in statistics, Rice University; B.A. in psychology, Rice University
Selected Work
- Elliott MN, Brown JA, et al., "Survey Protocols, Response Rates, and Representation of Underserved Patients," JAMA Health Forum, 5(1), 2024
- Elliott MN, Beckett MK, et al., "Changes in Patient Experiences of Hospital Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic," JAMA Health Forum, 4(8), 2023
- Elliott MN, Beckett MK, Cohea CW, Lehrman WG, Russ C, Cleary PD, Giordano LA, Goldstein E, Saliba D, "The Hospital Care Experiences of Older Patients Compared to Younger Patients," Journal of the American Gerontological Society, 70(12), 2022
- Elliott MN, Adams JL, Klein DJ, Haviland AM, Beckett MK, Hays RD, Gaillot S, Edwards CA, Dembosky JW, Schneider EC, "Patient-Reported Care Coordination is Associated with Better Performance on Clinical Care Measures," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36(12), 2021
- Elliott MN, Klein DJ, et al., "Using Predicted Spanish Preference to Target Bilingual Mailings in a Mail Survey with Telephone Follow-up," Health Services Research, 2018
- Elliott MN, Landon B, et al., "Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Enrollees Report Less Positive Experiences Than Their Medicare Advantage Counterparts," Health Affairs, 35(3), 2016
- Elliott MN, Beckett MK, Lehrman WG, Cleary PD, Cohea C, Giordano LA, Goldstein E, Damberg C, "Understanding The Role Medicare's Patient Experience Points System Plays In Hospital Reimbursement," Heath Affairs, 35(9), 2016
- Elliott MN, Finch BK, et al., "Sample Designs for Measuring the Health of Small Racial Ethnic Subgroups," Statistics in Medicine, 27(20), 2008