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HEALTH CARE COST, QUALITY AND OUTCOMES: ISPOR BOOK OF TERMS
This ISPOR publication includes over 100 monographs covering over 400 terms used in health care delivery, management, and regulation, as well as health care outcomes research including clinical, economic, and quality-of-life research terms. |
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ISPOR Taxonomy of Patient Registries: Classification, Characteristics and Terms
The Patient Registry Taxonomy describes characteristics & classification of registries and terms used in the design, development, implementation of registries and terms used in the analysis, reporting & publishing of registry data. Each term will include a brief definition, a broader explanation, the associated values & uses, and conclude with a discussion of issues or conflicts related to the term. The target audience is health care professionals, students and decision-makers, as well as outcomes research practioners.
Publication expected Spring 2011 |
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Therapeutic and Diagnostic Devices Outcomes Research
(in progress)
The book, Therapeutic and Diagnostic Devices Outcomes Research , provides information on conducting clinical, economic, and patient-reported outcomes research for medical devices and diagnostics. This book is a outcomes research primer for those in the medical device and diagnostics research and development field, unfamiliar with conducting outcomes research, and provides information about unique features of medical device and diagnostics versus other health care technology for outcomes researchers more familiar with drug outcomes research.
Publication is expected Winter 2010 |
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Reliability and Validity of Data for OUTCOMES Research & Disease and Health Management PROGRAMS
This handbook for practioners, payers, decision-makers and students provides an overview of the sources of data for conducting ‘real world’ outcomes research, how to assess the reliability & validity of these data, and approaches for experimental and retrospective research designs. This book is a guide on how to evaluate claims & medication databases, electronic medical records & medical charts, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) & other self-reported data, alternative population-based data sources. A chapter on the adaptation of foreign data for local analysis, data transferability, and the ISPOR International Digest of Databases conclude the book.
Publication is expected Winter 2010. |
