This is an applied book for health and disease management practitioners, payers, decision-makers and students.  It provides a good overview of the issues, what data sources are available and how to assess their reliability & validity.   It is a ‘playbook’ for the psychometrically correct way to evaluate the following data:  claims & medication databases, electronic medical records & medical charts, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) & other self-reported data, alternative population-based data sources, as well as the statistical adjustments/approaches to take with this data.  A chapter on the adaptation of foreign data for local analysis, data transferability, and the ISPOR International Digest of Databases conclude the book. 

Publication expected in May 2010

For details on these sections: http://www.ispor.org/sigs/HCDdiseaseMgt.asp
Other questions, please email emolsen@ispor.org.