Does anyone know of a good basic textbook on measuring health outcomes?

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Robert Boer

Perhaps this ISPOR paper helps?

http://www.ispor.org/clinical-outcomes-assessment-guidelines.pdf

Ronán Michael Conroy

Thank you, Robert, I'm thinking that actually a good collection of papers is probably better than that elusive textbook

Helena A Ferris

'Mastering Public Health' by Lewis, Sheringham, Bernal and Crawford may be useful.

Thank you, Helena. Looks worth checking out.

Muthana A.K. Al-Zobaei Al-Zobae

nice information