Data access has been approved for a project to evaluate a pharmacist-initiated adherence intervention effort for asthma patients that involves education, monthly text messages and pharmacist follow-up of non-adherent patients.
Despite not being collected for research purposes, administrative health data (e.g., outpatient physician billings, hospitalizations, and prescription drug data) are increasingly being used in epidemiological analyses.
This webinar will discuss the options for including continuous covariates in a regression model, and in particular, methods for modeling non-linear relationships. In his book, 'Clinical Prediction Models,' Ewout Steyerberg presents a hierarchy of procedures for including a continuous predictor, starting with dichotomizing the variable and moving to modeling the variable using restricted cubi
This webinar-based training event takes place over four sessions:
Tuesday March 31 | Thursday April 2 |
Tuesday April 7 | Thursday April 9th
This webinar-based training series takes place over four sessions:
Session 1 - Wednesday June 17 | Session 2 - Wednesday June 24
Session 3 - Wednesday Jul 8 | Session 4 – Wednesday July 15
This webinar series offered by Population Data BC in partnership with ICES highlighted the value of population-wide administrative data and related advanced analytic methods for health research.
This webinar will focus on learning causal inference approaches in a healthcare data analysis context with a particular focus on explaining the application of propensity score analysis in a real-world data analysis context. The session will outline how these analyses are different than conventional regression methods and will address key assumptions/diagnostics of these models.
"Great instructors with content expertise who are also very accessible for extra support, good class size with diverse classmates, and flexibility that online learning offers."
I was looking for a professional development opportunity to brush up my data analysis skills and further develop them. I found about the program online through my own search. Reviewing the course offerings, I quickly thought the program would be a great fit for me.
COVID-19 (a new corona virus) has topped news headlines since early 2020 when it broke out in Wuhan, China. The outbreak has quickly become an international concern, and on January 30th, 2020 it was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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