Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a relatively common immune mediated disease affecting the brain and spinal cord. It typically attacks people in the prime of their lives and its cause is unknown.
The global coronavirus pandemic has clearly demonstrated the great urgency to collect and use patient data effectively to understand, track and manage the spread of Covid-19. The value of patient data in this pandemic is undeniable, however considerations around how – and by whom - such data should be collected, accessed and used, and for what purposes, remain to be fully debated and resolved.
This webinar will provide an introduction to multistate and microsimulation modeling and describe their usefulness in causal inference and health economics. The presentation will focus on the application of these methods in estimating the burden of COPD in Ontario.
View recorded presentation below.
Data access has been granted for a project which aims to estimate the effects of open enrolment on the outcomes of independent schools.
Data access has been approved for a study to assess the effectiveness of disseminating chest pain clinical guidelines to emergency departments in British Columbia (BC), in an effort to improve diagnoses for chest pain/heart attack patients.
CaraSpace provides a safe, secure place for researchers to store and analyse their data, while ensuring that privacy-sensitive data remains protected.
It is a secure private cloud accessible only via an encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN) through a firewall and use of a YubiKey® for two-factor authentication.
The Secure Research Environment (SRE) is a Population Data BC service for Researchers who access data through PopData. The SRE provides a central location for access to and processing of research data, secure storage and backup of data extracts and free software for data analysis.
University of British Columbia, 201-2206 East Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3
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International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) member
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