Secondary Analysis Large Datasets in Health-Related Studies: Research Design, Management &…

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This course will provide the student with expertise in locating, evaluating, obtaining and utilizing large secondary datasets (i.e., electronic health data), useful for health care related studies. Confidentiality requirements, ethical issues and development of data use agreements to facilitate access while protecting privacy will be reviewed. The student will gain experience in hands on use of a variety of data sets to answer specific questions and to inform population health problem definition and to design research studies that incorporate the strengths of chosen datasets while minimizing data limitations. Recommended pre-requisite: completion of graduate statistics course and graduate research course. Others with strong quantitative backgrounds by permission of instructor.