Statistical Analysis of the Electronic Health Record

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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) hold over 50 years of recorded patient information and, with increased adoption and high levels of population coverage, are becoming foci of healthcare data analyses. This course introduces statistical analysis of EHRs. The future of medicine depends on understanding patterns in EHRs. Topics include: preparing data using structured query language (SQL), risk assessment formulating prognosis of patients with multiple morbidities, comparison of means and rates, time to adverse events, analysis of one observation per time period (Tukey chart), causal control charts, regression analyses, matched case control studies, association network, and casual networks.