Clinical Database Research Methodology

EPID 5460
Fall term (second half of term)
0.5 CU
Core
Prerequisite
Permission of Instructor, EPID 5100

This course will discuss appropriate selection of healthcare databases for research questions of interest; assessment of drug exposures; validation of health outcomes of interest; and addressing biases, confounding, and missing data in databases. We will also review key aspects of research protocol development for database studies and discuss research grant applications related to these studies.