Epidemiologic Methods in Health Services Research

Harvard HSPH

This course is designed to introduce students to the application of standard and advanced epidemiologic methods to health services research (HSR). Students will learn to recognize the principles of epidemiology in HSR and applications in comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research, and understand the terminology and methods specific to the field. Threats to validity, including confounding and selection bias, and methods for their control will be discussed in a…