Clinical Database Research Methodology

0.5 Course Units

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. Prerequisite: If course requirement not met, permission of course director required. Prerequisite: EPID 5100 AND EPID 5260 0.5 Course Units