Pharmacoepidemiology: Concepts, Data and Methods

 

Alec Walker, MD, DrPH, FISPE
World Health Information Science Consultants Harvard School of Public Health

Brian D. Bradbury, MA, DSc
Director of Epidemiology, Amgen, Inc.

This course is for the general epidemiologist who wishes to review topics that are particular to pharmacoepidemiology.  The concepts that will be covered during this course include:

  1. Exposure: drugs, devices and biologics and the time-courses of their risks
  2. Bias: confounding by indication
  3. Data: use of insurance claims and electronic medical records
  4. Analysis: propensity scores, instruments, time-dependent analysis and causal modeling
  5. Inference: clinical and epidemiologic inference

 

 


 
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