The annual Health Studies User Conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and NatCen Social Research, is a full-day conference and is free to attend. The conference will allow users to hear updates from the data… Read More »Health Studies User Conference 2019
This course includes instruction on how to: understand, manage and manipulate the data construct and analyse key variables such as waiting times or length of stay analyse individual patient records defined as Finished Consultant Episodes, Provider Spells and Continuous Inpatient Spells… Read More »Analysing Patient-Level Data using Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
In the past ten years, there has been an increase in symptoms of depression and anxiety among young women. We do not know whether this trend is echoed within the student population or how characteristics, including gender, ethnicity, sexuality or… Read More »SMaRteN webinar: Secondary Data Analysis of general population surveys
Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don’t cover everything, or even what’s most important – just a few papers that have interested the author. Visit… Read More »Sam Watson’s journal round-up for 29th October 2018
This intensive workshop introduces participants to HES (Hospital Episode Statistics) data and how to handle and manipulate these very large patient-level data sets using computer software. Understanding and interpreting the data is a key first step for using these data… Read More »Analysing Patient-Level Data using HES Workshop
Once a month we discuss a particular research method that may be of interest to people working in health economics. We’ll consider widely used key methodologies, as well as more novel approaches. Our reviews are not designed to be comprehensive… Read More »Method of the month: Coding qualitative data
One of the advantages of writing blogs is that it can help to refresh and consolidate you thoughts on a topic. And when you spend a lot of time writing stats code, other people’s blogs that discuss how to code specific… Read More »Geostatistical modelling with R and Stan
The world’s highest impact factor medical journal, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), seems to have been doing some soul searching. After publishing an editorial early in 2016 insinuating that researchers requesting data from trials for re-analysis were “research parasites“,… Read More »Data sharing and the cost of error
Simulation and data analysis are two of the principle parts of health economics research. Most Master’s courses teach both, although many focus more heavily on the former. There are many programs and packages available to a researcher, each with their… Read More »Tools of the trade