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
Richard Horton dislikes the economics discipline. That should not come as a shock to anyone. But worse still, this animus appears to arise from a misunderstanding of what economists actually do. Not so long ago, we discussed the fundamental errors… Read More »“Economists are the gods of global health.” Richard Horton at it again!
Endogeneity is everywhere. There is always a reason to assume that there is some endogeneity in a model; sometimes it can’t be totally eliminated and we must just reduce it to acceptable levels. Health economists produce research that often is… Read More »The curse of endogeneity in the clinical literature
