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309.715.01
Advanced Methods in Health Services Research: Research Design

Location
East Baltimore
Term
2nd Term
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2017 - 2018
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
Tu, Th, 1:30 - 3:20pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

309.616-617 or 300.713 or consent of instructor

Description
Covers components of research design for population-based studies drawn from secondary data. Topics include: a framework for evaluating research design, introduction to secondary data sources, defining study populations, complex sampling designs, data structure, and content in national health surveys, principles of questionnaire design, survey data collection methodologies and measure construction. Addresses important measurement topics, including measurement equivalence and case-mix adjustment. Emphasizes secondary data from national and international health and health care surveys, but also addresses major health program administrative datasets (e.g. Medicare, Medicaid). Student exercises emphasize the development and acquisitions of skills needed to manipulate data from large population survey or administrative datasets to answer a specific research question.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Identify and critique the primary components of quasi-experimental and observational research designs
  2. Evaluate the design, sampling principles, structure, and data collection methods, of large complex national health and health care surveys (a major resource for health services research), as well as the implications of these for data analysis
  3. Create variables and conduct preliminary analyses using data from a large complex national health or health care survey
  4. Discuss the general principles of questionnaire development, with particular application to health and health care surveys
  5. Evaluate administrative data applications in health services research
Enrollment Restriction
undergraduates are not permitted in this course