Practical Pharmacoepidemiology

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Short course

In London

£ 1,350 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    Flexible

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The course is designed for students with a basic grounding in epidemiological methods and concepts and/or some prior knowledge of pharmacoepidemiology. During this course students will:

Develop their knowledge of pharmacoepidemiological concepts and methods, with a particular focus on database studies.
Gain practical experience of testing study feasibility and performing analyses in STATA, using primary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) (prior experience of STATA not required).
Gain an understanding of biases and other sources of error that can occur in pharmacoepidemiology studies, and strategies to avoid them.

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Location

Start date

London
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Start date

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About this course

Personnel concerned with the safe use of medicines, particularly in developed countries, especially those working in:

The pharmaceutical industry who are involved in drug development, licensing or surveillance
Regulatory bodies who are involved in licensing & surveillance
Academics interested in evaluating the effects of drugs
The health service who are involved in drug policy/decision making
Applicants will normally have a science, biomedical or biostatistical background, hold a second class honours degree of a United Kingdom university (or equivalent) in a science, medical, statistical or related subject and will have some post-graduate experience in the area of pharamacoepidemiology, including an understanding of methodological concepts such as bias and confounding. It is not expected that applicants will actually be conducting pharmacoepidemiology studies.

Up to 30 participants will be accepted.

The course has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 20 Category 1 (external) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits.

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Subjects

  • Testing
  • Database
  • Database training
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Measurements
  • Exposures
  • Resources
  • Feasibility
  • Methods
  • Practice
  • Practice Nurse
  • Research

Course programme

Course Content
  • Overview of study designs for pharmacoepidemiology
  • Measurements in pharamacoepidemiology - including outcomes, exposures, co-variates and issues of validation
  • The practicalities of study design and subsequent feasibility testing
  • Overview of data resources for pharmacoepidemiology & factors covering the choice of database
  • Overview of methods for handling bias and confounding - including matching, regression models and propensity scores
  • The practicalities of data analysis using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
  • Overview of clinical trials in pharmacoepidemiology, including real world randomisation
  • Use of registries in pharmacoepidemiology
  • Meta-analysis - overview and practical application
  • Overview of methods for dealing with missing data in pharmacoepidemiology studies
  • Appraisal of published pharmacoepidemiology papers
Teaching Methods

The course will be delivered in the form of lectures, focused discussions and tutor-led computer practical classes.

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