NURSING919

This course provides students with expertise in locating, evaluating, obtaining and utilizing large secondary datasets, including electronic health data, useful for health care related studies. Confidentiality requirements, ethical issues and development of data use agreements to facilitate access while protecting privacy are reviewed. The student gains experience in hands on use of a variety of data sets to answer specific questions, to inform population health problem definition and to design research studies that incorporate strengths of chosen datasets while minimizing data limitations. Students gain beginning expertise in using a LINUX server with SAS original programming. Completion of a graduate statistics course and completion of a graduate research course. Others with strong quantitative backgrounds by permission of instructor. Laptop with access to School of Nursing network is required. Students will be required to meet with School of Nursing IT personnel to obtain assistance in accessing network through laptop prior to first day of course

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