Record Linkage and Bioinformatics
Module leads
Learning objectives:
- To appreciate the range of routine healthcare data available for population health research
- To appreciate the technical aspects of record linkage, data processing, outcome phenotyping and statistical analysis of linked data
- To be able to incorporate routine healthcare data into the design of large-scale epidemiological studies
Sessions:
- Exploiting new technologies for large-scale health research
- Record linkage and data processing
- Practical issues in the analysis of electronic medical records and other linked data
- Generating information on phenotype
- The use of routine data for efficient randomised trials
- Consolidation