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Outcomes Research Course
2008 Preliminary Course Schedule
Day 1 – Friday, November 14, 2008
Overview of Outcomes Research
| 7:00 – 8:00 am |
Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 8:15 am |
John Birkmeyer
Lecture #1: Introduction
- Methodologies, tools, and subcultures
- Course overview
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| 8:15 – 8:40 am |
Nancy Birkmeyer
Lecture #2: Observational studies: Principles
- Study design
- Chance, bias, confounding, generalizability
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| 8:40 – 9:30 am |
David Flum
Lecture #3: Observational studies: Practice
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| 9:30 – 9:45 am |
Q & A and Discussion |
| 9:45 – 10:15 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:00 pm |
Breakout: Critiquing surgical outcomes studies
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| 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:00 – 1:30 pm |
David Urbach
Lecture #4: Administrative databases
- Medicare, HCUP, VA, and other data sources
- Use and misuses of administrative data
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| 1:30 – 1:50 pm |
Nancy Birkmeyer
Lecture #5: Building your own clinical registries
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining registries
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| 1:50 – 2:05 pm |
Clifford Ko
Lecture #6: Using ACS Clinical Registries for research
- National Trauma Database and National Cancer Database
- Getting access and things you should know
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| 2:05 – 2:20 pm |
Matthew Hutter
Lecture #7: ACS NSQIP
- Getting access, sampling and data elements, pitfalls
- Future changes in ACS NSQIP
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| 2:20 – 2:40 pm |
Q & A and Discussion |
| 2:40 – 3:00 pm |
Break |
| 3:00 – 5:00 pm |
Justin Dimick
Lecture and lab: Intro to data analysis I
- Biostatistics review
- Creating analysis datasets
- Data analysis with STATA
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| 6:00 – 7:00 pm |
Group Reception |
Day 2 – Saturday, November 15, 2008
| 7:00 – 8:00 am |
Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 8:30 am |
Nancy Baxter
Lecture #8: Health-related quality of life: Theory and practice
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| 8:30 – 9:00 am |
Samuel Finlayson
Lecture #9: Decision analysis/Cost-effectiveness analysis
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| 9:00 – 9:30 am |
David Urbach
Lecture #10: Meta-analysis
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| 9:30 – 9:45 am |
Q & A and Discussion
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| 9:45 – 10:15 am |
Coffee Break
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| 10:15 – 12:00 pm |
Justin Dimick
Lecture and lab: Intro to data analysis II
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| 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:00 – 3:00 pm |
Samuel Finlayson and Janice Cormier
Skills lab: Decision analysis I
[Building on key concepts in the Overview lecture, this skills lab will introduce participants to TreeAge decision analytic software and demonstrate basic techniques for building and analyzing a decision tree.]
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| 1:00 – 3:00 pm |
David Urbach
Skills lab: Meta-analysis
[Building on key concepts in the Overview lecture, this skills lab will introduce participants to RevMan software and practical aspects of conducting a meta-analysis.]
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| 1:00 – 3:00 pm |
Module: Participant Research in Progress I
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| 3:00 – 3:30 pm |
Break
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| 3:30 – 5:30 pm |
Samuel Finlayson and Janice Cormier
Lecture and skills lab: Advanced decision analysis
[Recommended for participants already familiar with basic decision analysis, this module will introduce more advanced decision analytic tools, including Markov models.]
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| 3:30 – 5:30 pm |
Nancy Baxter
Module: Health-related quality of life assessment
[In this session, course faculty will focus on practical aspects of instrument selection and development, as well as issues related to analysis of HRQOL data.]
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| 3:30 – 5:30 pm |
Module: Participant Research in Progress II |
| 6:00 – 7:00 pm |
Dinner |
Day 3 – Sunday, November 16, 2008
| 7:00 – 8:00 am |
Breakfast
[Interactive sessions with Course Faculty presenting their own ongoing research as a platform for reinforcing concepts presented earlier and helping participants “get under the hood” of mature, NIH-funded research projects.]
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| 8:00 – 8:40 am |
Justin Dimick
Faculty research in progress:
“Developing composite measures of surgical quality”
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| 8:40 – 9:20 am |
David Flum
Faculty research in progress
Title TBA
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| 9:20 – 10:00 am |
Martin Makary
Faculty research in progress
Title TBA
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| 10:00 – 10:30 am |
Coffee Break
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| 10:30 – 11:10 am |
Janice Cormier
Faculty research in progress
Title TBA
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| 11:10 – 11:50 am |
John Birkmeyer
Faculty research in progress
“Measuring and improving surgical efficiency”
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Adjourn
Outcomes Research Course
Outcomes Research Course Faculty
Revised June 25, 2008
Continuous Quality Improvement
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by the American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL 60611-3211
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