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Exploiting existing data for health research
17/09/2009 - 19/09/2009
School of Geography & GeoSciences, The University of St Andrews.
The second conference in a now biennial series, follows a highly successful meeting in 2007. This conference has attracted over 70 papers and 120 participants from across the world including New Zealand, Australia, US Canada and Europe and will include papers relating to five themes: 1. The value of record linkage in health research 2. Record linkage for health care improvement 3. Longitudinal record linkage 4. The methodological challenges of record linkage 5. Confidentiality, disclosure and ethical issues
A 5-day training workshop precedes the conference (12th to 16th September 2009) will also include five themes: 1. Using linkable registry data in health services research 2. Measuring health services utilisation 3. Characterising clinical populations using linkable registry data 4. Evaluating health services outcome 5. Theory and practice of risk adjustment in health services research
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