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Introduction to Hospital Episode Statistics
28 October 2024鈥�29 October 2024, 10:00 am鈥�4:00 pm
This course will provide you with an understanding of how HES data are collected and coded, their structure, and how to clean and analyse HES data. A key focus will be on developing an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of HES, how inconsistencies arise, and approaches to deal with these.
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Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is the national hospital admission database for England,听which is increasingly being used for research, clinical outcomes monitoring, and public health听and service planning.听
The course consists of a mixture of lectures and practicals听for which you will use Stata and听听R software to clean and analyse HES data. Please ensure you have the Stata or R software downloaded on your computer to be able to follow talks and practice sessions.
This course听will be delivered online.听
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- Who should attend
The course is for researchers and data analysts in academia,听government and private sector at all levels who are using or听planning to use HES for their work.
- Topics covered
- HES data collection and coding
- HES data structure
- How to clean and manage HES data
- How to ensure anonymity and confidentiality
- How to carry out basic analyses using HES data
- Sources of variation in HES data
- An introduction to other hospital databases in the UK
- Outcome
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Understand how and why HES data are听collected
- Be aware of the strength and weaknesses听of using HES data for research
- Be able to implement basic cleaning,听management and analysis tasks using听HES data
- Know how to ensure anonymity and听confidentiality when using HES
- Fees and Registration
Fees:
The fees for this course are:
Students:听拢70.00
Public sector:听拢170.00
Private sector:听拢470.00
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