Course description
The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to:
1) methods and publicly available data for drug utilization studies, and
2) issues typically encountered in pharmacoepidemiology, specifically exposure misclassification and confounding by indication.
Prerequisites and Selection
Prerequisite courses, or equivalent
Knowledge corresponding to the intended learning outcomes of the KI doctoral courses Epidemiology I: Introduction to Epidemiology and Biostatistics I: Introduction for epidemiologists.
Selection
Selection will be based on:
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s doctoral project (according to written motivation).
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date).
Course director
Carolyn Cesta, carolyn.cesta@ki.se
Course syllabus
K2F6033
Department
Department of Medicine, Solna
Doctoral programme
Epidemiology
Type of course
**Other course
Keywords
Pharmacoepidemiology