FHE5100 ¨C Register-based Studies

Course content

In this course, the student will get insight into the official health registers in Norway, including registries from primary and secondary care, and other registers important for health research. The students will plan register-based studies and learn to work with both simple and complex register-based datasets and learn how to critically read papers based on registers.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:

• describe the purpose and structure of central registers in Norway that are relevant for health research and how data can be used
• explain how coding takes place in registries based on diseases, diagnostic and treatment pathways
• explain how data quality depends on the origin of the data, and by how and whom it was registered
• describe Norwegian laws and regulations pertaining to register-based data
• describe strengths and weaknesses of register-based data
• describe how systematic errors can occur when using register-based data

Skills

Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:

• plan register-based studies
• handle very large register-based data sets
• define research questions, exposures, and outcomes in register-based data by using knowledge about diseases and treatment and combining available information from different registers
• carry out and analyse register-based studies (using data from a single registry, data combined from two or more registries, or a combination of registry data and clinical or survey data)
• identify confounders, mediators, colliders, unmeasured variables, and instrument variables
• identify sources of systematic errors in register-based data, and develop strategies to minimize the impact of such errors in the design and analysis phase

General competence

Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:

• read and critically evaluate scientific protocols and papers that use register-based data

Admission to the course

This course is only available for master students at the following master programmes

• studieprogam:MFM2-FHEP

• studieprogam:MFM2-INTHE

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Students at Folkehelsevitenskap og epidemiologi have priority.There are 10 available seats for students at International Community Health. If there are more than 10 applicants from International Community Health, the principle of the first come, first served applies

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Recommended previous knowledge

• INTHE4020 ¨C Introduction to Quantitative Methods
• INTHE4021 ¨C Introduction to Epidemiology
• FHE4110 ¨C Fundamentals in Data Management and Statistics
• FHE4120 ¨C Introduction to Logistic and Cox regression
• FHE4100 ¨C Clinical Epidemiology and Scientific Evidence in Health and Health Care

Teaching

• About 50% of the teaching will be lectures, whereas the rest will be group work and computer exercises

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Examination

Oral exam in groups.

Examination and grading at The Faculty of Medicine.

Language of examination

The examination text is given in English.You may submit your response in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.

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