Abstract:
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, which authorized the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) required the establishment of the PCORI Methodology Committee; its tasks included developing methodological standards for PCORI-funded studies. Funded by PCORI, faculty at the Johns Hopkins University prepared an online academic curriculum to help in the dissemination of the Methodology Standards. The curriculum was written to be instructive to diverse learners but principally to investigators in academic settings and staff in funding agencies, as well as those working in patient advocacy organizations. The curriculum is prepared as slides accompanied by audio for each of the 11 Categories of the Methodology Standards, many of which relate to statistical methods, including data integrity, missing data, adaptive designs, heterogeneity of treatment effects, and causal inference (including non-experimental studies). This talk will discuss the development of the curriculum and lessons learned in preparing content to disseminate statistical methodology standards to a diverse learning audience.
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