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Activity Number: 103 - Educational Tools for Causal Inference in the Health Sciences
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, July 30, 2018 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
Abstract #326916 Presentation
Title: The Development of an Online Teaching Curriculum for PCORI's Methodology Standards
Author(s): Elizabeth A Stuart*
Companies: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Keywords: Education; Patient Centered Outcomes Research; Missing data; Non-experimental studies; Online education
Abstract:

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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