Week |
Topic |
Reading assignments |
Slides
|
Written
assignments |
Session
leads
|
Jan 6
Jan 8
|
Intro & Motivation
Epistemology
|
Stokes - Ch 1
|
lec.
1
lec.2
|
|
|
Jan 13
Jan 15
|
Epistemology & Literature search
Study design, RCTs
Research proposals
|
Stokes - Ch 3
<+ your selected article>
Anderson
Study
Design 101
Del Fiol, Cimino
(full paper)
|
lec.3
lec.4
|
|
|
Jan 20
Jan 22
|
MLK Holiday
Specific Aims
|
No Class
STARE-HI
standard
Saleem
et al
Kibbon
et al
|
lec.
5
|
No Class
|
Ahmad
Laura |
Jan 27
Jan 29
|
Causality, study design and bias
Specific Aims
|
Hartman
tutorial--sources of bias
Were-Mamlin
(2010)
|
lec.
6 |
Specific Aims
|
Marea/Ross
Maher/Nathalie
|
Feb 3
|
Data management
|
One article
showing bias
- Taylor
et al - MIBBI project
- MIAME
standard (optional but recommended)
- Watch Redcap
training videos 1, 3-6, and 8 (video2 is
optional)
|
lec.
8
|
Choose one source of
bias; read and bring to class one study or journal
article demonstrating this bias.
|
Whitney/Justin
|
Feb 5
|
Statistics
|
Read:
Stats
tutorial part A
Wyatt
& Wyatt
Skim only:
Ammenwerth
Friedman
& Wyatt
|
lec. 9
|
Specific Aims v. 2
|
Karam/Sean
|
Feb 10
|
Statistics, continued
|
Amarasingham
article
Stats
tutorial part B
|
lec.10
|
Quiz
|
Ahmad/Ross
|
Feb 12
|
Statistics, continued
|
Richesson
Han
et al (for class review)
|
lec.11
|
Proposal: Background
& significance sections
|
Marea/Nathalie
|
Feb 19
|
|
Review
R
tutorial
Review Stats tutorials A & B above
(one reading for review - to be posted)
|
lec.12
|
|
Maher/Justin
|
Feb 24
|
Evaluation
and Qualitative research |
Begley
article (for class review)
Forsythe
and Buchannan
Kaplan
and Maxwell
|
lec.13
|
|
Whitney/Sean
|
Feb 26
|
Statistics,
continued |
|
lec.14
|
Research proposal - methods section |
|
Mar 3
|
Modeling
and simulation guest lecture:
Susie Cassels
|
Anderson
Anderson
& Hunt (for class review)
|
|
|
Karam/Ahmad |
Mar 5
|
|
|
|
Quiz 2 |
|
Mar 10
|
Statistics
guest lecture: Ian Painter
|
|
|
Final research proposal
|
|
Mar 12
|
Research
ethics and IRB
Course wrap-up |
Meta analysis reading 1,
2
|
lec.18
|
|
|