Practical data management

Managing health data has never been more challenging or significant. Data now plays a pivotal role in health care provision, discovery and research.

As health data becomes more widely accessible, it is essential that health data users can identify high quality data and understand the implications of poor data management.

In this unit, you will explore health data management using a practical, skills-based approach. You will be guided through the process and pitfalls of health data management from project inception to final data analysis for a hypothetical study. Practical skills will be developed through the completion of weekly data management tasks and coding exercises.

Topics covered include: data management for project set-up, data collection design and pitfalls, data querying and cleaning, handling tricky data, interim data reporting and preparing for data analysis.