Resources
Reproducible research in health care and elsewhere
A concise guide to reproducible research using secondary data
Do you seek guidance how to perform a reproducible research project? Check out this open educational resource for guidance and tips
The latest version available from: https://katblankart.github.io/DataLiteracy/
Additional resources: reproducible research & open science
A guide to Reproducibility in Science
Uri Simonshon caters 8 tips to make open research more findable and accessible
Michael Shill provides tips to produce legible and reprodrucible do-files in Stata
Cornell University caters a guide to generate a Readme file to document the meta data of a project.
Health Data Science
Causality and Program Evaluation
Differences-in-Difference design, Health Care Policy Science Lab
Causal Inference: The Mixtape, by Scott Cunningham
Causal Graphs explained by Nick Huntington Klein helps to gain an intuitive understanding of identifying causal effects from non-experimental data, more resources provided
Data science in health services and health policy related research
Health Services Research methods corner provides many resources for program evaluation, econometrics and qualitative research
(Mostly) openly available health care data
Pharmaceutical reference data bases
These data bases help to identify active ingredients by different classifications, all of which are freely available.
WHO ATC Index helps to find active pharmaceutical ingredients by the ATC classification
Drugbank.com allows finding and classifying drugs by a large variety of criteria including the ATC classification, marketing authorization data for the United States (FDA), Canada and the European Union (EMA), a public use file is available for download if you register your research project.
DrugCentral provides comprehensive data about chemical and pharmacological features of pharmaceuticals as well as marketing authorization data.
RxNorm is the US National Library’s compedium linking different vocabularies that document drugs. You may browse it via RxNav
Swiss Pharmaceutical Reference Database - Spezialitätenliste, is freely available for download
German pharmaceutical reference databases are behind paywalls, or for scientific research use that requires registration of a research project
Drug shortages
German health care market
Zi Trendbericht provides developments of prescription pharmaceuticals in Germany
Arzneiverordnungsreport is the annual report of the Germany pharmaceutical market based on GKV-Arzneimittelindex für ambulante Patienten (Statutory Health Insurance Pharmaceutical Index for patients in ambulatory care), provided by AOK-Bundesverband, see the 2020 Edition here.
Barmer Krankenkasse provides an annual report of the pharmaceutical market
WIP provides a report for pharmaceutical care in the privately insured
Early assessments of health benefit based on AMNOG (Arzneimittelmarktneuordnungsgesetz) in Germany
- Comprehensive data of benefit assessments is provided in XML format from GBA, currently includes decisions starting from 2020, but will be updated steadily to cover all assessments starting from 2011.
- As part of a project funded by the German Research Foundation, I provide data from the first years that AMNOG was in effect
- DAK AMNOG Report 2020, annual report of AMNOG decisions
- Innovationsreport Techniker Krankenkasse is an annual report about the quality of pharmaceutical care
Open data to study physician behavior
- US National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) has public use files on physician level
Working Agile and using scrum principles in academic research projects
I am an advocate of agile methods to structure research projects and team work in academia, here are some resources to start off your scrum-based or agile work:
What is scrum and agile and how can this help to organize scientific work? This Nature article provides an introduction to scrum principles and how the work of research teams could benefit from scrum methods. It introduces key concepts of scrum.
[The Agile Academic Podcast] and Agile Academic Blog by Rebecca Pope-Ruark who also has written a book about agile faculty
Besides scrum, the Pomodoro technique helps to structure a day and pomofocus.io is a tool to do so.