Do you want to inform healthcare decisions by conducting research on the effectiveness, benefits, and potential harms of treatment options? Would you like to help patients choose care that best meets their needs? Perhaps you’d like to learn the basics of clinical research? Or maybe you’d like to use a national health data registry to answer a research question? If any of these questions resonate Comparative Effectiveness Research Training and Instruction – CERTaIN – Professional Certificate Program is right for you! Created by investigators from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and partner institutions, the CERTaIN Professional Certificate program provides a comprehensive overview of core concepts, research methods and data analysis techniques used in comparative effectiveness (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) across five key areas: Course 1. Introduction Course 2. Knowledge Synthesis Course 3. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Course 4. Pragmatic Clinical Trials and Healthcare Delivery Evaluations Course 5. Observational Studies and Registries Learn from expert decision scientists, biostatisticians, oncologists, economists, social scientists, health care policy experts and epidemiologists how to conduct CER/PCOR and see how CER/PCOR methods have been applied in the real world to conduct state of the art research studies. The CERTaIN Professional Certificate Program is intended for anyone interested in CER/PCOR methods. This program is comprised of 5 courses and includes a combined total of almost 50 lectures in CER/PCOR topics. Each course consists of a series of lectures delivered by content experts and each lecture is segmented into short videos, followed by a quiz to assess your understanding of the material. The CERTaIN Professional Certificate Program is supported by grant number R25HS023214 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The CERTaIN Professional Certificate Program was created by investigators.
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