Exam in Register Based Epidemiology

Master in Innovation in Health Care

For information about student work load during the course: please see the course desciption for "Course in Public Health Informatics".

ECTS: 4,5 ECTS
Type of assessment: Written examination, 5 hours under invigilation
Type of assessment details: Written eksam consists of a number of questions which can be answered by using data sets provided at the time of exam. Questions are answered during the 5 hour exam by programminug in statistical software Stata.
Aid: All aids allowed

All help/material - including notes uploaded to Digital Notes (you will find a link for this feature in connection with your test in Digital Exam) is allowed, but not devices that allow for external communication (mobile phones, internet acces to messenger, etc.).

Find more information about written on-site exams in the exam rooms, incl. information about standard programs on the exam PCs at KUnet
Marking scale: 7-point grading scale
Censorship form: No external censorship

To get the highest grade, student should illutsrate:

explain the content and structure of the data in the selected Danish health registers
explain different disease classification systems used in Danish registers
explain the quality indicators and validty of register data and can explain the methods for evaluation of validty
explain the use of registers for both administrative and research purposes
explain how collected register data can be used as quality, process and result indicators
perform editing of raw register data in format suitable for statistical analyses in Stata
perform analyses of register data in Stata and calculate person-years, mortality rates, prevalence and incidence rates
explain application of register data in descriptive and analytical epidemiology
explain under which circumstances data can be used in informing the citizens
explain the balance between detail and 'noise' in data (missclasification and statistical variation) i registers
explain the quality indicators and validty of register data and can explain the methods for evaluation of validty

If you need to contact the study secretary, please the Student Affairs Department contact information (list in Danish only): https://sund.ku.dk/kontakt/aus-medarbejderoversigt/#Studieservice

Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

Saved on the 06-04-2022

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