Final practical

Theme

During this week you will conduct a study on opiod use. We will conduct the steps of a typical study:

• The first day you will create and characterise the database that we are going to work with.
• The second day you will create the codelist and cohorts of interest.
• The third day you will characterise the cohorts of interest and calculate the incidence and prevalence of different opiods in your database.
• The fourth day you will conduct a Drug Utilisation Study and analyse the treatment adherence of opiods.

Project

You should have already downloaded the project, please open the Practical project and create the database.

Database

The script createDatabase.R will create the database that we will use during this week, please take into account that it is synthetic data so please interpret the results carefully. Please only run the script to create the database once.

Practical

Each comment gives you instructions to complete simple tasks, it should be followed by a block of 4/5 lines of code maximum. Ask for help to the teacher assistants if you get stuck.