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Secondary Data Analysis

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Mo 1p.m. – 3:30p.m.
BEACONFLEX 3 $2557 (guest students)
Date
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Time
Mo 1p.m. – 3:30p.m.
Location
BEACONFLEX
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$2557 (guest students)

Description

This course will explore the use and limits of large national databases for the conduct of nursing and health policy research. Students will master accessing, downloading, and analyzing data from large data sets. Students will identify a testable research question and develop an analytic file to be used for analysis. Data used for this class are drawn from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization project (HCUP), 2000 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS).

This course is closed for registration.

Course Details