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Maria E. Suarez-Almazor, MD, PhD, Maria A. Lopez-Olivo, MD, PhD, Robert J. Volk, PhD, Barry R. Davis, MD, PhD, and Sharon H. Giordano, MD, MPH, FASCO

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!

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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.

What you'll learn

  • Describe CER/PCOR methods
  • Interpret systematic review and meta-analysis results, and define strategies for critically appraising the literature
  • Define several types of observational studies, and interpret their results
  • Describe how health registries can be used to make decisions about best clinical care
  • Identify and classify clinical trial designs and describe the statistical methods used to analyze their data

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Five courses

CERTaIN: CER/PCOR Methods: Introduction

(4 hours)
In this course, you will learn basic statistics and study designs used in CER/PCOR, as well as the ethical considerations involved. Topics covered include basic statistical methods, ethics, and an introduction to CER/PCOR.

CERTaIN: Knowledge Synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Clinical Decision Making

(13 hours)
Discover how to critically appraise scientific literature, conduct systematic reviews, and interpret meta-analyses. Learn about literature searches, economic evaluations, and clinical practice guidelines.

CERTaIN: Observational Studies and Registries

(13 hours)
Observational studies collect information from data that has already been collected, or by observing and measuring patients' changes in health status and their response to interventions outside of a clinical trial. In this course, you will learn to identify the characteristics of observational studies, to interpret the results of observational studies, and to describe the use of health registries in comparative effectiveness research (CER).

CERTaIN: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

(10 hours)
In this course, you will learn about the characteristics of CER/PCOR, compare and contrast CER/PCOR studies and randomized controlled trials, and you will hear how PCOR researchers have overcome barriers to ensure patient-centered care.

CERTaIN: Pragmatic Clinical Trials and Healthcare Delivery Evaluations

(13 hours)
In this course, experts discuss options for clinical research. Key decisions for preparing and conducting research, as well as data analysis tools, will be covered. You will learn about pragmatic clinical trials, power and sample size calculations, and more complex study designs.

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