Accessing Data through DASH: Researcher Impact Story
Are you interested in multi-regional research in Canada? Learn about the value of using administrative data from more than one province through the lens of a researcher. In this session, Dr. Scott Garrison and Erik Youngson will share the benefits, challenges and triumphs of multi-regional research conducted for the BedMed Randomized Controlled Trial, a pragmatic trial in primary care looking at the timing of taking anti-hypertensive medication. Learn how HDRN Canada’s Data Access Support Hub (DASH) helped this research team navigate the data access process across Canada and scale their research to a national level.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Scott Garrison is a practicing family physician with a PhD in Experimental Medicine, and a research interest in clinical trial methodology. He founded and leads a national primary care research network known as the Pragmatic Trials Collaborative through which he and his colleagues conduct large community-based pragmatic trials. One of these trials, known as BedMed, engaged 437 primary care providers from five Canadian provinces to recruit 3,357 hypertensive primary care patients – making it the largest primary care trial ever conducted in Canada.
Erik Youngson is a biostatistician and co-associate director of AbPSORU Data and Research Services/Program Lead within AHS Provincial Research Data Services as well as a member of HDRN Canada’s Data Access Support Hub team. He obtained his Master of Mathematics degree from Waterloo and has been working with health services data in various roles for the past 15 years.
PLEASE NOTE: This event will be recorded and posted on hdrn.ca. This webinar is presented in English.