Programming with Health Care Claims Data Using SAS is a two-day course that will use lectures and hands-on programming sessions to provide an overview of using SAS® software to understand and use Medicare claims data.
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| Dates: | September 26-27, 2019 |
| Time: | 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Location: | University of Maryland, Baltimore 620 W. Lexington St., Room 4105 Baltimore, MD 21201 |
About the Course:
Programming with Health Care Claims Data Using SAS will use lectures and hands-on programming sessions to provide an overview of using SAS software to understand and use Medicare Claims data. The data that will be used in the course is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Synthetic Public Use File, which has been completely cleansed of any private patient information. Anyone can download this file and use it for analysis, making it a great place to start learning about claims data.
Students enrolled in this course will utilize SAS Studio to analyze and summarize claims data. They will have the opportunity to ask questions of subject matter experts and receive a flash drive that contains numerous resources to help them continue using the knowledge gained during the course.
Students will also receive five hours of post-course consulting from Pharmaceutical Research Computing (PRC).
Who Should Attend?
Programming with Health Care Claims Data Using SAS is designed for individuals who know a little about SAS Studio or PC SAS, but who want to learn more about it and how to use it to conduct research with claims based data. It is ideal for researchers from academia, government, and other organizations who want to be able to write applications to research Medicare claims based data.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Use SAS Studio to view and analyze claims datasets
- Use SAS Studio to generate code
- Make SAS generated code re-usable in an application
- Understand the basics of SAS processing
- Understand the SAS Data step
- Understand many of the common procedures in SAS that are useful with claims applications
- Understand ways to summarize and present data in SAS
- Know how to write basic SAS programs
- Understand the way SAS handles dates
- Know where to go to get more information when working with SAS and with claims data
For More Information:
More information about this course, including registration and a course outline, is available on this website.
If you have questions about this course that are not addressed on this website, please contact prc@rx.umaryland.edu.
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