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International Health Data Linkage Network Staff Hosting & Exchange Opportunity- Department of Health Services Research & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 

A fantastic opportunity! Our first completed staff exchange form has been received from Professor Jan van der Meulen at the Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Jan and his team are keen to both host a person at their organisation and to undertake an exchange.

Hosting

 The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine collaborates closely with the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Their joint unit, the Clinical Effectiveness Unit (CEU), carries out large-scale studies of process and outcome of surgical care and their determinants www.rcseng.ac.uk/surgical_research_units/ceu . The data that are being used come from a wide range of sources and are often linked at individual patient level. The CEU would welcome support for its work on the evaluation of linkage methods and data quality, handling missing values, risk adjustment, and clinical performance monitoring. A person from an organisation with experience of linking administrative and clinical data and looking for a sabbatical is likely to fit the bill. 

Exchange

 Staff of the Clinical Effectiveness Unit have a variety of backgrounds ranging from statistics and epidemiology, data management through to medical and social sciences. Staff are especially interested in the organisational, logistic and methodological aspects of large-scale observational studies of health care quality assessment and performance monitoring. They are interested in taking a placement at an organisation with experience in linking administrative and clinical data.

 If you are interested in either, please email Emma.Fuller@health.wa.gov.au  and all interest will be forwarded to Professor van der Meulen.

Watch this space and save the date!

In May 2012, Perth Western Australia will host an International Data Linkage Conference. More information to be posted as it is received.