InFebruary this year I asked the Information Commissioner’s Office(ICO) to investigate reports that Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data had apparently been sold to an actuarial society by the NHS Information Centre (NHSIC), the predecessor to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCI...
Directed Acyclic Graphs DE: Design Effect HoNOS: Health of the Nation Outcome Scale HRA: Health Research Authority IVA: Instrumental Variable Analysis LSP: Life Skills Profile MANSA: Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life MAR: Missing At Random NHS: National Health Service NICE...
The venture of preserving, maintaining, and actively promoting public health requires special methods of information-gathering (epidemiology) and corporate arrangements to act upon significant findings and put them into practice. Statistics collected by epidemiologists attempt to describe and explain the occu...