Department for Health Evidence, Radboud university medical center (Radboudumc)

We aim to improve healthcare and public health by developing,applying and teaching methods for prediction and evaluation research,with a focus on research methodology and data analysis. Epidemiologists,biostatisticians,HTA experts,and toxicologists are connected to this department. We develop and implement novel pharmacoepidemiological approaches to design studies (such as sequential or adaptive designs,or designs that use prior information effectively) and methods to solve data analysis problems we encounter or foresee,given new research questions and types of data. Furthermore,we perform drug utilization studies as well as analytical studies,and provide methodological guidance to many pharmacoepidemiologic studies performed within and outside our university medical center.