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HIM6217-21S

Repository to accompany Health Care Database Managements (HIM6217) course at the University of Central Florida in the Spring of 2021

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Nield, T. (2016). Getting started with SQL: A Hands-On Approach for Beginners. O’Reilly.(link)
https://sqlbolt.com/
Forta, B. (2019). SQL in 10 Minutes a Day, Sams Teach Yourself. Sams Publishing.(link)

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Homework rely on synthetic data bases inspired by the Medicare Claims Synthetic Public Use Files (SynPUFs). For the scripts generating and augmenting these synthetic data bases see ./manipulation/ folder.

Template of Instructions to Outsiders

I'm glad you’d like to learn sql & databases in general --it's a big part of what we do as statisticians/analysts.

The easiest way to get self-started is to complete the first 12 lessons of https://sqlbolt.com/. It's a slick website that teaches & tests you in small manageable chunks. Lessons 13+ are good too, but not typically used by entry analysts.

A target audience is a masters student preparing for their first job in health analytics.

The homework/ directory might be most useful to you; it's a sequence of 6 assignments. Each assignment has two sql files: one with only the questions (eg, homework/homework-1-empty.sql) and one with answers (homework/homework-1.sql). The top of each homework indicates what database to use (ie, synpuf_1), which can be found in data-public/exercises/synpuf/.

The course relied on two (short & cheap) books found in the readme.md file in the root directory (Nield, 2016; Forta, 2019).

Finally, here is an introduction to SQLiteStudio. It's easily installed on your machine, and fairly similar to the database engines used in most of health research. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_L0gwt4ysA

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