Season 2, Episode 6: The Power of Administrative Health Data with Dr. Eric Benchimol
In this episode of The Emerging Scholar Podcast, we explore the power of routinely collected (administrative) health data in population health research.
We're extremely excited to be joined by Dr. Eric Benchimol, pediatric gastroenterologist at SickKids, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto, Senior Core Scientist at ICES, and Northbridge Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dr. Benchimol leads internationally recognized research using large-scale health datasets to understand why Canada has among the highest rates of IBD.
We break down what administrative health data is, its key strengths and limitations, and what emerging scholars need to know before using it. This wide ranging discussion also covers the RECORD reporting guidelines, the Canadian Gastrointestinal Epidemiology Consortium, and a recent CMAJ study using machine learning to examine premature mortality in people living with IBD.
So grateful for another engaging conversation that's essential for trainees, clinicians, and researchers who are interested in population-based methods and real-world data as the continue on their scholar journey.
Papers & Resources That We Touched On In This Episode:
- Living Like an Academic Athlete: How to Improve Clinical and Academic Productivity as a Gastroenterologist
- The RECORD reporting guidelines: meeting the methodological and ethical demands of transparency in research using routinely-collected health data
- The reporting of studies conducted using observational routinely collected health data statement for pharmacoepidemiology (RECORD-PE)
- CONSORT extension for the reporting of randomised controlled trials conducted using cohorts and routinely collected data (CONSORT-ROUTINE): checklist with explanation and elaboration
- Increasing incidence of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease in Ontario, Canada: evidence from health administrative data
- Validation of international algorithms to identify adults with inflammatory bowel disease in health administrative data from Ontario, Canada
- Academic Performance among Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Population-Based Study
- Inflammatory bowel disease in immigrants to Canada and their children: a population-based cohort study
- Machine learning prediction of premature death from multi-morbidity among people with inflammatory bowel disease: a population-based retrospective cohort study
- Canada Hospitalization Database
- Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium
- Validation of algorithms in studies based on routinely collected health data: general principles
- Straw into Gold: Lessons Learned (and Still Being Learned) at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
Administrative datasets available for answering research questions:
Guests
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Dr. Eric Benchimol
Eric Benchimol is a pediatric gastroenterologist, epidemiologist, and Professor of Paediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, where he holds the Northbridge Chair of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the SickKids IBD Centre. A clinician-scientist, Dr. Benchimol focuses on caring for children with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis while leading population-based research to understand why Canada has among the highest rates of IBD worldwide, identify environmental risk factors, and improve health system care for children with IBD. He chairs the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC), co-chairs the Canadian Children Inflammatory Bowel Disease Network, and co-chairs the international RECORD Steering Committee, which aims to improve the quality and transparency of research using routinely collected health data.