The National Palliative Care Research Center

Curing suffering through palliative care research.

Research Methods Workshops

Research Methods Workshops are offered to the NPCRC career development award grantees and are conducted in conjunction with the annual Foley Retreat. The workshops consist of 6-8 rotating topics focusing on specialized statistical methods developed to improve data analysis and address the difficulties commonly encountered in palliative care research. Topics include challenges in observational data analysis, hierarchical modeling, instrument selection and development, healthcare cost analysis, and qualitative and mixed methods research.