Literary Cafe series: Patterns and costs of GLP1-RA (Part 1) - Getting data from MEPS

In this Literary Cafe series, I attempt to reproduce the findings from Wu and colleagues’ paper, “Patterns and costs associated with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist use in US adults with type 2 diabetes“ (link).

In this first part (with subsequent parts to follow), I demonstrate how we can use the same publicly available data from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to reproduce the sample used by Wu and colleagues in their study (link).

I published this article in my RPubs page (link).

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Loading data into the R environment

I wrote a short exercise on how to load *.csv and *.xlsx files into the R environment, which I posted on my RPubs site (link)

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R - Tips and Tricks (Guide) - Part 2

I wrote a second R guide to help students navigate and use R and RStudio in their biostatistics course. I focused on creating vectors, matrices, and dataframes.

The guide can be found on my RPubs site.

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