I create two MEPS tutorials recently. One is on the use of condition-event linkage files to capture the disease-specific costs. I used migraine as a motivating example. In this tutorial, I go through the steps to identify migraine-related costs assocaited with office-based visits and inpatient night stays. In the second tutorial, I review how to perform simple trend analysis with linear regressio models. I pooled MEPS data from 2016 to 2021 and apply the approriate primary sampling units and strata from the pooled file.
The first tutorial is located on my RPubs page (MEPS Tutorial 4 - Using condition-event link (CLNK) file: A case study with migraine). The R Markdown code to create the tutorial is located in my GitHub repository (link).
The second tutorial is also located on my Rpubs page (MEPS Tutorial 5 - Simple Trend Analysis with Linear Models). The R Markdown code to create the tutorial is located in my GitHub repository (link).