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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Literary Cafe series - Policy Analysis (Part 1): Getting Data From CDC WONDER

This is Part 1 on a series of articles that I plan to write on how to perform analyses using publicly available data inspired by published studies.

Hence, I wrote an article on how to get death data from CDC WONDER, which I posted on my RPubs site here.

I’m not sure how these articles will evolve, so I’ll start with something simple like this first part, which is to gather the data to perform the analysis (Part 2 is available here).

Meanwhile, I think I’ll call these series of articles, “Literary Cafe series.” (Note: I know that this title needs work.)

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