Public Health Insights: Clinical Reporting Using {gtsummary}
Workshop Overview
Join us for an engaging and informative workshop on “Public Health Insights: Clinical Reporting Using {gtsummary}.” This workshop is designed to equip public health professionals, researchers, and analysts with the skills and knowledge to effectively utilize the {gtsummary}
package for creating comprehensive clinical reports. {gtsummary}
is a powerful tool that streamlines the process of summarizing data, making it an invaluable asset for deriving meaningful insights and driving evidence-based decisions in public health contexts.
Through hands-on demonstrations and interactive sessions, participants will learn how to leverage {gtsummary}
to generate visually appealing and interpretable clinical reports. The workshop will cover essential concepts, best practices, and practical examples that demonstrate the application of {gtsummary}
in real-world public health scenarios. Whether you’re a seasoned data analyst or new to the world of data reporting, this workshop will provide you with the tools and techniques needed to elevate your clinical reporting capabilities.
What is gtsummary?
The gtsummary package provides an elegant and flexible way to create publication-ready summary tables in R.
A critical part of the work of statisticians, data scientists, and analysts is summarizing data sets and regression models in R and publishing or sharing polished summary tables.
The gtsummary package was created to streamline these everyday analysis tasks by allowing users to easily create reproducible summaries of data sets, regression models, survey data, and survival data with a simple interface and very little code.
The package follows a tidy framework, making it easy to integrate with standard data workflows, and offers many table customization features through function arguments, helper functions, and custom themes.
Learning objectives
Build, customize, and report tables often found in medical journals and other research-related publications.
Is this course for me?
If your answer to any of the following questions is “yes”, then this is the right workshop for you.
Do you make summary tables in R (data, survey data, regression models, time-to-event data, adverse event reports)?
Do you want your workflow to be reproducible?
Are you often frustrated with the immense amount of code required to create great-looking tables in R?
The workshop is designed for those with some experience in R. It will be expected that you can perform basic data manipulation. Experience with the {tidyverse} and the %>%
operator is a plus, but not required.
Prework
Before attending the workshop please have the following installed and configured on your machine.
Recent version of R
Recent version of RStudio
Most recent release of the gtsummary and other packages used in workshop.
<- instll_pkgs c("gtsummary", "tidyverse", "labelled", "usethis", "causaldata", "fs", "skimr", "car", "emmeans") install.packages(instll_pkgs)
Ensure you can knit R markdown documents
- Open RStudio and create a new Rmarkdown document
- Save the document and check you are able to knit it.