Patricia St. Clair, ScB

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Patricia St. Clair is the Senior Data Advisor in the Data Core at the USC Schaeffer Center. The Data Core provides support for the center’s analytic computing and data resources that are key to its research. The Data Core team includes research programmers, a statistician and an information scientist who provide technical help and training to center students, postdocs, staff, faculty and collaborators; directly support specific research projects; and manage the center’s data infrastructure.

St. Clair has experience with a wide variety of data used in research including longitudinal surveys, Census data and claims data. Prior to joining the Schaeffer Center, she supported research projects on health, education and aging at RAND for nearly 20 years. She earned her ScB in Computer Science from Brown University and has studied neurobehavioral genetics, focusing on circadian rhythms and sleep, in the Inter-departmental Program in Neuroscience at UCLA.

Recent Work

How Sick Is My Cohort of Patients? A General Approach to Identify Chronic Conditions

This presentation discusses a SAS(r) macro that applies Chronic Conditions Warehouse-like rules to any data set either from insurance claims, or electronic health records (EHR) containing a full picture of diagnoses and procedures from patient medical visits.
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Reductions in Mid-Life Diabetes, Hypertension Increase Future Number of Americans with Dementia

Improving cardiovascular health at middle and older ages is not enough to slow the growth in the number of older Americans with dementia, further underscoring the need for innovations that will delay or prevent dementia.
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Using Self Reports or Claims to Assess Disease Prevalence

Patricia St. Clair and her colleagues assess prevalence of diabetes and heart attack in the US elderly population across the most well used data sources for estimation.
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The Value of Delaying Alzheimer’s Disease Onset

Models show that the number of patients will more than double in 40 years, and costs associated with their care will nearly quintuple.
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Recent Work

How Sick Is My Cohort of Patients? A General Approach to Identify Chronic Conditions

Reductions in Mid-Life Diabetes, Hypertension Increase Future Number of Americans with Dementia

Using Self Reports or Claims to Assess Disease Prevalence

The Value of Delaying Alzheimer’s Disease Onset