Nikki van Leeuwen
Scientific Researcher
Research group
Medical Decision-making
I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Medical Decision Making group at the department of Public Health. I have a background in Health Sciences (BSc) and Clinical Epidemiology (MSc). I conducted my PhD thesis at the department of Public Health with the title: Design and analysis of randomized and non-randomized studies: improving validity and reliability.
My main research interests are: causal inference in observational data, measuring quality of care and the evaluation of value-based healthcare. Currently I supervise 8 PhD students.
Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam
Internal post address Na-2401
P.O. Box 2040
3000 CA Rotterdam
Visitor address:
Erasmus MC
Room no.: NA-23 or 24th floor
Dr. Molewaterplein 40
3015 GD Rotterdam
Action Line leader Outcome-based health care – Smarter Choices for Better Health 2.0
Quality and effectiveness of oncology care – Collaboration with Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (INKL)
Projectmember:
- PERFEQTOS – Performance feedback on quality of care in hospitals performing thrombectomy for ischemic stroke, a cluster-randomized trial
- UNITE – Uitkomstgericht organiseren en betalen van regionaal georganiseerde zorg voor herseninfarct patiënten
- NFU Review Value Based Integrated Care
- IBD Value study – A value-based care pathway for the treatment of IBD with biologics: a multicentre longitudinal pre-post study
Course coordinator Value-Based Health Care (5EC) – ESHPM
Lecture “Quality of Care” – Medicine BSc & Clinical Technology BSc
Invited lecturer at the Erasmus Value-Based Health Care Summer course on Pitfalls of benchmarking
Community projects – Medicine BSc – Supervisor of project group with 5-6 students
Publications list
Most relevant publications
Regression discontinuity was a valid design for dichotomous outcomes in three randomized trials
J Clin Epidemiol
Regression Discontinuity Design: Simulation and Application in Two Cardiovascular Trials with Continuous Outcomes
Epidemiology
Improving quality of stroke care through benchmarking center performance: why focusing on outcomes is not enough
BMC Health Serv Res
Ordinal outcome analysis improves the detection of between-hospital differences in outcome
BMC Med Res Methodol