Virva Hyttinen-Huotari

I am a health economist interested in register-based research. In my PhD thesis I studied how potentially inappropriate medications in older people are associated with health care use, costs and mortality. After the dissertation, my research has continued to focus on the older people and medication use, increasingly focused on physicians’ decision-making and system-level implementation evaluation using registry data and quasi-experimental methods. I am a Principal Investigator in a mixed-method GuideGap project (funded by the Social Insurance Institution (SII) of Finland), which aims to evaluate physicians’ adherence to clinical guidelines generally.