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 two research projects (MEDIFF and GuideGap, both funded by the Social Insurance Institution (SII) of Finland). The MEDIFF evaluates the effectiveness of implementation of strategies for improving rational pharmacotherapy using registry data. The GuideGap is mixed-method research project, which aims to evaluate physicians’ adherence to clinical guidelines generally.