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OpenPrescribing Autumn 2023 Newsletter
OpenPrescribing Autumn 2023 Newsletter.
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Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
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Incidence and management of inflammatory arthritis in England before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
In this guest blog, Mark Russell describes the research that he has undertaken with the help of his team from King’s College London using OpenSAFELY.
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Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on common infections: Treatment Pathways, Antibiotic Prescribing, and Exposure
Xiaomin Zhong, Ya-Ting Yang, Dr Ali Fahmi, Dr Victoria Palin and Professor Tjeerd Van Staa from Manchester University have been using OpenSAFELY for analyses focused on the impact of COVID-19 on antimicrobial resistance since 2021. In this guest blog they describe some of their recent papers that have been published in peer review journals.
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Lifting the Lid on Special Container Changes
In this blog, we describe how OpenPrescribing tools helped identify and investigate a sudden £450k per month increase in NHS expenditure
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Unlocking Discoveries Safely: Using the primary care data of 59 million patients to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in at-risk populations
In this blog post Millie Green shares some of the findings from a federated analysis carried out using OpenSAFELY.
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What Are Codelists and How Are They Constructed?
In this blog we explain what codelists are, how they are constructed and review existing literature on construction processes.
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Why ehrQL?
Why did we create a new query language?
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OpenSAFELY Wins CogX Award for Open Science Innovation
The OpenSAFELY Collaborative has won a prestigious CogX Award for the Best Innovation in Open Source Technology
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NHS England Medicines Optimisation Opportunities - A new dashboard on OpenPrescribing
In this blog we describe how to use and access the NHS England Medicines Optimisation Oppurtunitites dashboard on OpenPrescribing
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OpenSAFELY Service Restoration Observatory: Key Measures
In this blog, we describe the development of a set of key measures used to monitor the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care as part of the OpenSAFELY Service Restoration Observatory (SRO). The results from this work have now been published in eLife.
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Introduction to the Information Governance Team
Here we introduce the Bennett Institute’s Information Governance team, explaining who they are, and what they do.
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Challenges in Estimating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Using Observational Data
Our new paper describes some of the biases that exist when estimating COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness using routinely-collected health data, and discusses the use of target trial emulation to avoid or mitigate these biases.
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An Introduction to Clinical Codes and Terminology Systems
An introduction to what clinical codes are, why they are used and the terminology systems used within OpenSAFELY work.
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Running the OpenSAFELY Output Checking Service
A summary of our findings from running the OpenSAFELY output checking service.
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OpenSAFELY for Impact: COVID-19 Therapeutics
Millie and Laurie share how some of the outputs from the work on COVID-19 therapeutics have been used to inform policy and guidelines in the NHS and beyond.
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NHS Service Restoration Observatory 2: changes in primary care clinical activity in England during the COVID-19 pandemic
The latest paper from our NHS Service Restoration Observatory, examining changes in primary care activity over the pandemic was recently published in the British Journal of General Practice.
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Introduction to the Product Team
Introducing the Bennett Institute’s Product team, where we talk about who we are, what we do and how we work.
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COVID-19-related mortality from 2020 to 2022: the changing picture
Our OpenSAFELY study describing patterns in COVID-19-related mortality in the first five pandemic waves is now published open-access in the Lancet Public Health.