Dave Evans
Consultant Software Developer
Dave began working with the Bennett Institute in 2018 — initially on the OpenPrescribing project and later, in the early days of the pandemic, on the first version of what would become the OpenSAFELY platform. Over the last two decades he has worked with organisations of all shapes and sizes (from startups to multinationals) to solve problems with software and data.
He once laboured under the illusion that he wanted to be a philosopher and has a BA and an MPhil in the subject.
Papers by Dave Evans
- OpenSAFELY: Measuring BMI in 22 million patients in England
- OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research
- Trends in inequalities in avoidable hospitalisations across the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study of 23.5 million people in England
- Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records: a cohort study in 25 million patients’ records at source using OpenSAFELY
- Interpreting Pathology Test Result Values With Comparators (<, >) in Electronic Health Records research: an OpenSAFELY short data report
- Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY-TPP analysis of 20 million adult electronic health records.
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antipsychotic Prescribing
- Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening and hypertension management in England: An analysis of monthly changes in Quality and Outcomes Framework indicators in OpenSAFELY
- Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study using 48 million adults’ primary care records in England through OpenSAFELY
- Data-driven identification of potentially successful intervention implementations: a proof of concept using five years of opioid prescribing data from over 7000 practices in England
- Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics
- Challenges in Estimating the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Using Observational Data
- Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups in England from 2020 to 2022: a retrospective cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform
- Data-Driven Identification of Unusual Prescribing Behavior: Analysis and Use of an Interactive Data Tool Using 6 Months of Primary Care Data From 6500 Practices in England
- Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians' Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review
- OpenSAFELY: Do adults prescribed Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have an increased risk of death from COVID-19?