Louis Fisher
Data Scientist
Louis is a data scientist at the Bennett Institute working on the OpenSAFELY platform. He is interested in translational health data research and open science. Louis has a BSc in Biomedical Science and MSc in Health Data Analytics & Machine Learning from Imperial College London where he focussed on computer vision for cardiac imaging.
Papers by Louis Fisher
- OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research
- 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 the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of common infections in primary care and the change to antibiotic prescribing in England
- Challenges in Estimating the Effectiveness of 2 Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Beyond 6 Months in England
- 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
- Evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admission related to common infections
- Repeated antibiotic exposure and risk of hospitalisation and death following COVID-19 infection (OpenSAFELY): a matched case–control study
- DMARD monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 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
- Impact of COVID-19 on broad-spectrum antibiotic prescribing for common infections in primary care in England: a time-series analyses using OpenSAFELY and effects of predictors including deprivation
- The impact of COVID-19 on antibiotic prescribing in primary care in England: Evaluation and risk prediction of appropriateness of type and repeat prescribing
- 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
- Trends and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients
- Identifying Care Home Residents in Electronic Health Records
Blog posts by Louis Fisher
- PINCER: Monitoring medication safety throughout the COVID-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY
- OpenSAFELY Service Restoration Observatory: Key Measures
- Running the OpenSAFELY Output Checking Service
- The Opensafely Output Checking Service
- ‘Safe Outputs’ and Statistical Disclosure Control in OpenSAFELY
- The ‘Five Safes’ Framework and applying it to OpenSAFELY