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The future of OpenSAFELY: an important announcement from NHS England, DHSC and the Bennett Institute at Oxford
We are delighted to share the announcement from NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care below, setting out the future of OpenSAFELY.
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Updates of OpenSAFELY Research on COVID-19 Therapeutics
In this guest blog, Bang Zheng and Laurie Tomlinson from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine describe some of their lastest work on the comparative effectiveness and safety of currently recommended COVID-19 therapeutics in the community settings.
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We're hiring! CLOSES SOON!
We have just advertised an exciting and unusual new job. An exciting fellowship based at Jesus College, and working with our amazing team.
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OpenPrescribing Autumn 2023 Newsletter
OpenPrescribing Autumn 2023 Newsletter.
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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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