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Introduction to the Data Team
Hello, from the Bennett Institute’s Data Team! In this short blog post, we’ll describe our mission, our backgrounds in industry and academia, and what we’re working on now.
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An Update on Our Co-piloting Programme: How Have We Grown?
Taking some time to describe the co-piloting programme in numbers, to give an idea of the scale of this programme, who our co-pilots are and who we are working with
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Re-running your study, quickly and easily: why automated pipelines matter for research
Better and more efficient health science with reusable pipelines and cross-disciplinary expertise.
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‘Safe Outputs’ and Statistical Disclosure Control in OpenSAFELY
Taking a deeper look at the ‘Safe Outputs’ dimension of this framework, and how it is applied in OpenSAFELY.
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OpenSAFELY Research Highlights
Here we outline some of the research that has been produced with OpenSAFELY, as well as the features that make it such a great platform for research.
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The ‘Five Safes’ Framework and applying it to OpenSAFELY
The Fives Safes framework is a popular framework for designing safe and efficient data access systems that has been adopted by a range of Trusted Research Environments (TREs) across the UK.
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OpenSAFELY NHS Service Analytics
On 7th May 2020, the OpenSAFELY Collaborative pre-printed the world’s largest study into factors associated with death from COVID-19, based on an analysis running across the full pseudonymised health records of 40% of the English population.
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Generating data on the NHS England Core20PLUS5 inequality groups using OpenSAFELY in GP records
In order to tackle health inequalities NHS England have recently launched the Core20PLUS5 initiative to help local areas identify and reduce inequalities across key areas.
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Using electronic health records and open science in the COVID-19 pandemic
We recently presented on behalf of our team (grp-EHR) at an open science workshop, hosted by the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. This was a great opportunity for us to reflect on our team’s experiences using OpenSAFELY, and more broadly embracing open and team science approaches to our work.
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