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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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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
The OpenSAFELY Product Team’s mission is to understand our users’ needs, identify opportunities to improve OpenSAFELY products, and work with the tech teams to figure out the best solutions to build. Who are we? Catherine Stables is Lead Product Manager. In her previous role she was Data Product Manager for DataLoch, based at the University of Edinburgh. She has a background in academic research on cardiovascular disease, and a PhD from King’s College London.
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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.
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The Opensafely Output Checking Service
An outline the OpenSAFELY output checking service: who it involves, how our output checkers are trained and an overview of the output checking workflow.
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Introduction to the Pipeline Team
Introducing the Bennett Institute’s Pipeline team, where we talk about who we are, what we do and some of the products we’re responsible for.
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OpenPrescribing in the media - recent highlights
At the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science we’re always pleased to see stories in the media which have used OpenPrescribing.net. Here are some of the highlights of stories that we have been featured in recently.
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