Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
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.
An introduction to what clinical codes are, why they are used and the terminology systems used within OpenSAFELY work.
A summary of our findings from running the OpenSAFELY output checking service.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An outline the OpenSAFELY output checking service: who it involves, how our output checkers are trained and an overview of the output checking workflow.
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.
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.
Here we introduce the Bennett Institute’s NHS Service Analytics team, explaining who they are, what they do, and why it is important.
Here we introduce the Bennett Institute’s Epidemiology team, explaining who they are, what they do, and why it is important.
Our OpenSAFELY study comparing the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for protecting against covid-19 during the first booster programme in England is now published open-access in the BMJ.
Here we introduce the Bennett Institute’s Clinical Informatics team, explaining what they do and how their experience in NHS clinical practice helps them do this.
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.
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
Better and more efficient health science with reusable pipelines and cross-disciplinary expertise.
Taking a deeper look at the ‘Safe Outputs’ dimension of this framework, and how it is applied in OpenSAFELY.
