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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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An Update on Our Co-piloting Programme: What's New?
As a team of co-pilots, we regularly take time to discuss how co-piloted projects are going and what we can do to help pilots and co-pilots make the most of their time together.
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Conducting Research Using OpenSAFELY: My Experience of the Co-pilot Service
Rachel Seeley is the Head of Analytics at PrescQIPP CIC and has recently completed a project in OpenSAFELY on the safer use of anticoagulant medication. In this guest blog, Rachel describes her experience with using the OpenSAFELY platform and our co-pilot programme.
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Identifying over prescribed chemicals: a data-driven approach to mining prescription data
One of our key aims at Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science is to develop novel data-driven approaches to interpret our health care data. We want to use data science to identify patterns in the data that afford us a new, unbiased perspective on how well the NHS is working and how it could be better.
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Difference between BNF, dm+d and SNOMED CT codes
Bennett Institute resident pharmacist Brian MacKenna sets out some brief information on how we currently build medicines codelists on OpenSAFELY.
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First Impressions of the EU CTIS Registry
The Clinical Trial Information System (CTIS) is the European Union’s new registry set to fully replace the existing EU Clinical Trials Registry next year. Nick DeVito decided to take a spin through the registry and record some of his initial thoughts.
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Making TREs the default across the NHS: A first step
In June 2022, the NHS published its new data strategy Data Saves Lives. The strategy is a broad ranging document, covering seven ‘key areas’.
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National Data Guardian report cites and reinforces Bennett Institute work on building public trust in use of data for research
Building a strong case for the broader adoption and use of Trusted Research Environments across the NHS.
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Bennett Insights: An Overview of UK Data Policy Developments
An overview of the UK Government’s nine data policy documents published April - July 2022.
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OpenPrescribing June 2022 Newsletter
Our latest newsletter including information on: Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, we are recruiting, Goldacre Review, updated Outlier Dashboards, recent changes to OpenPrescribing Measures, OpenSAFELY news, and new data news.
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Better, Broader, Safer Uses of Data Help Data Saves Lives
Today the NHS has published the final version of it’s “Data Saves Lives” strategy, setting out its key commitments in seven key areas
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Identifying outlier prescribing behaviour: how is your practice unusual?
We have a new tool available at OpenPrescribing: our outlier prescribing dashboards will show you what your favourite CCG, PCN, STP or practice are prescribing more (or less) than everyone else. Read more about how it works and how to use it here.
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Goldacre Review outlines how to achieve better, broader, and safer use of health data for research and analysis
Over the past year Ben and our policy lead Jess, have conducted interviews with over 300 individuals, held 8 open focus groups, reviewed over 100 written submissions, and conducted extensive desk research, to reach the conclusions that were published yesterday in the Goldacre Review.
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Invitation: CIPHA-OpenSAFELY Introduction Event
CIPHA and OpenSAFELY are hosting an introduction event for researchers in the North West of England who would like to work with CIPHA data using OpenSAFELY.