Papers
Showing 154 published or preprint papers authored by the Bennett Institute.
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Safety of COVID-19 vaccination and acute neurological events
This paper investigates the potential association of COVID-19 vaccination with three acute neurological events: Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), transverse myelitis and Bell’s palsy.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Impact of First UK COVID-19 Lockdown on Hospital Admissions
This study used OpenSAFELY (on behalf of NHS England), EAVEII (Scotland) and SAIL Databank (Wales) to investigate the weekly hospital admission rates for cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions (excluding COVID-19) broken down by disease, sex, socioeconomic group and ethnicity group in a federated analysis across England, Scotland and Wales.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Accident and emergency (AE) attendance in England following infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron or Delta
We estimate the risk of accident and emergency (AE) attendance following confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 infection in England, comparing infection with Omicron to Delta
Status: Preprint
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- OpenSAFELY
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Rates of serious clinical outcomes in survivors of hospitalisation with COVID-19 in England
Patients with COVID-19 are thought to be at higher risk of cardiometabolic and pulmonary complications, but quantification of that risk is limited. Working on behalf of NHS England, this study aimed to describe the overall burden of these complications in survivors of severe COVID-19 using OpenSAFELY.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Comparison of methods for predicting COVID-19-related death in the general population using the OpenSAFELY platform
This paper evaluate different methods for predicting COVID-19-related death using the OpenSAFELY platform
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing of DOACs to people with mechanical heart valves
We conducted a retrospective cohort study of DOAC prescribing in people with a record of a mechanical heart valve between September 2019 and May 2021, and describe the characteristics of this population.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Overall and cause-specific hospitalisation and death after COVID-19 hospitalisation
This paper investigates whether risks of hospital admission and death, overall and by specific cause, are raised following discharge from a COVID-19 hospitalisation.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Mortality among Care Home Residents in England during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper describe trends in the mortality risk among residents of care homes compared to private homes during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in England.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 1: primary care clinical activity in England during the first wave of COVID-19
Working on behalf of NHS England, this study used the OpenSAFELY platform to describe the volume and variation of coded clinical activity in general practice between January 2019 and September 2020, taking respiratory disease and laboratory procedures as examples.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Trends and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients
Vaccine coverage and time trends across a range of demographic and fine-grained clinical subgroups in eight Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) priority cohorts.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Impact of national guidance on switching anticoagulant therapy during COVID-19 pandemic
This paper describes which people were switched from warfarin to DOACs during the COVID-19 pandemic following an update in national guidance
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care
Working on behalf of NHS England, this paper used the OpenSAFELY platform to measure the proportion of people with a recorded code for long COVID, overall and by demographic factors, electronic health record software system, and week.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Association between warfarin and COVID-19-related outcomes compared with direct oral anticoagulants
This paper conducted a population-based cohort study investigating the association between warfarin and COVID-19 outcomes compared with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs).
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Severity of Severe Acute Respiratory System Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Alpha Variant (B.1.1.7) in England
This paper aims to describe the severity of the alpha variant in terms of the pathway of disease from testing positive to hospital admission and death.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Risks of covid-19 hospital admission and death for people with learning disability
Working on behalf of NHS England, this paper used the OpenSAFELY platform to assess the association between learning disability and risk of hospitalisation and mortality from COVID-19 in England among adults and children.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Factors associated with deaths due to COVID-19 versus other causes
We aimed to investigate how specific factors are differentially associated with COVID-19 mortality as compared to mortality from causes other than COVID-19.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related hospitalisation, intensive care unit admission, and death in 17 million adults in England
Working on behalf of NHS England, this paper used the OpenSAFELY platform to quantify ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 outcomes during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in England.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Identifying Care Home Residents in Electronic Health Records
This short data report describes the partial overlap between three methods for identifying care home residents in EHR, and provides detailed instructions for how to implement these in OpenSAFELY-TPP to support research into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on care home residents.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY