Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
In this blog post Millie Green shares some of the findings from a federated analysis carried out using OpenSAFELY.
In this blog we explain what codelists are, how they are constructed and review existing literature on construction processes.
Why did we create a new query language?
The OpenSAFELY Collaborative has won a prestigious CogX Award for the Best Innovation in Open Source Technology
In this blog we describe how to use and access the NHS England Medicines Optimisation Oppurtunitites dashboard on OpenPrescribing
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.
Here we introduce the Bennett Institute’s Information Governance team, explaining who they are, and what they do.
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.
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.
