Papers
Showing 161 published or preprint papers authored by the Bennett Institute.
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Interpreting pathology test result values with comparators (<, >) in Electronic Health Records research
A short data report about comparators in pathology test results
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Antibiotics for Common Infections in Primary Care Before, During and after the COVID-19 Pandemic and Extent of Risk-Based Prescribing: Need for Personalised Guidelines
We assessed the changes in risk-based prescribing behaviours of antibiotics for common infections in primary care during the Covid-19 pandemic
Status: Preprint
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- OpenSAFELY
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of common infections in primary care and the change to antibiotic prescribing in England
We studied how antibiotic precribing for common infections in primary changed duding the Covid-19 pandemic and how this may have affected clincial outcomes
Status: Published
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in individuals with autism, dementia, learning disability, serious mental illness or living in a care home
We describe the impact of the the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in those with autism, dementia, learning disability, serious mental illness or living in a care home.
Status: Published
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Effect of the 2022 COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign in 50 year olds in England
This study evaluated the effectiveness of the 2022 autumn COVID-19 booster campaign in 50 year olds in England using a regression discontinuity design.
Status: Preprint
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Challenges in Estimating the Effectiveness of 2 Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Beyond 6 Months in England
This paper discusses the challenges in estimating long-term (>6 months) vaccine effectiveness in observational data, primarily due to high uptake of a subsequent third vaccine dose.
Status: Published
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Gout incidence and management during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, UK
Assessing how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted incidence and quality of care for people with gout in England, UK.
Status: Published
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Healthcare in England was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic across the pancreatic cancer pathway
The pandemic affected healthcare in England across the pancreatic cancer pathway. Positive lessons could be learnt from the services that were resilient and those that recovered quickly
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Living alone and mental health: parallel analyses in UK longitudinal population surveys and electronic health records prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic
People living alone have poorer mental health and lower life satisfaction. During the pandemic, this gap in self-reported distress remained; however, there was a narrowing of the gap in service use.
Status: Published
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Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19
This paper presents an important effort to develop an open-source software framework for monitoring trends and variations in healthcare over time in England. They demonstrate a compelling example of how this system can track key healthcare indicators over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Status: Published
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Evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admission related to common infections
We studied the changes in hospital admission rates for common infections during the Covid-19 pandemic, for those having and having not received antibiotic prescriptions in primary care
Status: Preprint
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- OpenSAFELY
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Repeated antibiotic exposure and risk of hospitalisation and death following COVID-19 infection
We examined whether prior frequent antibiotic exposure is associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes.
Status: Published
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Ethnic differences in the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical monitoring and hospitalisations for non-COVID conditions in England
We aimed to describe the impact of pandemic-related disruption on ethnic differences in clinical monitoring and hospital admissions for non-COVID conditions in England.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Patient characteristics associated with clinically coded long COVID: an OpenSAFELY study using electronic health records
This study investigated patient characteristics associated with clinically coded long COVID from 29 January 2020 to 31 March 2022.
Status: Preprint
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- OpenSAFELY
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Patient Characteristics Associated with Repeat Antibiotic Prescribing Pre- and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
With the approval of NHS England, we conducted a retrospective cohort study of >19 million English primary care patient records using the OpenSAFELY-TPP analytics platform. We analysed repeat/non-repeat prescribing frequency in monthly patient cohorts between January 2020 and 2022.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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A National Audit of Pancreatic Enzyme Prescribing in Pancreatic Cancer from 2015 to 2023 in England
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on PERT prescribing to people with unresectable pancreatic cancer and to investigate the national and regional rates from January 2015 to January 2023.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY
This study aimed to implement complex, PINCER (pharmacist led information technology intervention) prescribing indicators, on a national scale with general practice data to describe the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on safe prescribing.
Status: Published
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- OpenSAFELY
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Effectiveness of Sotrovimab and Molnupiravir in community settings in England across the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 sublineages
We used the OpenSAFELY platform to emulate target trials to estimate the effectiveness of sotrovimab or molnupiravir, versus no treatment.
Status: Preprint
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- OpenSAFELY