@OpenSAFELY

OpenSAFELY is a secure analytics platform for NHS electronic health records. Team from @BennettOxford & @LSHTM

 Oxford, England
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Joined May 2020
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In 2020 me + @brianmackenna published a detailed paper in @bmj_latest describing how hospital medicines data in England was largely impossible to access for public good. Thousands of you engaged! xitter.cf/bengoldacre/status/129… What happened next? BLOG! + 🧵 bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/0…
Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre5 Aug 2020
BING BONG NEW PAPER NHS hospital medicines data is being collected, but then needlessly withheld from analysts. This means patients are exposed to sub-optimal treatment. And NHS money is being wasted. The barriers are NOT technical. They are "people". bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m260…

The NHS deserves better use of hospital medicines data

Ben Goldacre and Brian MacKenna argue that hospital medicines data has huge potential to improve patient care and that its use for public good is being blocked by cultural, contractual, and political...

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OpenSAFELY for retail data? Nice mention for our work on @BBCr4today from @HenryDimbleby yesterday. We built @OpenSAFELY: the new, super-secure platform for the NHS for health data. Can you use our approach - just enough access - on retail data? Yes! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/0…

OpenSAFELY for retail data? Every little helps | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Someone on the radio was musing about using retail data for health - we have some thoughts on that.

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New study from @BennettOxford using @OpenSAFELY finds lockdowns didn't significantly change opioid prescribing, but disparities in care persist. This near real-time data monitoring is vital for the NHS to make opioid use safer. @anschaf @TheLancetPH ow.ly/surn50SqFns

OpenSAFELY provides vital real-time data to support NHS ambition for safer opioid use

Amid concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic might have led to increases in opioid prescribing, a new study from researchers at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford,...

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Changes in #opioid prescribing during the #COVID-19 pandemic in England: an interrupted time-series analysis in the #OpenSAFELY-TTP cohort thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

Changes in opioid prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: an interrupted time-series...

Opioid prescribing increased temporarily among older people and care home residents, likely reflecting use to treat end-of-life COVID-19 symptoms. Despite vulnerable populations being more affected...

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EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DATA SCIENTISTS WE ARE HIRING Come work building and using @OpenSAFELY @openprescribing Open code and more bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/0…

Research vacancies | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

We’re hiring for our research teams

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DOACs at extremes of bodyweight. Ever wondered how many patients over <50kg & >120kg are prescribed DOACs IRL🧮🤔? The fantastic @PrescQIPP team used @OpenSAFELY to report DOACs💊monitoring & 👩‍⚕️prescribing pre/post pandemic from 20.5 million GP records! doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2023.0…

Safety of direct-acting oral anticoagulant (DOAC) prescribing: OpenSAFELY-TPP analysis of 20.5...

Background During the COVID-19 pandemic many patients were switched from warfarin to direct-acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs), which require the creatinine clearance (CrCl) calculated to ensure the...

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How does our magical @OpenSAFELY platform work? Find out on @BBCMoreOrLess ! bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5b7…

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data

Ben Goldacre on OpenSAFELY, protecting patient privacy while analysing health data

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EXTRAORDINARY JOB 3 year Oxford college post-doc fellowship at @JesusOxford doing YOUR own research programme in epidemiology, or open science, or data infrastructure, anything aligned to @BennettOxford work on @OpenSAFELY @openprescribing @FDAAAtracker and similar. JOIN US!
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We built a lovely tool that turns raw NHS GP records into analysis-ready datasets. How can we trust that it's working properly? By building automated tests around it. Mini thread... bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/1…

How we test ehrQL | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

How can you be confident that the queries you write will be correctly interpreted and return the expected results?

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Work with us!
Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre15 Dec 2023
EPIDEMIOLOGISTS and similar Job in @OpenSAFELY @BennettOxford @JesusOxford This is a PERSONAL FELLOWSHIP and you get a COLLEGE affiliation. So: YOUR brilliant research projects, 3 years, also you get the food, friendships and mediaeval lifestyle jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-c…
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This was an incredibly tall order, in a very difficult space. You can read about our early days here, featuring incredibly close collaboration alongside @TPP_SystmOne, @LSHTM EHR team, @EMISHealth, @NHSEngland and many more. Great friends and allies all! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2021/0…

OpenSAFELY: The Origin Story | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

On our first anniversary, from the Policy Lead in the Bennett Institute, this is the brief story of the positive side from all our lives: how OpenSAFELY came to life, and what we’ve achieved so far.

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@NHSEngland to expand use of the OpenSAFELY secure COVID-19 research platform to help find new treatments for major killer conditions. The @OpenSAFELY service was developed in collaboration with @BennettOxford at @OxPrimaryCare, @UniofOxford. . ow.ly/5v6l50Q9rHj

NHS to expand use of University of Oxford’s OpenSAFELY secure COVID-19 research platform to help...

The NHS is to expand the use of the OpenSAFELY research platform, behind the roll-out of new Covid-19 treatments, to help drive life-saving advances for other major diseases.

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BIG NEWS on @OpenSAFELY from us, @NHSEngland, and @DHSCgovuk I’m delighted to say OpenSAFELY’s future is now secure as NHS England infrastructure, and we will cautiously expand to cover non-COVID research areas. THREAD! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/1…

The future of OpenSAFELY: an important announcement from NHS England, DHSC and the Bennett Instit...

We are delighted to share the announcement from NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care below, setting out the future of OpenSAFELY.

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COME AND WORK WITH ME on OpenSAFELY.org and bennett.ox.ac.uk and open science and health data and protecting patients' privacy and MORE! jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-c…

OpenSAFELY - A platform for analysing large, sensitive datasets

OpenSAFELY is a platform for analysing large, sensitive datasets – safely and securely. OpenSAFELY is built by a team at the Bennett Institute.

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Dr V Palin@v1kki_p9 Oct 2023
Fab blog by our PhD student, summarising the groups work using the @OpenSAFELY research platform
Xiaomin(Billy) Zhong, PhD@BillyZhong2296 Oct 2023
Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on common infections: Treatment Pathways, Antibiotic Prescribing, and Exposure bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/1… via @BennettOxford

Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on common infections: Treatment Pathways, Antibiotic Prescribing,...

Xiaomin Zhong, Ya-Ting Yang, Dr Ali Fahmi, Dr Victoria Palin and Professor Tjeerd Van Staa from Manchester University have been using OpenSAFELY for analyses focused on the impact of COVID-19 on...

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Read our latest guest blog from @BillyZhong229 and team, who have been using OpenSAFELY to research the impact of C19 on antimicrobial resistance.
Xiaomin(Billy) Zhong, PhD@BillyZhong2296 Oct 2023
Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on common infections: Treatment Pathways, Antibiotic Prescribing, and Exposure bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/1… via @BennettOxford

Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on common infections: Treatment Pathways, Antibiotic Prescribing,...

Xiaomin Zhong, Ya-Ting Yang, Dr Ali Fahmi, Dr Victoria Palin and Professor Tjeerd Van Staa from Manchester University have been using OpenSAFELY for analyses focused on the impact of COVID-19 on...

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A new analysis out today with 59 MILLION patients' data using @OpenSAFELY on changes in antipsychotic prescribing during the pandemic. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content… How we have been able to safely access this data for research: opensafely.org/about/ bennett.ox.ac.uk/opensafely/

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in individuals with autism, dementia,...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic affected how care was delivered to vulnerable patients, such as those with dementia or learning disability.Objective To explore whether this affected antipsychotic...

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Our latest federated analysis across 59million peoples NHS records is out now! Read the paper - we'll blog more next week!
BMJ Mental Health@BMJMentalHealth18 Sep 2023
Read our latest in #pharmacological treatments: researchers explore whether the #COVID19 pandemic affected #antipsychotic prescribing in at-risk populations 👉 bit.ly/3EHQbjZ
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Read our latest in #pharmacological treatments: researchers explore whether the #COVID19 pandemic affected #antipsychotic prescribing in at-risk populations 👉 bit.ly/3EHQbjZ
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Dave Evans@_EvansD22 Sep 2023
This is the thing I've been working on for what feels approximately like forever, but is finally being used for real in the wild. The hardest and most fun code I've ever written:
Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre21 Sep 2023
HEALTH DATA GEEKS! We have developed a portable language for electronic health record data preparation, to meet our needs (for our federated analyses across 58m patients' GP data!) but also to be terse, composable, readable, and.. constrained BUT flexible bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/0…

Why ehrQL? | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Why did we create a new query language?

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