EPIDEMIOLOGISTS

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WE ARE HIRING

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

How does our magical OpenSAFELY platform work?

Find out on BBC More or Less !

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EXTRAORDINARY JOB

3 year Oxford college post-doc fellowship at Jesus College Oxford doing YOUR own research programme in epidemiology, or open science, or data infrastructure, anything aligned to Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science work on OpenSAFELY OpenPrescribing FDAAA TrialsTracker and similar.

JOIN US!

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/2023/12/h…

Work with us!

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, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine EHR team, EMIS, NHS England and many more. Great friends and allies all! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2021/05/o…

NHS England 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 Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at OxPrimaryCareSci, University of Oxford.
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BIG NEWS on OpenSAFELY from us, NHS England, and Department of Health and Social Care

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!

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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!

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Fab blog by our PhD student, summarising the groups work using the OpenSAFELY research platform

Read our latest guest blog from BillyZhong, PhD and team, who have been using OpenSAFELY to research the impact of C19 on antimicrobial resistance.

A new analysis out today with 59 MILLION patients' data using OpenSAFELY on changes in antipsychotic prescribing during the pandemic. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/26/1/e…

How we have been able to safely access this data for research:

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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!

Read our latest in #pharmacological treatments: researchers explore whether the #COVID19 pandemic affected #antipsychotic prescribing in at-risk populations 👉 bit.ly/3EHQbjZ

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:

OPEN SOURCE WIN

Delighted to say that our OpenSAFELY has won a prestigious CogX Festival prize for Best Innovation in Open Source Technology.

You can read our entry here:

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But in summary.. (thread...)

Read all about it on our blog or in The British Journal of General Practice

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In OpenSAFELY we have a range of innovative tools that protect patients' privacy while analyses are being run on patients' data. But before results are released for publication, there is one, final, human check: manual Output Checking. How does it work? bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/series/ou…

NEW RESEARCH—Mark D Russell and colleagues assessed how the #COVID19 pandemic impacted incidence and quality of care for people with #gout in England, UK, using OpenSAFELY thelancet.com/journals/lanrh… James Galloway Katie Bechman