1 in 3 older people fall each year, with potentially devastating impact on independence, and >£2Bn NHS cost. Please read about our National Institute for Health and Care Research to support proactive falls prevention using novel prediction modelling - full paper at academic.oup.com/ageing/article… British Geriatrics Society NIHR Yorkshire & Humber ARC

Are you or someone you know interested in getting a PhD in Numerical Linear Algebra? I am looking for a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology: chalmers.se/en/about-chalm… There are also open positions in other areas of mathematics: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I003/304/j…

***Job Opportunity** Research Associate in Medical Statistics working on clinical prediction models at the University of Manchester. Come and join our prediction group and work on cancer risk prediction in children and young people. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Today the PREDICT project starts led by Samuel Relton looking to investigate temporal drift in clinical prediction models and feed into regulatory policy decisions around AI deployment github.com/sdrelton/PREDI…

*new paper* Computer vision in Clinical Neurology: a review led by Maximilian U. Friedrich (with Dave Wong , Samuel Relton, Prof Jane Alty) jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Join Andrew Clegg in our next seminar for a discussion of their work developing the second version of the Electronic Frailty Index, used to identify frailty in older people 🗓️ Monday 31 March 🕰️ 12:45 (UK time) 📍 LSHTM | Online More details ⬇️ lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve…

Big day today!! Our NIHR Yorkshire & Humber ARC eFI2 study published in Age_and_Ageing academic.oup.com/ageing/article… National implementation will support proactive care for older people to maximise independence leeds.ac.uk/main-index/new… Fab team Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research Centre for Ageing Population Studies (CAPS) NIHR Leeds BRC Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) British Geriatrics Society

The DynAIRx Project Protocol: Artificial Intelligence for dynamic prescribing optimisation and care integration in multimorbidity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26… #BGSconf

New paper using temporal graph neural networks with electronic healthcare records to predict joint replacement led by ZLHancox doi.org/10.1093/rheuma…

Very exciting to begin work on improving diagnosis of MND with a great team from Leeds Hospitals Trust and the university (Samuel Relton , Health Services Research @ Leeds)

Last night group member Samuel Relton was on the Pint of Science UK panel for Digital Health and AI. Some fantastic questions from the crowd about ethics, accountability, and health inequalities!

ICYMI - our new paper explaining how small sample sizes negatively impact the quality and performance of clinical prediction models in AI-based healthcare

We are looking for a Research Fellow in Qualitative Research 👀 Contribute to National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded research investigating ethnicity-based inequities in TIA (mini-stroke) care 🗓️ Application Deadline: 02/07/2025 👉 Apply: jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

NEW PREPRINT "Critical Appraisal of Fairness Metrics in Clinical Predictive AI" -> arxiv.org/abs/2506.17035 We identified 62 fairness metrics (& growing) - unsurprisingly it's all a bit of a mess...with most metrics not fit for purpose #predictiveAI #fairness #machinelearning

In 2016, our journal, Age_and_Ageing, published the Electronic Frailty Index. It was highly influential and is used across the NHS to identify frailty within a population. This revolutionary has been updated, with the Electronic Frailty Index 2 (eFI2)! buff.ly/d2K5abr

Don’t miss our SIG on Big Data open meeting happening tomorrow❗ We’ll be discussing how to develop an electronic frailty index using routine data. Participate online 👉 bit.ly/4nrwIJy #EuGMS #SIG #BigData #GeriatricMedicine #HealthyAgeing #Frailty Samuel Relton Oliver Todd

Great advance in identification of risk of adverse events such as hospital admission with a fall or fracture, needing residential or home care - allowing targeted prevention. Proactive Care just moved up a gear! Game changing work from Andrew Clegg Simon Conroy and colleagues

New The British Journal of General Practice editorial to improve understanding of the eFI2 tool for routine frailty identification & management in primary care bjgp.org/content/75/755… Original Age_and_Ageing eFI2 paper available here academic.oup.com/ageing/article… British Geriatrics Society NIHR Yorkshire & Humber ARC NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames Community Health Services

Cardiac contractility index helps stratify risk in HFPEF and patients with normal EF Sam Straw Olly Brown Stephe Kamalathasan Maria Ruth Burgess💙 Mike Drozd Tom Slater Samuel Relton Eylem Aslan-Levelt Dr Klaus Witte MD Richard Cubbon John Gierula PhD #AHAJournals ahajrnls.org/3VUZmWU

New paper on frequent attenders of emergency departments within the UK using national data. Some interesting implications for future care and service management! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/10/… #healthai Akshay Kumar Health Services Research @ Leeds