OpenPathology aims to make an innovative new tool showing comparative data on pathology test requests made by GPs.
It aims to:
- Build infrastructure to securely import, store and analyse pathology datasets;
- Normalise the data;
- Create a website to appropriately display data on testing rates for each major test type;
- Create standard measures with clinicians;
- Deploy and iteratively improve throughout agile development cycles.
Latest OpenPathology blog posts
OpenPathology
This is the code related to our OpenPathology project. Specifically this repo stores ad-hoc analyses, papers, and related research. The code for the website (and online tool, when developed) are in their own repository.
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Bennett Institute – What We Did Last Year!
Most people share their end of year roundup during late December when everyone is too full of cake to read. Now you’re back in the saddle, here’s our roundup of everything the Bennett Institute threw out into the world over the previous 12 months! OpenPrescribing OpenPrescribing.net went from strength to strength, with over 135,000 unique users last year. We now have over 80 measures of prescribing safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness and have been working on new types of measures and alerts to identify “outlier” prescribing, such as with zuclopenthixol.
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OpenPathology: Issues with reference ranges — Part 3
This is the third instalment in our series of commentaries on using reference ranges to interpret pathology test results. Reference ranges vary between labs Classically, the reference range is defined statistically: it is the interval within which 95% of the values of a healthy reference population fall into. Therefore 2.5% of the time, healthy people will have (for example) haemoglobin concentrations less than the lower limit, and 2.5% of the time it will be over the upper limit.
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Better use of data and digital offer rapid opportunities to address covid-19
COVID-19 digital and data BMJ Blog
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- Open Working
- OpenPathology
- OpenSAFELY
- Policy Insights
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Practice variation in the use of tests in UK primary care: a retrospective analysis of 16 million tests performed over 3.3 million patient years in 2015/16
Tests in primary care paper
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- OpenPathology
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Optimising laboratory monitoring of chronic conditions in primary care: a quality improvement framework
BMJ quality OpenPath paper
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- OpenPathology
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Temporal trends in use of tests in UK primary care, 2000-15: retrospective analysis of 250 million tests
BMJ Tests in primary care paper
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- OpenPathology