Papers

Showing 144 published or preprint papers authored by the Bennett Institute.

  1. Identification of patients undergoing chronic kidney replacement therapy in primary and secondary care data

    Identification of people receiving chronic kidney replacement therapy using primary and secondary care records compared with gold standard registry data.

    Status: Published

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    • OpenSAFELY
  2. The impact of COVID-19 on azathioprine, leflunomide and methotrexate monitoring, and factors associated with change in monitoring rate

    This study investigated whether disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) safety monitoring was affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, with additional focus on effects within key health inequality groups.

    Status: Published

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  3. The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care

    This study investigated whether the rate of medication reviews in primary care were affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, with breakdown by regional, clinical and demographic subgroups.

    Status: Published

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  4. Comparative safety and effectiveness of Pfizer BA.4-5 versus Sanofi during the spring 2023 COVID-19 booster vaccination programme in England

    A comparison of the Pfizer BA.4-5 and Sanofi vaccines for protecting against Covid-19 during Spring 2023 booster programme in England

    Status: Preprint

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  5. Changes in opioid prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic in England

    This study described changes in prevalent and new opioid prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic, overall, among people in care homes, and stratified by demographics.

    Status: Preprint

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    • OpenSAFELY
  6. Measuring BMI in 22 million patients in England

    This study describes the use of four derivations of BMI in OpenSAFELY.

    Status: Published

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    • OpenSAFELY
  7. Safety of direct-acting oral anticoagulant (DOAC) prescribing

    This study aimed to identify the proportion of those prescribed a DOAC with recorded: weight, estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR), creatinine, creatinine clearance (CrCl) and atrial fibrillation (AF). In those with recorded AF and CrCl prescribed the study aimed to identify the proportion with a recommended DOAC dose.

    Status: Published

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  8. OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research

    This paper describes OpenSAFELY's reproducibility-by-design approach in detail.

    Status: Preprint

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  9. Trends in inequalities in avoidable hospitalisations across the COVID-19 pandemic

    We determine whether periods of disruption were associated with increased ‘avoidable’ hospital admissions and wider social inequalities in England.

    Status: Published

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  10. Educational interventions delivered to prescribing advisers to influence primary care prescribing: a very low-cost pragmatic randomised trial using routine data from OpenPrescribing.net

    A low cost randomised trial of an educational intervention in CCGs to influence prescribing of low-priority items

    Status: Preprint

    Categories

    • OpenPrescribing
  11. Ursodeoxycholic acid and severe COVID-19 outcomes in people with liver disease

    Cohort study investigating whether ursodeoxycholic acid was associated with COVID-19 related hospitalisation and death in people with primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis.

    Status: Preprint

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    • OpenSAFELY
  12. Impact of COVID-19 on mental illness in vaccinated and unvaccinated people

    This study examined associations of COVID-19 with subsequent mental illness in the pre-vaccination period of the pandemic and for unvaccinated and vaccinated people after vaccination became available.

    Status: Preprint

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  13. Clinical and health inequality risk factors for non-COVID-related sepsis during the global COVID-19 pandemic

    We used OpenSAFELY-TPP data to elucidate the association between non-Covid-19 related sepsis and a range of risk factors during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Status: Published

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  14. Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records

    We describe the completeness and consistency of primary care ethnicity recording in the OpenSAFELY-TPP database, containing linked primary care and hospital records in >25 million patients in England. We also compared the ethnic breakdown in OpenSAFELY-TPP with that of the 2021 UK census.

    Status: Preprint

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  15. 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
  16. 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

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  17. Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak

    This study described the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Group A streptococcal (GAS) cases and related antibiotic prescriptions.

    Status: Preprint

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY
  18. The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care

    This study investigated whether the rate of medication reviews in primary care were affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, with breakdown by regional, clinical and demographic subgroups.

    Status: Preprint

    Categories

    • OpenSAFELY