Ben CatchYourCough Goldacre
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BING BONG NEW PAPERNHS 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
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BING BONG NEW PAPERWe pulled together a huge team to look at how we can bring NHS data analysis into the 21st century. THREAD!https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0141076820930666 Academics love to run regression analyses
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Here's a post on the value and hazards of scientific preprints during Covid, from Science Media Centre. https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/what-should-press-officers-advise-on-preprints-during-a-pandemic/I HAVE THOUGHTS. brief thread...
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OUR NEW PAPER.Factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 MILLION adult NHS patients.Largest study of its kind ever, anywhere.The power of UK /
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The Covid pandemic poses a very interesting evidence-based policymaking challenge. Sorry, very busy, barely on twitter, but here's a mini splurge. There are legitimate questions about the strengths and weaknesses
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