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The papers, reports and preprints listed below have been supported by the BHF Data Science Centre.

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Cardiovascular imaging research priorities. Openheart

Background: Two interlinked surveys were organised by the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, which aimed to establish national priorities for cardiovascular imaging research.

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Antipsychotic drug prescribing and mortality in people with dementia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study in Wales, UK. Lancet

Authors: Dillon Woods, Jason Simon, Lester Finch et al.

Lancet,

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Hospital admissions linked to SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents: cohort study of 3.2 million first ascertained infections in England.

Authors: Melissa, Ian, Georgia et al.

BMJ,

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Antipsychotic prescribing and mortality in people with dementia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective cohort study. medRxiv

Project: CCU016_01: Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases related to antipsychotic prescribing in patients with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Risk of cardiovascular events following COVID-19 in people with and without pre-existing chronic respiratory disease. medRxiv

Project: CCU035_01: SARS-CoV-2 infection and risk of major vascular events in people with chronic respiratory diseases

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Use of NHS Digital datasets as trial data in the UK: a position paper. Zenodo

Background: Clinical trial teams increasingly want to make use of data from healthcare systems (“healthcare data”), particularly to enhance recruitment and follow-up of participants, to reduce time and cost, and to stop the duplication of effort. However, there is continued uncertainty of how regulators regard healthcare data used for trial purposes, in terms of provenance, quality and reliability.

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Charting a Course for Smartphones and Wearables to Transform Population Health Research. Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: The use of data from smartphones and wearable devices has huge potential for population health research, given the high level of device ownership; the range of novel health-relevant data types available from consumer devices; and the frequency and duration with which data are, or could be, collected.

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Harmonising electronic health records for reproducible research: challenges, solutions and recommendations from a UK-wide COVID-19 research collaboration. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Project: Harmonising electronic health records for reproducible research: challenges, solutions and recommendations from a UK-wide COVID-19 research collaboration

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