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Evaluation of antithrombotic use and COVID-19 outcomes in a nationwide atrial fibrillation cohort

20 May 2022

Our Open Access Publication of the Month, May: Selected by the Impact Committee for its research excellence

Research Publications

We advance health data science by funding research that uses data at scale and by enabling others in our community to do the same.

Our vision is that every patient, clinical trial, biomedical...

Our Scientific Priorities

We are focusing our science strategy on priority areas that will have the maximum impact for the health of patients and populations across the UK. These prioritiy areas include The Human Phenome;...

How can we support adoption of the data use register standard?

4 April 2022

In January of 2022 the UK Health Data Research Alliance (the ‘Alliance’) published recommendations for a data use register standard. The standard outlines five recommendations to support data...

Discover Data on the Gateway

The Health Data Research Innovation Gateway (the 'Gateway') search engine or 'portal' provides a common entry point for researchers and innovators to discover and request access to health...

Trusted Research Environments

We are committed to enabling the trustworthy use of health data for research. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have championed and led the use of Trusted Research Environments (TREs) to enable...