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Case Studies

Case study examples of how we have enabled research across the UK.

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Lancashire Data Science Team harmonises 2.3 million patient records to improve health outcomes

25 September 2024

Winners of the HDR UK Team of the Year award in 2024, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals’ Data Science Team aims high with data harmonisation, health data research and Secure Data Environment...

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Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil: innovative community engagement approaches

28 August 2024

The DP-EFFECT project, part of the International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) initiative, looked at the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in Brazil.

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Impact of COVID-19 containment policies on health service delivery and mortality in ten countries.

19 August 2024

The DP-REHCORD project, part of the International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) initiative, explored how COVID-19 containment policies such as lockdowns affected health services for other diseases.

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Assessing and improving ethnicity data in England health records

7 August 2024

Ethnicity data from general practice and hospital records of more than 60 million people in England has been studied in detail in for the first time.

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Discovering the long-term health toll of heart attacks

16 July 2024

Heart attack survivors are at greater long-term risk of heart and kidney failure and death, a study in 56 million people has shown.

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Green Algorithms: Making computational science more environmentally sustainable

16 May 2024

A research team has developed an online calculator to help scientists easily estimate the carbon footprint of a computation.

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Using AI to identify hip migration in children with cerebral palsy

8 May 2024

Researchers have developed an AI tool that automatically measures hip migration in X-ray images, enabling more timely interventions for children with cerebral palsy.

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Insights from linking police domestic abuse data and health data in South Wales, UK

22 January 2024

This study from Kennedy et al was selected by the HDR UK Impact Committee.

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Understanding genetic diversity through RNA data to inform future research

22 January 2024

This study from Fachrul et al was selected by the HDR UK Impact Committee.

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