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Case Studies

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

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Using AI to make medical records more accurate and help hospitals plan services

13 April 2023

With only 20% of patient health information previously recorded digitally, researchers realised they needed a system that could make health records more useful to hospitals to improve care.

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Building a library for sharing tools to analyse health records

6 April 2023

HDR UK has created a library that is already improving the quality of research by enabling researchers to share and analyse different phenotypes.

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Four-nations study showed vaccine protection against severe COVID-19 outcomes wanes over time

28 February 2023

Researchers, part of the EAVE II programme, analysed data from 12.9 million individuals across the UK to explore the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Vital research that helped identify the priority groups for COVID-19 boosters

28 February 2023

Research part-funded by HDR UK provided a detailed population-level analysis which was invaluable in guiding vaccine prioritisation decisions.

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Feasibility and ethics of using data from the Scottish newborn blood spot archive for research

28 February 2023

The HDR UK Impact Commitee selected a paper by Cunningham-Burley et al as the Open Impact Publication of the Month.

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New research questions reliability of studies into Lassa fever drug

28 February 2023

Researchers identified and re-analysed a series of studies to assess the reliability of the evidence backing the use of ribavirin as a treatment for Lassa fever.

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CogStack information retrieval and extraction platform gives access to underused data

27 February 2023

CogStack represents a major advance in the capacity to extract and analyse unstructured data from electronic health records (EHRs). It uses a range of technologies to support modern open-source...

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Biobank conversion allows greater UK contribution to international research

21 February 2023

A team of researchers processed and converted over 1.3 billion rows of UK Biobank data to the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) common data model (CDM), improving its usability for...

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Multi-generational households, living alone and ethnicity – older people and the risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes

21 February 2023

Researchers carried out an analysis of older people and the risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes using the OpenSAFELY research platform

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