A new study has revealed that people living in the most deprived areas were nearly two and a half times more likely to need a hip replacement but far less likely to receive the treatment than their more affluent counterparts. The research included analysis of the number of hip replacement procedures carried out for patients…
First published by Public Health Wales on 20th July 2022 The Networked Data Lab Wales (NDL Wales) has shown the potential of linked data in their latest study by bringing together data from across the emergency care system to better understand children and young people’s mental health in Wales. Funded by the Health Foundation, NDL…
Health Data Research (HDR) UK has recently announced a £2.5m investment as part of its strategic mission to unite the UK’s health data. The fund will support 12 collaborative projects across the UK. These projects will include capacity building efforts to train future health data scientists, developing and harmonising open data resources, and building on…
Researchers from Population Data Science at Swansea University Medical School are working with a team led by the University of Southampton and also involving King’s College London, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Aberdeen. This new multidisciplinary, multicentre centre project Multidisciplinary Ecosystem to study Lifecourse Determinants and Prevention of Early-onset Burdensome Multimorbidity (MELD-B)…
Welsh researchers are part of a European team awarded funding to create an app that will help terminally ill cancer patients to make informed decisions about their medication. Many patients with cancer receive medication to reduce the ability of the blood to clot, reducing the risk of thrombosis. These medications, known as antithrombotics, is often…
The Population Data Science group at Swansea University is to collaborate on a new study led by Loughborough University and the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, that will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities utilising the Wales national Trusted Research Environment (TRE) The SAIL Databank. About 1…
The SAIL Databank analytical services team was established in 2014 to support SAIL Databank users. Over time their services and experience has grown to become an interdisciplinary group of data scientists that collaborate with internal and external research groups on various projects. The team lead SAIL Databank’s own methodological research projects in developing new methods…
There were over a thousand fewer new cases of bowel, breast and lung cancers diagnosed in Wales in 2020, compared to 2019, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Cancer this month. This is equivalent to a 15 per cent reduction in the diagnosis of these common cancers. Researchers analysed NHS…
Population Data Science at Swansea University Medical School is delighted to announce its 13th Centre of Excellence – DATA-CAN – The Health Data Research Hub for Cancer. DATA-CAN is a UK-wide partnership which aims to improve care and outcomes for people with cancer by making high quality health data more accessible in a secure and…
Researchers have examined whether sex and depression might influence how effectively blood lipids are treated in high-risk heart disease patients. Lipids are blood fats that, amongst other substances, include cholesterol and triglycerides. They looked at whether lipid levels were checked and if so whether guideline target levels for lipids were achieved through the prism of…
