Researchers find that 36% fewer people were admitted to hospital in Wales and Scotland in the first lockdown due to asthma. A study from researchers from the Population Data Science group based at Swansea University Medical School has found that the first lockdown was associated with a 36% pooled reduction in emergency admissions for asthma….
While the total number of people vaccinated for COVID-19 is widely reported, there are many important questions about the real-world effectiveness of the vaccines on different population groups, their impact of the disease transmission and how vaccines will affect the course of the pandemic that require access to crucial real-world data on vaccine delivery, infections…
The Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank and its technology infrastructure platform, Secure eResearch Platform (SeRP), based in Population Data Science at Swansea University, is a partner of the Wales Networked Data Lab (NDL) site enabling access and safe use of data to answer important questions posed by the network and its partners. Funded by…
One of the features that sets the SAIL Databank apart is the ability for researchers to be truly flexible in where they access their anonymised data. Through processes and technological developments crafted over the last 10 years, SAIL has perfected access to secure research without compromise to security, data quality or user experience. But what…
This analysis of prescription records for over 100,000 pregnancies found that women who stopped their asthma medicines during pregnancy were at increased risk of preterm birth and not breastfeeding at 6-8 weeks, whereas women who continued with their inhaled corticosteroids were at lower risk. Prescriptions records could be used to identify the women who need…
Swansea University has received £125k of funding from Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) to study the impact of the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 on cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Published in BJPsych Open, this research collaboration involved teams from the Population Mental Health at Population Data Science, Swansea University Medical School and the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University.
In this article, members of the Family Justice Data Partnership, Dr Linda Cusworth (Research Fellow in the Centre for Child and Family Justice Research at Lancaster University) and Alex Lee (Research Officer in Population Data Science at Swansea University) present a series of maps and consider rates of public and private law cases in Wales.
SAIL Databank’s Senior Research Manager and Data Scientist, Ashley Akbari, speaks to DHEW about how the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) technology behind the SAIL Databank is supporting the One Wales response.
As cases of Covid-19 increased in the UK, access to timely data was, and continues to be, a fundamental part of understanding and tackling the virus for those working within policy and research.
