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Creating a near real-time monitoring dashboard for medication dispensing during COVID-19 using SAIL Databank.

COVID-19 has led to substantial changes in community pharmacy drug dispensing patterns. Measures for keeping the spread of the COVID-19 virus under control resulted in many face-to-face activities moving to online and telephone consultations unless necessary. Many individuals experienced this change in their routine interaction with clinical services such as blood tests, repeated medication, GP…

Blog: COVID-19 mitigation measures in primary schools and association with infection and school staff wellbeing: An observational survey linked with routine data in Wales, UK

School-based COVID-19 mitigation strategies such as wearing face coverings, two-metre distancing and minimising pupil mixing greatly impacted the primary school day. Researchers in Population Data Science at Swansea University explored how these mitigation measures were associated with COVID-19 infection, respiratory infection, and school staff wellbeing. The study, supported by ADR Wales and Health Data Research…

Blog: Effects of sex and depression on achieving lipid reduction targets in patients at high-risk of coronary heart disease.

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…

SAIL Databank announces an inaugural cohort of budding student researchers

Population Data Science at Swansea University and its component teams and groups have an important role in supporting and training the next generation of researchers and data scientists and building the workforce capacity for future research success in this field. We work closely between our Centre’s of Excellence and other leaders such as Administrative Data…

Research Unwrapped podcast – Dr Michaela James and Dr Emily Marchant chat about their PhD Journeys

Research Unwrapped, is the podcast series that highlights topics and research coming out of the National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research. In this first episode host Michael Parker, a research student at the Centre talks to Centre researchers Dr Michaela James and Dr Emily Marchant about their PhD Journeys.  The podcast sees them share the challenges, rewards, hints and tips and…

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