Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre
Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science, more. I run https://t.co/NsF4BBoZ5V making tools+papers from data https://t.co/v6679t19rv https://t.co/bGysxEAgnn
09-06-2007 23:51:43
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How do you identify whether an NHS patient in an NHS dataset is in a care home? IT IS NOT EASY. There are lots of methods. We compare them, using OpenSAFELY.org, for our covid work. The first of many fundamental papers coming about NHS data. On! wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/6-90/…
Ben Goldacre So hard that it has stalled our evaluation of the positive impact of providing remote care to care home residents. Deploying kit and training staff in a pandemic was hard, but easy compared to finding out what impact it has had on 999 calls, hospital admissions and discharges...
Luke Robinson Ben Goldacre Snap. We have deployed a lot of IT support to care homes in @KMhealthandcare but the measurement of benefits is difficult. We're now working with pilot PCNs and GPs to create good local data on remote consultations in a bid to create a new feed for our #kernel #linkeddataset .