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This article is about the medical records statistical platform. For the machinery communication protocol, see OpenSAFETY.

OpenSAFELY is an interface to NHS patient records which enables statistical analysis of them by medical researchers. Initially, it has been used to make an analysis of the risk factors associated with deaths from COVID-19 in hospital in the UK. This is significant because the dataset is especially large – 20 billion rows of data for about 24 million patients.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "The pandemic has spawned a new way to study medical records", The Economist, 14 May 2020
  2. ^ Liam Smeeth; Ben Goldacre (7 May 2020), OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients (PDF)


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