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OpenSAFELY

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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]

References

  1. ^ "The pandemic has spawned a new way to study medical records", The Economist, 14 May 2020