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Cardiovascular disease (CVD)-COVID-UK / COVID-IMPACT
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{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT is a major research programme coordinated by the BHF Data Science Centre, bringing together a consortium of over 400 researchers across more than 50 organisations. The programme enables analysis of de-identified, linked, nationally collated healthcare datasets across the UK to investigate the relationship between COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease, as well as its impact on other health conditions and risk factors. "}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT consortium follows a collaborative, transparent, and inclusive approach. All analysis plans, protocols, code, phenotype codelists, publications, and other outputs are publicly available through this Gateway collection. "}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Accredited researchers access data within secure data environments (SDEs) provided by NHS England in England, the National Data Safe Haven in Scotland, SAIL Databank in Wales and the Honest Broker Service in Northern Ireland. Patient data has all patient identifiers removed and never leaves the SDEs, and all projects must have approval from the relevant data custodians."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Linked datasets include those from primary and secondary care, COVID lab tests and vaccinations, deaths, critical care, prescribing/dispensing, cardiovascular and stroke audits, maternity services and mental health."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"More detail about CVD-COVID-UK / COVID-IMPACT, including a dashboard of datasets currently available in each nation's TRE, can be found at: "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https://bhfdatasciencecentre.org/areas/cvd-covid-uk-covid-impact/","target":"_blank","rel":"noopener noreferrer nofollow","class":null}}],"text":"https://bhfdatasciencecentre.org/areas/cvd-covid-uk-covid-impact/"}]},{"type":"paragraph"}]}