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Health And Social Care Northern Ireland Honest Broker Service

Introduction

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COVID antigen testing - Pillar 1

Dataset population size: Unknown

Health and disease, Measurements/Tests

Patient Medical Card Registration (NI)

Dataset population size: 2,000,000

Health and disease, Registry

SARS-CoV-2 viral sequencing data (COG-UK data) - Lineage/Variant Data - NI

Dataset population size: Unknown

Health and disease, Treatments/Interventions

Mortality (Death registration)

Dataset population size: 16,000

Health and disease, Registry

COVID antigen testing - Pillar 2

Dataset population size: Unknown

Health and disease, Measurements/Tests

Admissions and Discharges

Dataset population size: Unknown

Health and disease, Treatments/Interventions

Queen's University Belfast

National Core Study - Data and Connectivity: COVID-19 Vaccines Pharmacovigilance (DaC-VaP)

Queen's University Belfast

COVID-19 impact in those with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) and neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) in Northern Ireland: exploring COVID-19 on the health outcomes: patterns of hospitalisation and medication use, rates of suicide/suicidal behaviour, treatment and mortality - associated with service access for people with SMI and the general hospital population

Ulster University

Impact of COVID-19 on mental health in Northern Ireland

Queen's University Belfast

CovPall-Connect. Evaluation of the COVID-19 pandemic response in palliative and end of life care: Connecting to boost impact and data assets.

King's College London, University of York

COVID-19 and Deprivation in Northern Ireland

Economic and Social Research Institute

Local prevalence of transmissible SARS-CoV-2 infection: an integrative causal model for debiasing fine-scale targeted testing data

Nicholson G, Lehmann B, Padellini T, Pouwels KB, Jersakova R, Lomax J, King RE, Mallon A, Diggle PJ, Richardson S, Blangiardo M, Holmes C.

Ethnicity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sze S, Pan D, Nevill CR, Gray LJ, Martin CA, Nazareth J, Minhas JS, Divall P, Khunti K, Abrams KR, Nellums LB, Pareek M.

Risk prediction of covid-19 related death and hospital admission in adults after covid-19 vaccination: national prospective cohort study.

Hippisley-Cox J, Coupland CA, Mehta N, Keogh RH, Diaz-Ordaz K, Khunti K, Lyons RA, Kee F, Sheikh A, Rahman S, Valabhji J, Harrison EM, Sellen P, Haq N, Semple MG, Johnson PWM, Hayward A, Nguyen-Van-Tam JS.

Ethnicity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sze S, Pan D, Nevill CR, Gray LJ, Martin CA, Nazareth J, Minhas JS, Divall P, Khunti K, Abrams KR, Nellums LB, Pareek M.

Genomic reconstruction of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in England

Vöhringer HS, Sanderson T, Sinnott M, Maio ND, Nguyen T, Goater R, Schwach F, Harrison I, Hellewell J, Ariani C, Gonçalves S, Jackson D, Johnston I, Jung AW, Saint C, Sillitoe J, Suciu M, Goldman N, Panovska-Griffiths J, The Wellcome Sanger Institute Covid-19 Surveillance Team, The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Birney E, Volz E, Funk S, Kwiatkowski D, Chand M, Martincorena I, Barrett JC, Gerstung M.

Predicting onward care needs at admission to reduce discharge delay using machine learning

Duckworth C, Burns D, Lamas Fernandez C, Wright M, Leyland R, Stammers M, George M, Boniface M.

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Health And Social Care Northern Ireland Honest Broker Service

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