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Creating a new patient and public involvement (PPI) group for OpenSAFELY NHS Talking Therapies project - introduction
How, and why, we brought together a diverse group of people with lived experience of using the NHS Talking Therapies’ service to support the OpenSAFELY NHS Talking Therapies project.
Exploring codelists in OpenSAFELY: the ehrQL Codelist Explorer
What we learned about how researchers use and reuse codelists across OpenSAFELY studies.
Exploring variables in OpenSAFELY: the ehrQL Variable Explorer
What we learned about how researchers create and reuse variables across OpenSAFELY studies.
Unifying ICD-10 editions for OpenSAFELY in OpenCodelists
How we combined different editions of ICD-10 so that one codelist works across multiple OpenSAFELY datasets.
Challenges and solutions to identifying pregnancy codes in Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
Key challenges in identifying pregnancy codes in EHRs and solutions to help researchers make sense of incomplete or conflicting health records.
Using a simple pregnancy algorithm to analyse Electronic Health Records (EHRs) data in OpenSAFELY
An explanation of how a simple pregnancy algorithm was built and checked in EHRs, with a focus on anomalies and limitations.