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  1. ONS CIS added to OpenSAFELY

    Added support for querying COVID-19 Infection Survey data provided by the Office for National Statistics.

  2. Additional options for admitted_to_hospital

    Added support for returning total_bed_days_in_period and total_critical_care_days_in_period from admitted_to_hospital.

  3. ISARIC added to OpenSAFELY

    Added support for querying the ISARIC (International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium) dataset.

  4. COVID-19 Therapeutics added to OpenSAFELY

    Added support for querying the COVID-19 Therapeutics dataset.

  5. Added ability to query a patient’s place_of_death

    Added ability to query a patient’s place_of_death (TPP backend only).

  6. Extended mean_recorded_value, added min_recorded_value and max_recorded_value

    Pull request: opensafely-core/cohort-extractor#726…

  7. Added support for querying by first and last day of the NHS financial (recording) year

    Added support for querying by first and last day of the NHS financial (recording) year.

  8. Show how to extract cohortextractor output in compressed gzip (csv.gz) format

    Show how to extract cohortextractor output in compressed gzip (csv.gz) format – recommended to be used in all studies to minimise file storage size. (However, CSVs can still be used where Stata is used for analysis). This is now shown in all parts of documentation with cohortextractor steps. Link…

  9. Added support for users to provide their own dummy data

    Added support for users to provide their own dummy data. Link to documentation

  10. Documentation explaining how permissions work

    Added a page in the docs explaining (briefly) how permissions work.

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