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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"routinely-collected data"”.
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A systems approach to the use of routinely collected data for healthcare improvement
… and recorded, producing huge volumes of ‘routinely- collected’ data. This data is increasingly viewed as a valuable resource for the improvement of healthcare, although a truly unifying framework to translate data into knowledge and thence change is lacking. From an initial introduction to …
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Exploring the Childhood Dental Caries-Bodyweight Relationship: A Quality Assessment of Routinely Collected Data
<b>Background</b>: There is great potential for routinely collected data to be used to examine oral-systemic conditions that share common determinants such as childhood bodyweight and dental caries. However, knowledge of the current use, quality and collection of such routine data is limited. The …
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From Data to Knowledge in Secondary Health Care Databases
The advent of big data in health care is a topic receiving increasing attention worldwide. In the UK, over the last decade, the National Health Service (NHS) programme for Information Technology has boosted big data by introducing electronic infrastructures in hospitals and GP practices across the …
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Industrial toxic waste and health: a practical case study
… methodology should make use of readily available data and computing facilities. A literature review on previous studies on the subject was carried out in order to draw from existing experience. A total of twenty-five studies on health near sources of pollution were reviewed. These studies were …
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Long-term impacts of antenatal corticosteroid exposure and preterm birth
… were identified at mid-childhood. We re-analysed data from the first randomised, placebo-controlled trial of antenatal corticosteroids using contemporary methods. Our findings were consistent with previously published results of reduced respiratory distress syndrome in the group randomised to …
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Big data and machine learning tools to understand mastitis epidemiology and other topics
… to collect and store individual health data is leading to a growing interest in applying Big Data analytical methodologies to better understand health and disease in both humans and dairy cattle. Data collected through routine observations such as doctor or veterinary visits, milking …
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Variation in NHS utilisation of vault cytology post-hysterectomy
… observational, retrospective cohort study, using routinely collected data, linked women’s entire cervical screening histories with their operation details and subsequent vault cytology test results, to establish: Which women are having hysterectomies? What was the indication? Which were …
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A population based study of primary hyperparathyroidism in Tayside, Scotland
… of the epidemiology of PHPT based on population data, and to investigate its long-term outcomes in the mild subgroup compared with those with severe disease. Design: A large retrospective cohort study using routinely collected data in Tayside, Scotland, 1997-2006. Results: The prevalence of PHPT …
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Extracting value from patterns in routinely collected, high-frequency water quality data in rivers supplying drinking water treatment works
… works. Due to their operational focus, these routinely collected data are not commonly used beyond real-time decision making. The purpose of this research was to test whether these data have additional value, beyond immediate operational use. This thesis aims to demonstrate the potential to …
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Extracting value from patterns in routinely collected, high-frequency water quality data in rivers supplying drinking water treatment works
… works. Due to their operational focus, these routinely collected data are not commonly used beyond real-time decision making. The purpose of this research was to test whether these data have additional value, beyond immediate operational use. This thesis aims to demonstrate the potential to …
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Cardiac arrest in children preceding PICU admission: Aetiology and outcome in a developing country
… Methods: Retrospective descriptive study of routinely collected data. Results: Of 2501 PICU admissions, 110 (4.4%; 58.7% male) had preceding cardiac arrest, 80.6% of which occurred in hospital. Median (IQR) age was 7.2 (2.5 - 21.6) months; 30.8% had chronic underlying disease. Children …
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Children admitted to Paediatric Intensive Care at Red Cross War Memorial Children?s Hospital with Non-Accidental injuries (2012-2020): a retrospective descriptive study
… Methods: A retrospective descriptive study of routinely collected data from all children admitted to the PICU with suspected NAI from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2020. Results: Of 11345 children admitted to PICU, 42 (0.4%) patients with suspected NAI (median (IQR) age 20.3 (7.9 – 62.6) …
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The impact of antiretroviral therapy on tuberculosis incidence
… This is a retrospective cohort study using routinely collected data of HIV infected individuals aged 15 years and above from public health facilities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, between 2007 and 2016. A Marginal Structural Model (MSM) with inverse probability of treatment …
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Structured professional judgement approach to risk assessment: generalisability across patient groups for the prediction of adverse outcomes in secure mental health care
… of behavioural outcomes, and high quality, routinely collected data to gain a more realistic representation of what occurs in clinical practice. Further, the papers draw on larger sample sizes than have previously been reported in this area, allowing for more complex statistical analysis. …
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Statistical applications in the analysis of vaccine preventable diseases
… to link cases with incomplete genetic typing data to other cases to form potential clusters that may be worthy of further investigation. A novel inuenza strain spread worldwide in 2009 and this work helps in the understanding and monitoring of that outbreak. A key parameter is the reproductive …
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Investigating kidney disease clinical epidemiology using routinely collected administrative data and proteomics
Data collected routinely during healthcare visits and additional biospecimens collected as part of cohort study activities are invaluable to better understand kidney disease epidemiology. This thesis explores the detection and characterization of acute kidney injury (AKI), chronic kidney disease …
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Holding pieces of the same puzzle: using an understanding of the prevalence and impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to target mental health resources
… to which different ACEs can be measured using routinely-collected data, and what early interventions might be indicated to support the mental health of young people who experience them. Methods: The thesis comprises a rapid literature review and survey of experts to understand mental health …
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Indication for and outcomes of continuous Positive Airways Pressure (CPAP) and High Flow Nasal Cannula oxygen therapy (HFNC) in children admitted to Red Cross War Memorial's Hospital (RCWMCH) excluding those with primary respiratory aetiologies
… This was a prospective observational study of routinely collected data, between August 2015 and January 2016. Primary and secondary outcome measures were NIV failure (progression to intubation and invasive ventilation) and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) admission respectively. …
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Environmental exposures and cardiovascular morbidity in Scotland: a study of the effects of air pollution on health
… As this study makes use of readily available data, the second aim is to determine whether or not such data can be used to accurately estimate the effects of air pollution. Chapter 1 provides a detailed discussion of air pollution, focussing on the history of air pollution and the change in …
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Relationship between prehospital time and 24-hour mortality following injury in patients with major trauma in New Zealand
… of major trauma in NZ, analysis of routinely collected data from a retrospectively designed prospective cohort study was undertaken. Individuals of any age attended by an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provider in NZ immediately following major trauma between 1 December 2016 and 30 …
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