Mortality among Care Home Residents in England during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of 4.3 million adults over the age of 65
This is the code and configuration for our paper, "Mortality among Care Home Residents in England during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of 4.3 million adults over the age of 65".
The paper is pre-printed and under review with a journal. Open an issue or email me at anna.schultze@lshtm.ac.uk for comments, suggestions or questions.
- A link to the paper will be put here once our pre-print has gone live.
- Raw outputs, including charts and the redacted aggregate data these were made from, are in
released_outputs/output - If you are interested in how we defined our variables, take a look at the study definition; this is written in
python, but non-programmers should be able to understand what is going on there - The identification of care home residents has been described elsewhere
- Developers and epidemiologists interested in the code should review DEVELOPERS.md.
The OpenSAFELY framework is a new secure analytics platform for electronic health records research in the NHS.
Instead of requesting access for slices of patient data and transporting them elsewhere for analysis, the framework supports developing analytics against dummy data, and then running against the real data within the same infrastructure that the data is stored. Read more at OpenSAFELY.org.
The framework is under fast, active development to support rapid analytics relating to COVID19; we're currently seeking funding to make it easier for outside collaborators to work with our system. You can read our current roadmap here.