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- Influence
OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients
- E. Williamson, A. Walker, +27 authors B. Goldacre
- Medicine
- Nature
- 8 July 2020
COVID-19 has rapidly affected mortality worldwide 1 . There is unprecedented urgency to understand who is most at risk of severe outcomes, requiring new approaches for timely analysis of large… Expand
Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY
- E. Williamson, A. Walker, +27 authors B. Goldacre
- Medicine
- Nature
- 8 July 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly affected mortality worldwide1. There is unprecedented urgency to understand who is most at risk of severe outcomes, and this requires new approaches… Expand
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
- B. Goldacre
- Psychology, Medicine
- 1 September 2012
17. Zhang SM, Cook NR, Albert CM, Gaziano JM, Buring JE, Manson JE. Effect of combined folic acid, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 on cancer risk in women: a randomized trial. JAMA 2008;300:2012-21. 18.… Expand
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Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials | Cabinet Office
- L. Haynes, B. Goldacre, D. Torgerson
- Political Science, Medicine
- 2012
‘Test, Learn, Adapt’ is a paper which the Behavioural Insights Team is publishing in collaboration with Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science, and David Torgerson, Director of the University of York… Expand
Atypical antipsychotic augmentation in SSRI treatment refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- D. Veale, S. Miles, N. Smallcombe, Haben Ghezai, B. Goldacre, J. Hodsoll
- Psychology, Medicine
- BMC Psychiatry
- 29 November 2014
BackgroundIn 2006, the National Institute of Clinical and Health Excellence (NICE) guidelines for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) recommended anti-psychotics as a class for SSRI treatment… Expand
Opioid prescribing trends and geographical variation in England, 1998-2018: a retrospective database study.
- H. Curtis, R. Croker, A. Walker, Georgia C. Richards, J. Quinlan, B. Goldacre
- Medicine
- The lancet. Psychiatry
- 1 February 2019
BACKGROUND
There is a call for greater monitoring of opioid prescribing in the UK, particularly of strong opioids in chronic pain, for which there is little evidence of clinical benefit. We aimed to… Expand
The opportunities and challenges of pragmatic point-of-care randomised trials using routinely collected electronic records: evaluations of two exemplar trials.
- T. van Staa, L. Dyson, +17 authors L. Smeeth
- Medicine
- Health technology assessment
- 1 July 2014
BACKGROUND
Pragmatic trials compare the effects of different decisions in usual clinical practice.
OBJECTIVES
To develop and evaluate methods to implement simple pragmatic trials using routinely… Expand
Who Owns the Data? Open Data for Healthcare
- P. Kostkova, H. Brewer, +14 authors John Tooke
- Medicine
- Front. Public Health
- 17 February 2016
Research on large shared medical datasets and data-driven research are gaining fast momentum and provide major opportunities for improving health systems as well as individual care. Such open data… Expand
The quality of the evidence for dietary advice given in UK national newspapers
- Benjamin E. Cooper, W. Lee, B. Goldacre, T. Sanders
- Medicine
- Public understanding of science
- 1 August 2012
Introduction: Newspaper reports advocating dietary intake changes may impact on dietary choice and food related health beliefs. The scientific basis and quality of evidence underpinning these reports… Expand