Linked electronic health records for research on a nationwide cohort including over 54 million people in England
Publication: MedRxiV
Angela Wood, Rachel Denholm, Sam Hollings, Jennifer Cooper, Samantha Ip, Venexia Walker, Spiros Denaxas, Ashley Akbari, Jonathan Sterne, Cathie Sudlow, Rachel Denholm, Sam Hollings, Jennifer Cooper, Samantha Ip, Venexia Walker, Spiros Denaxas, Amitava Banerjee, William Whiteley, Alvina Lai, Rouven Priedon, Cathie Sudlow, Lynn Morrice, Debbie Ringham, Suzannah Power, Lynn Laidlaw, Michael Molete, John Walsh, Garry Coleman, Cath Day, Elizabeth Gaffney, Tim Gentry, Lisa Gray, Sam Hollings, Richard Irvine, Brian Roberts, Estelle Spence, Janet Waterhouse
23 February 2021
Summary:
A new population-wide health data resource to accelerate research on COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease in England.
This work has been led by the CVD-COVID-UK consortium in partnership with NHS Digital. The CVD-COVID-UK consortium is a collaborative group of more than 130 members across 40 institutions working to understand the relationship between COVID-19 and cardiovascular diseases. The consortium is managed by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Data Science Centre, led by Health Data Research UK.