SA Branch November webinar - the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink

The South Australian Branch of the Statistical Society would like to invite you to a late-notice November webinar.

SPEAKER
Dr Ruth Jack is a statistician with the Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre Mental Health & Technology. Ruth’s team uses large, anonymised databases of electronic health records from primary and secondary care to develop and validate novel methods for identifying and quantifying unexpected or adverse reactions to drugs used to treat mental health disorders, as well as to identify trends and variation in prescribing in different population groups. They are also examining clustering of medicines within patient groups prescribed medicines for their mental health to identify patterns of co-prescribing and contraindicated combinations of treatments.

TOPIC
Today’s talk will provide information about the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) - a service that provides real-world clinical data on millions of people from across the UK that can be used for research. This will be followed by an example of research done using CPRD data examining the impact of Covid-19 on the incidence of tics in children and young people in England.