SSA South Australian Branch meeting - The UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink

The South Australian Branch of the Statistical Society would like to invite you to a late-notice November meeting of the 2024 program.  The speaker is Ruth Jack from the University of Nottingham.  This event is primarily an online event, but there is a face-to-face option for those who prefer to attend in person.

Date: 6th November (Wednesday) 2024

Time: 5:15 – 6:00 pm (Adelaide Time).  Zoom access from 5:00 pm

Venue

• Zoom
• Rundle Mall Plaza, level 4, Room 5. Enter via Stephens Place and follow the signs to the University of Adelaide.

Zoom joining instructions:  Please click this URL to start or join: https://adelaide.zoom.us/my/lynne.giles?pwd=Q29rZ1paZ2VSMFRMTWsxbTdxdVFDUT09

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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.

Speaker

Dr Ruth Jack is a statistician with the NIHR 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.