Data use for positive impact on individuals and populations

This is all about how data is being used to improve lives and make positive change for public good. It also encompasses the science and practice of public engagement.

 

• Using a deterministic matching computer routine to identify hospital episodes in a Brazilian de-identified administrative database for the analysis of obstetrics hospitalisations

  Claudia Medina Coeli, Rosa Maria Soares Madeira Domingues, Lana Meijinhos, Daniela Medina Coeli Bastos, Rejane Sobrino Pinheiro, Valeria Saraceni , Marcos Augusto Bastos Dias, Natália Santana Paiva, Kenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr

  Published online: Mar 3, 2025

• Using data linkage to monitor COVID-19 vaccination

  Development of a vaccination linked data repository

  Tom Eitelhuber, Sera Ngeh, Lauren Bloomfield, Bhaval Chandaria, Paul Effler

  Published online: Dec 15, 2022

• Using data to improve the health of coastal communities: The Coda Network

  Martyn Patel, Elizabeth Ford, Emily Murray , Phil Ward

  Published online: Mar 11, 2026

• Using linked Census ancestry data to examine all-cause mortality by ethnicity in Australia

  Fiona Stanaway, Lin Zhu, Bree McDonald, Jioji Ravulo, Michelle Dickson, Natasha Nassar, Mei Ling Yap, Louisa Jorm, Sarah Aitken, Leonard Kritharides, Andrew Wilson, Fiona M Blyth, Carmen Huckel Schneider, Saman Khalatbari Soltani, Benjumin Hsu, Liz Allen

  Published online: Sep 11, 2025

• Validating a novel deterministic privacy-preserving record linkage between administrative & clinical data: applications in stroke research

  Alisia Southwell, Susan E. Bronskill, Tom Gee, Brendan Behan, Susan G. Evans, Tom Mikkelsen, Elizabeth Theriault, Kirk Nylen, Shannon Lefaivre, Nelson Chong, Mahmoud Azimaee, Natasa Tusevljak, Douglas Lee, Richard H. Swartz

  Published online: Nov 23, 2022

• Validating the QCOVID risk prediction algorithm for risk of mortality from COVID-19 in the adult population in Wales, UK

  Jane Lyons, Vahé Nafilyan, Ashley Akbari, Gareth Davies, Rowena Griffiths, Ewen Harrison, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Joe Hollinghurst, Kamlesh Khunti, Laura North, Aziz Sheikh, Fatemeh Torabi, Ronan Lyons

  Published online: Feb 16, 2022

• Validation of Preterm Birth Related Perinatal and Neonatal Data in the Canadian Discharge Abstract Database to Facilitate Long-term Outcomes Research of Individuals Born Preterm

  Deepak Louis, Peace Eshemokhai, Chelsea Ruth, Kristene Cheung, Lisa Lix, Lisa Flaten, Prakesh Shah, Allan Garland

  Published online: Oct 8, 2024

• Validity of heart failure diagnoses, treatments, and readmissions in the Danish National Patient Registry

  Kasper Bonnesen, Christoffer Tobias Witt, Brian Løgstrup, Hans Eiskjær, Morten Schmidt

  Published online: Oct 22, 2024

• Variation in colorectal cancer treatment and outcomes in Scotland: real world evidence from national linked administrative health data

  Elizabeth Lemmon, Catherine Hanna, Katharina Diernberger, Hugh M Paterson, Sarah H Wild, Holly Ennis, Peter S Hall

  Published online: Feb 20, 2024

• Variation in hospital cost trajectories at the end of life by age, multimorbidity and cancer type

  Katharina Diernberger, Xhyljeta Luta, Joanna Bowden, Joanne Droney, Elizabeth Lemmon, Giovanni Tramonti, Bethany Shinkins, Ewan Gray, Joachim Marti, Peter S. Hall

  Published online: Jan 16, 2023

• Variation in Primary Care Diagnostic Codes Used to Define Health Conditions for Research: Comparison of 45 Health Data Research UK Phenotype Library Codelists for Eight Health Conditions

  Brian Kelly, Clare MacRae, Regina Prigge, Harry Hemingway, Natalie Fitzpatrick, Ana Torralbo, Bruce Guthrie

  Published online: Sep 24, 2026

• VIKING II, a Worldwide Observational Cohort of Volunteers with Northern Isles Ancestry

  Shona Kerr, Rachel Edwards, David Buchanan, John Dean, Zosia Miedzybrodzka, James Wilson

  Published online: May 16, 2023

• What makes administrative data research-ready?

  A systematic review and thematic analysis of published literature

  Louise Mc Grath-Lone, Matthew A Jay, Ruth Blackburn, Emma Gordon, Ania Zylbersztejn, Linda Wijlaars, Ruth Gilbert

  Published online: Jun 20, 2022

• Who and How Many? Using Integrated Health and Education Data to Study Early Care Experiences of Children in the US

  Quentin H. Riser, Heather L. Rouse, Hannah Kim, Cassandra J. Dorius, Jessica Bruning , Ji Young Choi, William T. Abraham

  Published online: Aug 17, 2026