Online Consultations
Online Consultations is an OpenSAFELY project from . Every time a researcher runs their analytic code against patient data, it is audited in public here.
Project Completed - paper/report linked
We aimed to explore general practice coding activity associated with the use of online consultation systems in terms of trends, COVID-19 effect, variation and quality. The pandemic accelerated work by the NHS in England to enable and stimulate use of online consultation systems across all practices, for improved access to primary care.
With the approval of NHS England, OpenSAFELY-TPP and OpenSAFELY-EMIS were used to query and analyse in situ records of electronic health record systems of over 53 million patients in over 6,400 practices, mainly in 2019-2020. SNOMED CT codes relevant to online consultation systems and written online consultations were identified. Coded events were described by volumes, practice coverage, trends pre- and post-COVID-19 and inter-practice and sociodemographic variation.
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Why is the code first run date before the project created date?
In OpenSAFELY Jobs, code is run within a workspace. The workspaces feature was introduced before the projects feature, meaning that in some cases, workspaces were created before projects.
Public repos
Researchers
- Jonny Pearson
- Martina Fonseca