Helen Curtis
Researcher
Helen is a researcher at the Bennett Institute, focusing on the OpenPrescribing project.
She has three years of NHS Data Analysis experience, working in a Commissioning Support Unit primarily with secondary care data. She has a DPhil in Genetics from here at Oxford and a Natural Sciences (Cell Biology and Maths) degree from the University of Durham.
Papers by Helen Curtis
- Comparative safety and effectiveness of Pfizer BA.4-5 versus Sanofi during the spring 2023 COVID-19 booster vaccination programme in England: a matched cohort study in OpenSAFELY-TPP
- OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research
- Trends in inequalities in avoidable hospitalisations across the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study of 23.5 million people in England
- Educational interventions delivered to prescribing advisers to influence primary care prescribing: a very low-cost pragmatic randomised trial using routine data from OpenPrescribing.net
- Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records: a cohort study in 25 million patients’ records at source using OpenSAFELY
- Interpreting Pathology Test Result Values With Comparators (<, >) in Electronic Health Records research: an OpenSAFELY short data report
- Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY-TPP analysis of 20 million adult electronic health records.
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antipsychotic Prescribing
- Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening and hypertension management in England: An analysis of monthly changes in Quality and Outcomes Framework indicators in OpenSAFELY
- Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study using 48 million adults’ primary care records in England through OpenSAFELY
- Data-driven identification of potentially successful intervention implementations: a proof of concept using five years of opioid prescribing data from over 7000 practices in England
- DMARD monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics
- Challenges in Estimating the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Using Observational Data
- Data-Driven Identification of Unusual Prescribing Behavior: Analysis and Use of an Interactive Data Tool Using 6 Months of Primary Care Data From 6500 Practices in England
- Comparative effectiveness of BNT162b2 versus mRNA-1273 covid-19 vaccine boosting in England: matched cohort study in OpenSAFELY-TPP
- First dose COVID-19 vaccine coverage amongst adolescents and children in England: an analysis of 3.21 million patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY
- Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians' Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review
- OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 1: primary care clinical activity in England during the first wave of COVID-19
- Trends and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients
- Impact of national guidance on switching anticoagulant therapy during COVID-19 pandemic
- Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care
- Association between warfarin and COVID-19-related outcomes compared with direct oral anticoagulants
- Severity of Severe Acute Respiratory System Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Alpha Variant (B.1.1.7) in England
- Risks of covid-19 hospital admission and death for people with learning disability
- Factors associated with deaths due to COVID-19 versus other causes
- Ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related hospitalisation, intensive care unit admission, and death in 17 million adults in England
- Identifying Care Home Residents in Electronic Health Records
- Association between living with children and outcomes from covid-19
- Case fatality risk of the SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern B.1.1.7
- Changes in the rate of cardiometabolic and pulmonary events during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Short report: Ethnicity and COVID-19 death in the early part of the COVID-19 second wave in England
- Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of death from COVID-19
- HIV infection and COVID-19 death
- Effect of pre-exposure use of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 mortality
- Impact of Electronic Health Record Interface Design on Unsafe Prescribing of Ciclosporin, Tacrolimus, and Diltiazem: Cohort Study in English National Health Service Primary Care
- Comparison of different risk prediction modelling approaches for COVID-19 related death using the OpenSAFELY platform
- Risk of COVID-19-related death among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma prescribed inhaled corticosteroids
- Suboptimal prescribing behaviour associated with clinical software design features: a retrospective cohort study in English NHS primary care
- Prescription of suboptimal statin treatment regimens: a retrospective cohort study of trends and variation in English primary care
- Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY
- Trends and variation in unsafe prescribing of methotrexate: a cohort study in English NHS primary care.
- Impact of Chief Medical Officer activity on prescribing of antibiotics in England: an interrupted time series analysis
- Is Use of Homeopathy Associated With Poor Prescribing in English Primary Care? A Cross-Sectional Study
- Measuring the Impact of an Open Web-Based Prescribing Data Analysis Service on Clinical Practice: Cohort Study on NHS England Data
- Six months on – NHS England needs to focus on dissemination, implementation and audit of its Low-Priority Initiative
- Time trends and geographical variation in prescribing of antibiotics in England 1998–2017
- Compliance with requirement to report results on the EU Clinical Trials Register: cohort study and web resource.
- Reply to Comment on 'Impact of NICE guidance on tamoxifen prescribing in England 2011–2017: an interrupted time series analysis'
- Trends and variation in prescribing of low-priority treatments identified by NHS England: a cross-sectional study and interactive data tool in English primary care
- Time trends and geographical variation in prescribing of drugs for diabetes in England from 1998 to 2017
- Impact of NICE guidance on tamoxifen prescribing in England 2011–2017: an interrupted time series analysis
- Trends, geographical variation and factors associated with prescribing of gluten-free foods in English primary care: a cross-sectional study
- OpenPrescribing: normalised data and software tool to research trends in English NHS primary care prescribing 1998–2016
- New mechanism to identify cost savings in English NHS prescribing: minimising 'price per unit', a cross-sectional study
Blog posts by Helen Curtis
- OpenSAFELY Service Restoration Observatory: Key Measures
- NHS Service Restoration Observatory 2: changes in primary care clinical activity in England during the COVID-19 pandemic
- OpenPathology: fake seasonality in potassium results — dangerous and avoidable
- OpenPathology: Seasonality in Haemoglobin test results
- QIPP Planning: How To…
- New measures for latest "Do Not Prescribe" list under consultation
- OpenPrescribing July 2018 newsletter
- New on OpenPrescribing — our measures now have categories!
- OpenPrescribing June 2018 Newsletter
- OpenPrescribing May 2018 Newsletter
- OpenPrescribing March 2018 Newsletter
- OpenPrescribing February 2018 Newsletter
- 2017 Round-Up
- New OpenPrescribing tool: long-term prescribing trends, back to 1998!
- Publication Bias: in cake form - Bennett Institute at the Curiosity Carnival