2020 Project Case Studies
The following projects were undertaken between September 2020 and August 2021.
Models of readmission to intensive care units perform poorly in external validation
Published machine learning and other models do not accurately predict whether patients will be readmitted following discharge from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Ben Cooper
AuguR: a scalable open-source interactive cancer analytics web application for routinely collected data
Providing health care professionals and hospital managers with interactive analytics for cancer outcomes and waiting time data.
Millie Wagstaff
New insights into workplace and retail dynamics for England and Wales
Developing a classification of commercial and employment land use in England and Wales using location and time-series data
Seb Heslin-Rees
Local data spaces
Local Data Spaces co-designed a series of 10 reports alongside 25 Local Authorities using secured data held within the ONS Secure Research Service (SRS), extending analysis to all Local Authorities in England.
Simon Leech
Isolation and Exclusion in a Social Distancing COVID-19 World
A dashboard that identifies geographical areas which might experience increased isolation and exclusion as we leave the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns.
Rosalind Martin
Spatial analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bradford Metropolitan District
Where in Bradford has been most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Harry Tata
Low birthweight and ethnicity in the Bradford Better Start area
Low birthweight has been a longstanding issue in Bradford, and a hard one to tackle; the ethnic-specific trends described in this study can help policy makers and practitioners focus prevention efforts appropriately.
Alex Dalton
Building and analysing cohorts within the OMOP common data model
Making clinical studies easier for the analyst, and faster for the clinician.
James Lazurus
Children’s Urgent Care Provided in the Right Place Every Time
Can machine learning accurately predict the likelihood that children require paediatric treatment in hospital?
Sam Relins
Bradford’s mental ill health epidemic
First a mental ill health epidemic, then a pandemic affecting access to mental health services – how have mental health referrals been impacted?
Maike Gatzlaff
Healthy Choices, Healthy Lives: The Local Food Environment – Holme Wood as a case study
This project developed a ‘proof of concept’ community toolkit to visualise food environment accessibility for a deprived community in Bradford, empowering local policymakers and residents to collaborate through evidence-based decision making.
Tom Albone