Changes in English medication safety indicators throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: a federated analysis of 57 million patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY
Changes in English medication safety indicators throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: a federated analysis of 57 million patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY
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COVID-19 大流行期间英国用药安全指标的变化:使用 OpenSAFELY 对 5700 万患者的初级保健记录进行联合分析
DOI:
10.1101/2022.05.05.22273234
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2022
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B. Mackenna
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Louis Fisher;L. Hopcroft;S. Rodgers;James Barrett;Kerry Oliver;Anthony J Avery;David Evans;Helen J. Curtis;R. Croker;O. Macdonald;Jessica Morley;A. Mehrkar;S. Bacon;S. Davy;I. Dillingham;David Evans;G. Hickman;P. Inglesby;C. Morton;Becky Smith;Tom Ward;W. Hulme;A. Green;J. Massey;Alex J. Walker;Chris Bates;J. Cockburn;John Parry;F. Hester;Sam Harper;S. O’Hanlon;A. Eavis;R. Jarvis;D. Avramov;P. Griffiths;A. Fowles;N. Parkes;B. Goldacre;B. Mackenna
Objective: To describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on safe prescribing, using the PINCER prescribing indicators; to implement complex prescribing indicators at national scale using GP data. Design: Population based cohort study, with the approval of NHS England using the OpenSAFELY platform. Setting: Electronic health record data from 56.8 million NHS patients' general practice records. Participants: All NHS patients registered at a GP practice using TPP or EMIS computer systems and recorded as at risk of at least one potentially hazardous PINCER indicator between September 2019 and September 2021. Main outcome measure: Monthly trends and between-practice variation for compliance with 13 PINCER measures between September 2019 and September 2021. Results: The indicators were successfully implemented across GP data in OpenSAFELY. Hazardous prescribing remained largely unchanged during the COVID-19 pandemic, with only small reductions in achievement of the PINCER indicators. There were transient delays in blood test monitoring for some medications, particularly ACE inhibitors. All indicators exhibited substantial recovery by September 2021. We identified 1,813,058 patients at risk of at least one hazardous prescribing event. Conclusion: Good performance was maintained during the COVID-19 pandemic across a diverse range of widely evaluated measures of safe prescribing.