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Are you a HASS HDR student or PhD supervisor based in Sydney? Steve McEachern is co-facilitator at a workshop organised by UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health on sensitive data + Five Safes framework. Register 👇to attend. Please share in your networks. eventbrite.com/e/introduction…

Childbirth timing and completed family size by the mode of conception—the role of medically assisted reproduction: a population-based cohort study in Australia thelancet.com/journals/lanwp…

Have we been underestimating modifiable dementia risk? An alternative approach for calculating the combined population attributable fraction (PAF) for modifiable dementia risk factors academic.oup.com/aje/article/do… UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health Dr Chris Tisdell

This week is Heart Failure Awareness Week in Australia. We’d like you to meet one of our researchers at the cutting edge of heart research, A/Prof Blanca Gallego-Luxan, the lead data scientist for the Cardiac AI project at UNSW’s Centre for Big Data Research in Health (UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health)⬇️

Low persistence to 4 groups of cardiovascular medicines in 3 years, but high adherence while people are on therapy. Cardiovascular multi-medicine use is common (>31%) but does not appear to impair persistence and adherence to therapy. doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.1… Medicines Intelligence CRE

Just published - our paper evaluating the YourIVFSuccess Estimator: Does a public online IVF prediction tool help set patient expectations? A mixed methods evaluation study academic.oup.com/humrep/article… BronwynBrew Georgina Chambers

New🐨study shows the use of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) 💊 and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) 💉 has increased with the increasing evidence of their cardiovascular benefits. Medicines Intelligence CRE UNSW Medicine & Health link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Just out: Elective spinal surgery rates in NSW 2001-2020. ~130k people underwent ~155k surgeries. Main message: Slight increase in surgery rates in the public and workers' comp sectors; substantial private sector increase. What's driving it? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mj…

Does a public online IVF prediction tool help set patient expectations? A mixed methods evaluation study academic.oup.com/humrep/article…

1/2 Meet the facilitators of UNSW's Leading Future Technologies course👋 Starting 16 OCT, this course will be run by human #informationprocessing expert, Dr Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson, & leader of the UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health #analytics & #machinelearning unit, A/Prof. Blanca Gallego Luxan.

Risk for Congenital Anomalies in Children Conceived With Medically Assisted Fertility Treatment: A Population-Based Cohort Study: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0 acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2… UNSW Medicine & Health, UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health, Chris Venetis,Dr Alys Havard

Congratulations Georgina Chambers and team!

Private patients undergoing PCI for myocardial infarction in public hospitals have similar length of stay and in-hospital complications to public patients, but lower rates of mortality. What unmeasured characteristics are causing this effect?doi.org/10.1186/s12939…

Our first award of the evening is the Data Innovation Award, sponsored by Digital Health CRC . The Data Innovation Award goes to Professor Georgina Chambers Georgina Chambers and her team at the National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit.

A huge congratulations to Georgina Chambers and team from UNSW Medicine & Health on winning the Research Australia Data Innovation Award for yourivfsuccess.com.au 🙌

@3DN_UNSW @walkerthon2 Health Services Research Association of AU & NZ Simone Reppermund Julian Trollor Congratulations @walkerthon2 !! So well deserved :)

The Australian Government-funded yourivfsuccess.com.au website is here to support anyone going through infertility. It is the only independent source of IVF clinic success rates and a tool to predict your personalised chance of IVF success UNSW Medicine & Health UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health #BigMiracles

👋 Meet Prof Louisa Jorm, UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health's Director! Working w/ #health & #medical #bigdata, she leads the ARDC-supported #LINDAHR data asset & #ERICA platform. Hear from Louisa on #data & #platforms for Australian #research at the next #ARDCLeadership forum 👉 ow.ly/mlqp50Qz26x

Fresh off the press article on estimating bias in causal epidemiological studies, using assisted reproduction as an example! academic.oup.com/humrep/advance… A big thank you to the wonderful co-authors who supported this work

We've found that 22% of TAVI patients were readmitted within 90 days, with 76% seeking care at non-index hospitals. This was not linked to higher mortality or healthcare use. Reassuring news for TAVI patients in regional areas with limited access to return to index TAVI hospital!