After controlling for influential factors including age, sex, First Nations status, vaccination status, and socio-economic profile (based on postcode), the analysis found no evidence to suggest that adults with Omicron were more likely to have ongoing symptoms or moderate to severe functional limitati...
A generation ago, Wennberg described most variation in clinical practice as “unwarranted” (which he defined as variation in the utilization of health care services that cannot be explained by variation in patient illness or patient preferences) [63]. Others coined the term “postcode lottery” to...
The government website, which allows searching of new tier levels by postcode, crashed almost immediately after the announcement.2 Areas with the toughest tier 3 restrictions will include Leicester and Greater Manchester—which have been under …...
postcode. A valid COVID-19 vaccine dose was defined as a date of vaccination 14 days or more prior to the COVID-19 episode date. The Wild-type strain was dominant in the UK prior to December 2020. Alpha dominated between December 2020 and April 2021 followed by Delta (May 2021 to mid...
Standard errors are clustered at the postcode level. Three further aspects of vulnerability are associated with COVID-19 driven shocks: being indigenous (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander) (col. 3), having non-binary gender (col.4); and being unemployed (col.5). In column 6 we replace ...
(IMD) rank quintile calculated from patient postcode [12]), ethnicity, whether they were on the waiting list for a transplant on 31 December 2019), and COVID-19 test data (the month of the positive test and the testing pillar (clinical settings (pillar 1) or community settings (pillar 2...
My health department colleagues linked data from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme with information from the Victorian health department's COVID surveillance database. They then matched levels of socioeconomic disadvantage by postcode, according to criteria from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ...
That's not at risk; we looked at that carefully. COVID Radar collects data by postcode area. That means that as an individual user, you are part of a group of 3,000 people in the same postcode area and you are not identified personally. The only personal data the app collects are ag...
Ahouseholdstructure is created as follows: males and females belonging to the same household type, and residing in the same postcode sector, are linked together on the basis of age distance; single people below the age of 20 are assumed to live at home with one or two parents and siblings...
It was at this stage that the public-facing “coronavirus-in-your-area” dashboard was launched, allowing users to type in their postcode to view local case rates. During the first 24 hours after going live, the online service received 120,000 visitors. ...