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Projects Delivered

DaSH has supported over 240 approaches for potential data linkage research projects.

The data linkage projects currently in analyis or have been completed are listed below:

2024

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
NDL Waiting Lists	Jessica Butler jessica.butler2@nhs.scot
Facilitating data accessibility and quality ‐ quality checking and creating metadata for the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study	Krzys Adamczyk krzysztof.adamczyk@abdn.ac.uk website
Warm Home Prescriptions 2024	Jillian Evans jillian.evans3@nhs.scot

2023

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Data Provenance PPIE (DARE UK)	Kate OSullivan katherine.osullivan@abdn.ac.uk website
Data Provenance Prototype (DARE UK)	Kate OSullivan katherine.osullivan@abdn.ac.uk website
Beyond Test Scores: How being the Top of your Class Affects Educational Attainments and Socio-Emotional Development	Tommaso Sartori tommaso.sartori@essex.ac.uk
RDS Federated Clinical Free Text & Validation	Arlene Casey arlene.casey@ed.ac.uk
The effect of the herpes zoster vaccine on cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases	Simon Sawhney simon.sawhney@abdn.ac.uk website
Intermediate-level care in NHS Grampian: mapping the populations using intermediate care and their pathways into and out of intermediate care	Jessica Butler jessica.butler2@nhs.scot
Grampian study - the effect of the herpes zoster vaccine on cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases	Simon Sawhney simon.sawhney@abdn.ac.uk website
GEMINI Mini Retro	Gerald Lip gerald.lip@nhs.scot
RDS Synthetic Data	Kate OSullivan katherine.osullivan@abdn.ac.uk website
RDS System Development Fund 2023	Kate OSullivan katherine.osullivan@abdn.ac.uk website
Health and Socioeconomic Long-Term Effects of Increased Sugar Consumption in Early Childhood in Post-War United Kingdom	Michael Laxy michael.laxy@tum.de

2022

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
iCAIRD federated learning	Alan Pinder alan.pinder@mre.medical.canon
Data access for students to NHSG aggregated data	Dimitra Blana dimitra.blana@abdn.ac.uk website
GEMINI: Grampian’s Evaluation of Mia an Innovative National breast screening Initiative	Gerald Lip gerald.lip@nhs.scot
Lisa Iverson oral contraceptives	Lisa Iversen l.iversen@abdn.ac.uk website
Warm Home Prescriptions	Shantini Paranjothy shantini.paranjothy@abdn.ac.uk website
Mental Health Crises in Children and Young People	Corri Black corri.black@abdn.ac.uk website
Investigating the incidence, prevalence and outcomes of myeloproliferative neoplasms	Lesley Anderson lesley.anderson@abdn.ac.uk website
Effect of duration of freezing embryos on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes – Analysis of frozen embryo transfers from national data	Amalraj Raja amalraj.raja@abdn.ac.uk website
Connectivity test between the Scottish Medical Imaging (SMI) archive and the SHAIP edge appliance in NHS Grampian	James Blackwood James.Blackwood@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

2021

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Investigating risk factors for postpartum haemorrhage	Madeline Elkington madeline.elkington@dph.ox.ac.uk
Post-discharge cost attributable to hospital admission with Acute Kidney Injury	Simon Sawhney simon.sawhney@abdn.ac.uk website
Are carbamazepine or other anticonvulsants associated with hypogammaglobulinaemia?	Angus Macleod Angus.Macleod@abdn.ac.uk website
Long-term Effect of Separation from the Best Friends: Lesson from Aberdeen Cohort	Gabriella Conti gabriella.conti@ucl.ac.uk
DaSH 126 Student Project	Mary Joan Macleod m.j.macleod@abdn.ac.uk website
A composite prediction model for couples planning IVF treatment (COMFORT)	Natalie Cameron natalie.cameron@abdn.ac.uk website
Multidisciplinary Ecosystem to study Lifecourse Determinants and Prevention of Burdensome Mid-life Multimorbidity (MELD-B)	Simon Fraser S.Fraser@soton.ac.uk
Decision Fatigue in Out-of-Hours Primary Care: detecting changes in decision making over the work period	Julia Allan julia.allan@stir.ac.uk
Follow-up of the SEATON birth cohort at 25 years of age	Steve Turner s.w.turner@abdn.ac.uk website
Mental health care service utilisation of children and young people on the Child Protection Register in Aberdeen City	Corri Black corri.black@abdn.ac.uk website

2020

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Artificial intelligence-supported early fracture diagnosis: SBRI competition (Phase 2: SeeAI LTD)	Saile Moreno Villegas Saile@seeai.co.uk
Artificial intelligence-supported early fracture diagnosis: SBRI competition (Phase 2: Bering Ltd)	Ignat Drozdov idrozdov@beringresearch.com
Supporting osteoporosis care: Can an automated classification system effectively case finding people at risk	Rosemary Hollick rhollick@abdn.ac.uk website
SteatoSITE project	Jonathan Fallowfield Jonathan.Fallowfield@ed.ac.uk
Networked Data Lab	Corri Black corri.black@abdn.ac.uk website
Impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization on adverse obstetric outcomes	Maggie Cruickshank m.e.cruickshank@abdn.ac.uk website
Managing healthcare for vulnerable patients during the coronavirus pandemic: monitoring and adapting COVID and non-COVID clinical care	Corri Black corri.black@abdn.ac.uk website
Integrating real time surveillance and dynamic modelling of COVID-19 in Grampian to inform an adaptive healthcare response	Dimitra Blana dimitra.blana@abdn.ac.uk website
Understanding the individual clinical course of severe Covid-19: a series of n-of-1 studies	Rute Vieira rute.vieira@abdn.ac.uk website
A comparison between the deprivation levels of patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Grampian with the wider Grampian population	Dimitra Blana dimitra.blana@abdn.ac.uk website
Finding Endometriosis through machine learning ‘FEMaLe’	Lucky Saraswat lucky.saraswat@nhs.scot
PIONEER Grampian Electronic Health Record Pilot Project Study	Muhammad Imran Omar m.i.omar@abdn.ac.uk website
Association between childhood epilepsy and socioeconomic status in adulthood (GS)	William Whiteley william.whiteley@ed.ac.uk
Can a machine learning approach identify distinct AKI phenotypes that are useful for clinical decision making?	Simon Sawhney simon.sawhney@abdn.ac.uk website
Perinatal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic	Albert Farre a.farre@dundee.ac.uk
ARCHERY Project: Ai to Revolutionise the patient Care pathway in Hip and knEe aRthroplastY	Lesley Anderson lesley.anderson@abdn.ac.uk website
Cardiovascular risk and risk prediction for all stages of chronic kidney disease in the Grampian Laboratory Outcomes Morbidity and Mortality Study (GLOMMS III) cohort	Simon Sawhney simon.sawhney@abdn.ac.uk website
Primary postpartum haemorrhage and longer term maternal physical and mental health outcomes: a record linkage retrospective cohort study	Su Mon Latt drsumonlatt@gmail.com
Predicting patient flow in hospital	Ian Stansfield i.stansfield@abdn.ac.uk website
Reproductive outcomes after a fully dilated Caesarean section: is there a risk of preterm birth and late miscarriage?	Andrea Woolner a.woolner@abdn.ac.uk website
Association between childhood epilepsy and socioeconomic status in adulthood	Leone Craig l.craig@abdn.ac.uk website

2019

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Identifying clusters of multimorbidity in hospitalised patients	Lynn Robertson l.robertson@abdn.ac.uk website
Retrospective clinical evaluation of a novel medical technology (Mia) on Scottish Breast Screening cases as part of the iCAIRD (Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Digital Diagnostics) Programme	Gerald Lip gerald.lip@nhs.scot
iCAIRD SBRI ankle and wrist fracture	Andrew Keen a.keen@nhs.net
Beyond success: exploration of the inter-generational social mobility effects on subjective wellbeing through life trajectories of the Aberdeen Children of 199 s cohort study	Jessica Butler jessica.butler2@nhs.scot
Does carbamazepine cause hypogammaglobulinaemia	Angus Macleod Angus.Macleod@abdn.ac.uk website
SAFeR Study	Paul Fowler p.a.fowler@abdn.ac.uk website
DAGS in ACONF	Marj Johnston marjorie.johnston@abdn.ac.uk website
How strongly is family socioeconomic status associated with children’s cognitive and scholastic performance during the years of attending primary school?	Sophie von Stumm sophie.vonstumm@york.ac.uk
Guide and Scout participation in childhood and mental health in adulthood: linkage of the Aberdeen Child of the 1950s birth cohort study (ACONF) to prescribing data	Chris Dibben Chris.dibben@ed.ac.uk
The prevalence and outcome of polypharmacy in Generation Scotland linked PIS dataset	Alison Murray a.d.murray@abdn.ac.uk website
Survival data for BREACAST and MOBCAT cohorts	Elaina Collie-Duguid e.collie-duguid@abdn.ac.uk website
Do patients who travel further present with more advanced head and neck cancer?	Melanie Turner m.e.turner@abdn.ac.uk website
SEEAI Ltd: Artificial intelligence-supported early fracture diagnosis SBRI competition	Saile Moreno Villegas Saile@seeai.co.uk
Jiva.AI Limited: Artificial intelligence-supported early fracture diagnosis SBRI competition	Manish Patel manish.patel@jiva.ai
Bering Limited: Artificial intelligence-supported early fracture diagnosis SBRI competition	Ignat Drozdov idrozdov@beringresearch.com
Red Star Consulting Limited: Artificial intelligence-supported early fracture diagnosis SBRI competition.	Andrew Conkie andrew.conkie@redstarconsulting.co.uk
University of Aberdeen: Artificial intelligence-supported early fracture diagnosis SBRI competition	Nir Oren n.oren@abdn.ac.uk website
Multicentre Acute kidney injury, Readmissions and Kidney Endpoints Replication (MARKER) Study Salford Dataset	Simon Sawhney simon.sawhney@abdn.ac.uk website
Can deep learning help improve automated retinal image analysis algorithms for diabetic retinopathy screening	Sam Philip Philip s.philip@abdn.ac.uk website
Just how unequal are we? Mapping health inequalities in the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study.	Jessica Butler jessica.butler2@nhs.scot
iCAIRD Stroke Thrombolysis AI Treatment Decision Support Evaluation and Federated Learning	Mary Joan Macleod m.j.macleod@abdn.ac.uk website

2018

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Evaluating a new protocol for primary-care initiated identification and management of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia: observational study and cost-effectiveness analysis.	Zosia Miedzybrodzka zosia@abdn.ac.uk website
NLP of fracture in x-ray reports	Nir Oren n.oren@abdn.ac.uk website
Alison Murray - a future project	Alison Murray a.d.murray@abdn.ac.uk website
Patient Lists	Neil Basu neilbasu@abdn.ac.uk website
Understanding the interplay of geography and demographic characteristics in the diagnosis of eight common cancers	Peter Murchie p.murchie@abdn.ac.uk website
FH+ cohort for Glasgow safe haven	Jennifer Logue Jennifer.Logue@glasgow.ac.uk
The role of co-morbidities in stroke prevention, stroke management and patient outcomes following stroke	Melanie Turner m.e.turner@abdn.ac.uk website
Maternal Pathways to Offspring Mental Disorder	Angus MacBeth angus.macbeth@ed.ac.uk
Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank Aberdeen (BCNTB Abdn)	Valerie Speirs valerie.speirs@abdn.ac.uk website
Multicentre Acute Kidney Injury and Readmissions Replication Study (MARS)	Simon Sawhney simon.sawhney@abdn.ac.uk website
Grampian Renal Linkage	Simon Sawhney simon.sawhney@abdn.ac.uk website
Local biochemistry and stroke cohort linkage	Melanie Turner m.e.turner@abdn.ac.uk website

2017

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
What are the chances of a live birth following day 5/6 embryo transfer versus day 2/3 embryo transfer in the first complete cycle of IVF?	David Mclernon d.mclernon@abdn.ac.uk website
COPD genomics study	Shobna Vasishta s.vasishta@dundee.ac.uk
Predicting cumulative pregnancy outcomes in patients having IVF treatment	David Mclernon d.mclernon@abdn.ac.uk website
Risk of recurrent stillbirth: Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-analysis	Sohinee Bhattacharya sohinee.bhattacharya@abdn.ac.uk website
Risk factors for ectopic pregnancy in the first complete cycle of in vitro fertilisation	David Mclernon d.mclernon@abdn.ac.uk website
PACFIND - Fibromyalgia patient digital healthcare journey	Rosemary Hollick rhollick@abdn.ac.uk website
Identifying the contribution of renal impairment to cognitive decline in two Aberdeen Birth Cohorts	Corri Black corri.black@abdn.ac.uk website
Selective Schooling and Long-term Health	Jessica Butler jessica.butler2@nhs.scot
SSPEDI	Matthew Collinson matthew.collinson@abdn.ac.uk website
Kidney Disease rates (Host project): Exploration of kidney disease rates over time	Harry Marks a.marks@abdn.ac.uk website
GLOMMS III (Linkage)	Corri Black corri.black@abdn.ac.uk website
Selective schooling and long-term health	Jessica Butler jessica.butler2@nhs.scot
Clinical effectiveness of thermocoagulation in the treatment of high grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)	Maggie Cruickshank m.e.cruickshank@abdn.ac.uk website
PAediatric unPlanned dAY case Admissions (PAPAYA)	Natasha Woodman tasha_woodman@hotmail.co.uk
Adversity in childhood and mid-life multimorbidity : findings from a prospective Scottish cohort	Corri Black corri.black@abdn.ac.uk website

2016

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Multimorbidity: prevalence and outcomes	Lynn Robertson l.robertson@abdn.ac.uk website
Rheumatology Scoping Exercise	Shobna Vasishta s.vasishta@dundee.ac.uk
Evaluating a new protocol for primary-care initiated identification and management of patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia: observational study and cost-effectiveness analysis	Nadeem Qureshi nadeem.qureshi@nottingham.ac.uk
Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity and mental disorders in the offspring	Rebecca Reynolds R.Reynolds@ed.ac.uk
Artificial intelligence for the health sector_PhD1	Markus Steiner m.steiner@abdn.ac.uk website
Artificial intelligence for the health sector_PhD2	Markus Steiner m.steiner@abdn.ac.uk website
BSRBR-AS	Claudia Zabke c.zabke@abdn.ac.uk website
Benzodiazepines and z-drugs prescribing pattern over the time among the Aberdeen Children of The Nineteen Fifties Cohort	Gareth Jones gareth.jones@abdn.ac.uk website
The role of pelvic examination in primary care in diagnosing gynaecological cancer.	Pauline Williams r01pw16@abdn.ac.uk website
PSP_CBD Prevalence study	Diane Swallow diane.swallow@abdn.ac.uk website
Development of a global neurodevelopmental risk score predictive of life adversity	Jill Pell Jill.Pell@glasgow.ac.uk
Investigating the influence of post-treatment care on survival of individuals within the North of Scotland Cancer and Residence (NASCAR) dataset.	Peter Murchie p.murchie@abdn.ac.uk website

2015

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Linking antenatal maternity data to non-communicable disease data in children and adults	Steve Turner s.w.turner@abdn.ac.uk website
Factors affecting variations in Campylobacter disease rates in Scotland	Norval Strachan n.strachan@abdn.ac.uk website
Bakery products for non-Coeliac gluten sensitive consumers	Dinka Rees dinka.rees@abdn.ac.uk website
Future risk of developing diabetes in mothers with gestational diabetes and their offspring identified as part of the 1000 women project	Sam Philip Philip s.philip@abdn.ac.uk website
The role of co-morbidities in stroke prevention, stroke management and patient outcomes following stroke	Melanie Turner m.e.turner@abdn.ac.uk website
Study of HPV screening in Immunised women as First Test (SHIFT)	Maggie Cruickshank m.e.cruickshank@abdn.ac.uk website
STONES for ISD - Paediatric Orthopaedic Outcome Study	Steve Turner s.w.turner@abdn.ac.uk website
Health Care Reform: the iMpact on practice, oUtcomes and costs of New roles for h realth pROfeSsionals (MUNROS). Work package 7: Have new professions, or new roles of existing professions, any association with key outcomes from medical treatment and care?	Christine Bond c.m.bond@abdn.ac.uk website

2014

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
What are the factors which make individuals resilient to developing multimorbidity and what factors are associated with psychological and functional resilience in those with multimorbidity?	Marj Johnston marjorie.johnston@abdn.ac.uk website

2013

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Early Life Determinants of cognitive resilience	Alison Murray a.d.murray@abdn.ac.uk website
Using data linkage to ascertain early gestational accuracy and to explore the association between IVF conception and reduced weight in infancy and childhood	Steve Turner s.w.turner@abdn.ac.uk website
Does access to health services influence provider delay, stage, treatment and survival from eight common cancers: analysis of a linked dataset based on the NASCAR Cohort.	Peter Murchie p.murchie@abdn.ac.uk website
STratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL)	Alison Murray a.d.murray@abdn.ac.uk website

2012

PROJECT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
CHIMES Pharmacovigilance - Validation	Graham Devereux g.devereux@abdn.ac.uk website
To assess levels of medication discontinuation or switching in children prescribed orlistat, metformin and antidepressants: as a marker of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs)	Angela/Peichen Sun peichen.sun@abdn.ac.uk website
Development and validation of prognostic models for subfertility	David Mclernon d.mclernon@abdn.ac.uk website