There is currently no consensus on approaches to defining asthma or assessing asthma
outcomes using electronic health record-derived data. We explored these approaches in the …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on people with asthma is poorly understood.
We hypothesised that lockdown restrictions were associated with reductions in severe …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing national lockdowns have dramatically
changed the healthcare landscape. The pandemic’s impact on people with chronic obstructive …

Background Socioeconomic deprivation is known to be associated with worse outcomes in
asthma, but there is a lack of population-based evidence of its impact across all stages of …

Introduction There is some evidence that exam results are worse when students are acutely
exposed to air pollution. Studies investigating the association between air pollution and …

Background There is no published algorithm predicting asthma crisis events (accident and
emergency [A&E] attendance, hospitalisation, or death) using routinely available electronic …

Objectives To characterise microbiology testing and results associated with emergency
admissions for acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD), and determine the accuracy of ICD-10 …

In this retrospective cohort study, we used the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL)
Databank to characterise and identify predictors of the one-year post-discharge …

Introduction Asthma is one of the commonest chronic conditions in the world. Subtypes of
asthma have been defined, typically from clinical datasets on small, well-characterised …

Background Area-based deprivation indices are widely used to study health inequalities.
We explored whether inequality exists for asthma care across socioeconomic deprivation …