Lin, Liang-Yu
Henderson, Alasdair D.
Carlile, Oliver
Dillingham, Iain
Butler-Cole, Ben F. C.
Marks, Michael
Briggs, Andrew
Jit, Mark
Tomlinson, Laurie A.
Bates, Chris
Parry, John
Bacon, Sebastian C. J.
Goldacre, Ben
Mehrkar, Amir
MacKenna, Brian
Eggo, Rosalind M.
Herrett, Emily
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Article History
Received: 27 February 2024
Accepted: 11 June 2024
First Online: 20 June 2024
Declarations
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: The data provided by the OpenSAFELY platform are anonymised. This study was conducted as part of the “Quality-of-life in patients with long COVID: harnessing the scale of big data to quantify the health and economic costs study (OpenPROMPT)”, which was approved by and the LSHTM Research Ethics Committee (ref 28030).
: The OpenSAFELY platform adheres to the obligations of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. The service previously operated under notices initially issued in February 2020 by the Secretary of State under Regulation 3(4) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (COPI Regulations), allowing researchers to conduct COVID-19 studies using confidential patient information. Therefore, the OpenSAFELY platform does not require patient consent.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. BG is a Non-Executive Director at NHS Digital; he also receives personal income from speaking and writing for lay audiences on the misuse of science.