Raph Goldacre
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Raph Goldacre
Senior Data Scientist, Health Data Epidemiology Group
Raph Goldacre is a Senior Data Scientist in the Health Data Epidemiology Group. Underpinned by strong clinical-academic networks across Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) and beyond, Raph's research collaborations aim to join the dots between health data science, epidemiological methods, and clinically-informed translational research output, by maximising the use of NHS health data to answer epidemiological questions that are the most relevant to specialist clinicians, patients, public health policy, and population health intelligence.
Raph has undertaken published studies of long-term time trends in hospitalisation and mortality (distinguishing epidemiological burden of disease, healthcare burden of disease and artefact caused by e.g. changes in coding methods), in relation to acute and chronic non-communicable diseases, hospital-recorded infections, common surgical procedures, clinical and public health interventions, and shifts in healthcare delivery. Other research collaborations include longitudinal studies of patient populations (e.g. case fatality, short/long-term hospital outcomes); studies of record-linked parent-child data to investigate associations between perinatal factors and maternal/paediatric disease; and studies of variation in mortality/morbidity by geographic region, reported ethnicity, and area-level deprivation. Much of this work feeds into cross-departmental collaborations with other research groups and projects where linkage to hospitalisation and other routine clinical data is required (e.g. Million Women Study, UK Biobank, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, and large clinical trials including RECOVERY).
Raph holds an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, enjoys participating in knowledge-sharing networks in the BDI/NDPH, and teaches on the NDPH MSc course in Global Health Science & Epidemiology and the BDI course in Hospital Episode Statistics.
Recent publications
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Hospital admissions for group A streptococcal infections in England: current rates and historical perspective.
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Iro MA. et al, (2023), The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 23, e326 - e327
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External rectal prolapse: more than meets the eye
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Yiasemidou M. et al, (2023), Techniques in Coloproctology
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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on secondary care for cardiovascular disease in the UK: an electronic health record analysis across three countries.
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Wright FL. et al, (2023), European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes, 9, 377 - 388
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Higher dose corticosteroids in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 who are hypoxic but not requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial.
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RECOVERY Collaborative Group. Electronic address: recoverytrial@ndph.ox.ac.uk None. and RECOVERY Collaborative Group None., (2023), Lancet (London, England), 401, 1499 - 1507
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A national cohort study using routine data to investigate the association between ethnicity and the provision of care in obstetric anaesthesia in England between 2011 and 2021
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Bamber JH. et al, (2023), Anaesthesia