Data Connect Publications
Below are selected publications featuring research supported by our routine data and end-to-end services.
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| Mason S, Stone T, Jacques R, Lewis J, Simpson R, Kuczawski M, Franklin M. Creating a Real-World Linked Research Platform for Analyzing the Urgent and Emergency Care System. Med Decis Making. 2022 Nov;42(8):999-1009. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X221098699. |
| CUREd Database. University of Sheffield. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cure/cured-plus-database. Accessed 3/5/2024. |
| Lewis J, Weich S, O'Keeffe C, et al. Use of urgent, emergency and acute care by mental health service users: A record-level cohort study. PLoS One. 2023 Feb 13;18(2):e0281667. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281667. |
| Hotham R, O'Keeffe C, Stone T, Mason S and Burton C. Heterogeneity of reasons for attendance in frequent attenders of emergency departments and its relationship to future attendance. Emergency Medicine Journal. 2022;39(1): 10-15. doi:10.1136/emermed-2020-210412 |
| Burton C, Stone T, Oliver P, et al. Frequent attendance at the emergency department shows typical features of complex systems: analysis of multicentre linked data. Emergency Medicine Journal. Published Online First: 26 May 2021. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2020-210772 |
| Dr Jen Lewis, Prof Suzanne Mason; University of Sheffield. Understanding demand for emergency care using regional routine data from emergency department and acute hospital admissions. https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/projects/understanding-demand-for-emergency-care-using-regional-routine-data-from-emergency-department-and-acute-hospital-admissions/. |
| Health Data Research (HDR) UK. Remote health monitoring smartphone app reduces emergency hospital admissions from care homes by 25%. News story. https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/remote-monitoring-app-reduces-emergency-hospital-admissions-from-care-homes/. Accessed 3/5/2024. |
| Health Data Research (HDR) UK. The Healthcall app. An animation. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/8348983. Accessed 3/5/2024. |
| Lewis, J., Simpson, R. M., Stone, T., Ennis, N., Jay, N., Croft, S., . . . Mason, S. M. (2025). Clinical advisors at NHS 111 improve accuracy for paediatric patients and their advice is more reliably followed: a retrospective observational cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2025-328896 |
| Marshall, C., Kumar, A., Saraiva, S., West, R. M., Mason, S. M., Burton, C. D., . . . Guthrie, E. (2025). Trimodal age distribution of frequent attendance at the emergency department: a descriptive analysis of national, English, secondary care data using a retrospective cohort. BMJ Open, 15(10). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2025-105840 |
| England, T., Brailsford, S., Burton, C., Martin, G., Mason, S. M., Maynou, L., . . . Conroy, S. (2025). A new approach to getting simulation models used in healthcare: an example from emergency care. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 76(12), 2579-2590. doi:10.1080/01605682.2025.2483787 |
| McDermott, M., Kimenai, D. M., Anand, A., Huang, Z., Houston, A., Williams, S., . . . Mills, N. L. (2024). Adoption of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin for risk stratification of patients with suspected myocardial infarction: a multicentre cohort study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 43. doi:10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.100960 |
| Garner, A., Preston, N., Caiado, C. C. S., Stubington, E., Hanratty, B., Limb, J., . . . Knight, J. (2024). Understanding health service utilisation patterns for care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic using routinely collected healthcare data. BMC Geriatrics, 24. doi:10.1186/s12877-024-05062-6 |
| Montana, L., Magallanes, J., Juarez, M., van Gemeren, L., Wood,S., Mason, S., . . . Villa-Uriol, M. -C. (2025). EventBox: A novel visual encoding for interactive analysis of temporal and multivariate attributes in event sequences. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2025.3633904 |
| Montana, L., Magallanes, J., Juarez, M., van Gemeren, L., Wood, S., Mason, S., . . . Villa-Uriol, M. -C. (2025). EventBox: a Novel Visual Encoding for Interactive Analysis of Temporal and Multivariate Attributes in Event Sequences. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 1-11. doi:10.1109/tvcg.2025.3633904 |
| Jacques RM, Simpson RM, Hasan M, et alVariation in emergency department attendances and acute hospital admissions for ambulatory emergency care: a retrospective analysis of routinely collected NHS data across England. BMJ Open 2026;16:e115446. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-115446 |
| Lewis, J., M. Jacques, R., Hasan, M. et al. Winter all year round in urgent and emergency care: a large retrospective analysis of routinely collected NHS data across England, 2021–2022. BMC Health Serv Res 26, 499 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-026-14253-3 |
| McDermott M, Kimenai DM, Anand A, Huang Z, Houston A, Williams S, Evison F, Gallier S, Carenzo C, Glampson B, Hasan M, Robertson A, Phillips T, Davis C, Sapey E, Mayer E, Mason S, Stammers M, Mills NL; HDRUK Regional Linked Data Driven Evidence Network. Adoption of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin for risk stratification of patients with suspected myocardial infarction: a multicentre cohort study. Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2024 Jun 13;43:100960. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.100960. PMID: 38975590; PMCID: PMC11227019. |