Ami Banerjee
NHS cardiologist and researcher.Passionate about global health, data, EBM and how it affects daily healthcare.
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Amitava Banerjee: Communicating risk in the time of corona - The BMJ
I entered the national lockdown in March six days early, when the UK had 1950 cases and 81 deaths from coronavirus. My lockdown was driven partly by concerns that we [...]More...
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Communicating risk in the time of Corona- my blog for @bmj_latest @d_spiegel @mendel_random @Dr2NisreenAlwan @trishgreenhalgh @kamleshkhunti @UCL_IHI @martinmckee @DRTomlinsonEP @mancunianmedic
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Multi-organ impairment in low-risk individuals with long COVID
Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has disproportionately affected older individuals and those with underlying medical conditions. Research has focused on short-term outcomes in hospital, and single...
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Our preprint @medrxivpreprint led by @PerspectumGroup @MayoClinic @AllianceMedica1 Multiorgan impairment in low-risk individuals with long COVID.
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Impact of delays on effectiveness of contact tracing strategies for COVID-19: a modelling study
In our model, minimising testing delay had the largest impact on reducing onward transmissions.
Optimising testing and tracing coverage and minimising tracing delays, for instance
with app-based technology, further enhanced contact tracing...
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@HPIAndyCowper Totally agree. Lots of modelling to support why delays in testing an tracing are a bad idea
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The UK suffers the worst recession of any G7 country
The UK’s performance during the Covid-19 crisis has been confirmed as world-beating – but in the worst sense possible. Today’s release from the Office for National Statistics shows not only that Britain has entered the deepest recession in its...
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"Public health vs economy" is a false debate to frame our pandemic policy. A delayed and uncoordinated COVID-19 response has caused both excess deaths and recession, which were avoidable, as in other countries.
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Matt Hancock Accused Of 'Rewriting History' Over Lockdown Date
Health secretary tells Commons March 16 was "precisely when" lockdown started in a claim branded a "bare-faced lie".
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THREAD. If you will pardon the pun, I can’t let this one lie. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/matt-han… On 16 March, far from announcing lockdown, the government announced a list of high-risk conditions for special attention to social distancing. gov.uk/government/spe…
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PM statement on coronavirus: 16 March 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a statement on coronavirus.
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THREAD. If you will pardon the pun, I can’t let this one lie. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/matt-han… On 16 March, far from announcing lockdown, the government announced a list of high-risk conditions for special attention to social distancing. gov.uk/government/spe…
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Cardiovascular disease in homeless versus housed individuals: a systematic review of observational and interventional studies
Objectives To identify: (i) risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in homeless versus housed individuals and (ii) interventions for CVD in homeless populations.
Methods We conducted a systematic literature review in EMBASE until December 2018 using a...
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Homeless people have three times greater risk of CVD and increased CVD mortality, but there are no studies of specific pathways or interventions.
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Under pressure, UK government releases NHS COVID data deals with big tech
Hours before openDemocracy was due to sue, government releases massive data-sharing contracts with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Faculty and Palantir.
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Which aspect of the government's coronavirus response are we to trust? Asking for a friend.
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Impact of ethnicity on outcome of severe COVID-19 infection. Data from an ethnically diverse UK tertiary centre
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, it has been suggested that BAME background patients may be disproportionately affected compared to White but few detailed data are available. We took advantage of near real-time hospital data access and analysis...
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New analyses from @jthteo and @KingsCollegeLon colleagues. BME patients with COVID-19 were 10 years younger, but ethnicity did not independently affect outcomes. @kamleshkhunti @docwas @parthaskar @SouthAsianHF
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Britain's COVID-19 death toll 'could DOUBLE to 73,000 by next year'
Research by University College London and the University of Cambridge suggests one in five people in England fit into a vulnerable group which raises their risk of dying if they catch COVID-19.
Modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 155 722 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study
Global estimates of the effect of common modifiable risk factors on cardiovascular disease and mortality are largely based on data from separate studi…
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Crucial analyses from PURE study underlining the need for global approaches to a small number of risk factors to prevent CVD worldwide @PHRIresearch @DarrylLeong @martinmckee
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Boris Johnson's Brexit envoy to US resigns with furious attack on government 'peddling half-truths'
Alexandra Hall Hall says civil servants being asked to be not 'fully honest' with the public
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A damning indictment of what is required to serve under @BorisJohnson: "I am also at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time, than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust." independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… #AnythingButTory
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Big is not always beautiful: the Apple Heart Study
Ami Banerjee blogs about the Apple Heart Study and what the results mean What a gift. During our fourth away day working on the Catalogue of Bias resource, a systematic compendium of all the possible
Amitava Banerjee: Is conflict of interest a concern in healthcare IT? - The BMJ
In the UK, electronic health records (EHR) have been almost universal in general practice since the 1990s, and were deployed across hospitals in the early 2000s. The Professional Records Standards [...]More...
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I have been saying this for ages bit.ly/2MAv7AD but healthcare IT, digital health and AI need root and branch clean-up of conflict of interest long before they can rely on patient or clinician trust bit.ly/2VwfEWn
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Dominic Cummings accused of conflict of interest over NHS fund
Boris Johnson’s aide was consultant for AI startup that could win share of £250m fund
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I have been saying this for ages bit.ly/2MAv7AD but healthcare IT, digital health and AI need root and branch clean-up of conflict of interest long before they can rely on patient or clinician trust bit.ly/2VwfEWn
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Jerry Morris Memorial Lecture | LSHTM
On October 1st, 2019, the Centre for Global Chronic Conditions is organizing the Jerry Morris Memorial Lecture to celebrate his work.
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Great line up at Jerry Morris Memorial lecture @LSHTM today with Ann Oakley, Andre-Pascal Kengne and @mendel_random
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How Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians
The colonial government's trade in opium devastated Indian farmers, new research shows.
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The original drug cartel, the East India Company, and its opium trade in India. So little written and acknowledged about this truth and this history. Kudos to @DalrympleWill
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Do no harm: a roadmap for responsible machine learning for health care
In this Perspective, the authors present a framework, context and guidelines for accelerating the translation of machine-learning-based interventions in health care.
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Neat analysis of how much further we have to go for AI to be useful and implemented in clinical practice. "...such an alert would not be clinically useful because the model is not conveying anything that the care team does not already know."
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Global health competencies in UK postgraduate medical training: a scoping review and curricular content analysis
Objective To assess global health (GH) training in all postgraduate medical education in the UK.
Design Mixed methodology: scoping review and curricular content analysis using two GH competency frameworks.
Setting and participants A scoping review...
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Global health competencies for all UK doctors- our latest research @profhhemingway
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Evgeny Chazov and Bernard Lown
In 1985, a group of physicians led by two eminent cardiologists bridged the Cold War divide and were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their stance against nucl
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Two cardiologists, inspirational not only in their clinical practice, but also as Nobel Peace Prize winners in their fight to avert nuclear war during the Cold War: Evgeny Chazov and my mentor, Bernard Lown.
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