Bad Pharma

essay by Ben Goldacre

Bad Pharma ⬇️

paperback edition (en)

Bad Science

2008 non-fiction work by Ben Goldacre

Bad Science ⬇️

2008 edition

Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science

TEDGlobal 2011

Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

2012 video of a TEDMED 2012 talk

A hypothesis-free data science approach to identifying novel patterns of clinical interest in clinicians' treatment preferences: clusters of high Pericyazine and Promazine use in England (Preprint)

A national audit of pancreatic enzyme prescribing in pancreatic cancer from 2015 to 2023 in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP

Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform

Association between oral anticoagulants and COVID-19 related outcomes: two cohort studies

Barriers to Working With National Health Service England’s Open Data (Preprint)

Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform on 18 million adults in England

Changes in English medication safety indicators throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: a federated analysis of 57 million patients’ primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY

Changes in the rate of cardiometabolic and pulmonary events during the COVID-19 pandemic

Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care: a federated analysis of 58 million patient records in situ using OpenSAFELY

Cohort profile: OpenPROMPT

Comparative effectiveness of ChAdOx1 versus BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccines in Health and Social Care workers in England: a cohort study using OpenSAFELY

Comparative effectiveness of Paxlovid versus sotrovimab and molnupiravir for preventing severe COVID-19 outcomes in non-hospitalised patients: observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform

Comparative effectiveness of sotrovimab and molnupiravir for preventing severe COVID-19 outcomes in non-hospitalised patients on kidney replacement therapy: observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY-UKRR linked platform and SRR database

Comparative effectiveness of two- and three-dose schedules involving AZD1222 and BNT162b2 in people with kidney disease: a linked OpenSAFELY and UK Renal Registry cohort study

Comparative safety and effectiveness of Pfizer BA.4-5 versus Sanofi during the spring 2023 COVID-19 booster vaccination programme in England: a matched cohort study in OpenSAFELY-TPP

Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records: a cohort study in 25 million patients’ records at source using OpenSAFELY

Does The Reformed Cancer Drug Fund Generate Evidence On Effectiveness? A Cross-sectional Analysis On Publicly Accessible Documentation

Educational interventions delivered to prescribing advisers to influence primary care prescribing: a very low-cost pragmatic randomised trial using routine data from OpenPrescribing.net

Effect of the 2022 COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign in 50 year olds in England: regression discontinuity analysis in OpenSAFELY

Effectiveness of Sotrovimab and Molnupiravir in community settings in England across the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 sublineages: emulated target trials using the OpenSAFELY platform

Fit notes associated with COVID-19 in 24 million patients’ primary care records: A cohort study in OpenSAFELY-TPP

Healthcare use in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: A cohort study in three nations of the UK

Healthcare utilisation in people with long COVID: an OpenSAFELY cohort study

Hydroxychloroquine for prevention of COVID-19 mortality: a population-based cohort study

Impact Of Electronic Health Record Interface Design On Unsafe Prescribing Of Ciclosporin, Tacrolimus and Diltiazem: A Cohort Study In English NHS Primary Care

Impact of Electronic Health Record Interface Design on Unsafe Prescribing of Ciclosporin, Tacrolimus, and Diltiazem: Cohort Study in English National Health Service Primary Care (Preprint)

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on deprivation-level differences in cardiovascular hospitalisations: A comparison of England and Denmark using the OpenSAFELY platform and National Registry Data

Incidence and management of inflammatory arthritis in England before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-level cohort study using OpenSAFELY

OpenPrescribing Hospitals: An open access analytics platform for hospital medicines use in England

OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 1: describing trends and variation in primary care clinical activity for 23.3 million patients in England during the first wave of COVID-19

OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 2: changes in primary care activity across six clinical areas during the COVID-19 pandemic

OpenSAFELY: Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in children and adolescents

OpenSAFELY: Representativeness of Electronic Health Record platform OpenSAFELY-TPP data compared to the population of England

OpenSAFELY: Risks of COVID-19 hospital admission and death for people with learning disabilities - a cohort study

Opioid prescribing to people on orthopaedic waiting lists during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: a study using OpenSAFELY-TPP

Overall and cause-specific hospitalisation and death after COVID-19 hospitalisation in England: cohort study in OpenSAFELY using linked primary care, secondary care and death registration data

Patient characteristics associated with clinically coded long COVID: an OpenSAFELY study using electronic health records

Potentially inappropriate prescribing of DOACs to people with mechanical heart valves: a federated analysis of 57.9 million patients’ primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY

Predicting COVID-19 related death using the OpenSAFELY platform

Primary care coding activity related to the use of online consultation systems or remote consulting: an analysis of 53 million peoples’ health records using OpenSAFELY

Recording of “COVID-19 vaccine declined” among vaccination priority groups: a cohort study on 57.9 million NHS patients’ primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY

Sales of over-the-counter products containing codeine in 31 countries, 2013-2019: a retrospective observational study

The Use of Online Consultation Systems or Remote Consulting in England Characterized Through the Primary Care Health Records of 53 Million People in the OpenSAFELY Platform: Retrospective Cohort Study (Preprint)

The impact of Long COVID on Health-Related Quality-of-Life using OpenPROMPT

Time trends in new diagnoses of 19 long-term conditions: a population-level cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY

Trends and Variation in Data Quality on the EU Clinical Trials Register: A Cross-Sectional Study

Trends and variation in unsafe prescribing of methotrexate: a cohort study in English NHS primary care

Trends, variation and clinical characteristics of recipients of antivirals and neutralising monoclonal antibodies for non-hospitalised COVID-19: a descriptive cohort study of 23.4 million people in OpenSAFELY

Uptake of service specific codes for the COVID oximetry @Home Pulse Oximetry service: an analysis of 57 million patients’ primary care records using OpenSAFELY

Ursodeoxycholic acid and severe COVID-19 outcomes in people with liver disease: a cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform

Using data science to identify unusual treatment choices in England: illustrative findings of uncommon antipsychotics Pericyazine and Promazine

Variation in prescription duration for long term conditions: a cohort study in English NHS primary care using OpenPrescribing

Waning effectiveness of BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 COVID-19 vaccines over six months since second dose: a cohort study using linked electronic health records