CORU

We are the Clinical Operational Research Unit at @UCL, applying operational research and mathematics to problems in health care.

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

Breaking: The chief executive of UnitedHealthcare was fatally shot in the chest in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning. A worrying targeted attack in a country riven with anti-science and anti-medical research conspiracy theorists. And with too many guns.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X https://t.co/j4fRgzSYde

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Important 🧵on our new peer-reviewed paper:

The pandemic is as bad as it ever was for babies - in year to Aug 2023, 6,300 babies under 1 were admitted to hospital wholly or partly BECAUSE of Covid.

They are ONLY age group where admissions have NOT gone down over time 1/17

[CORU @UCL_CORU]

Great new piece by CORU's Christina Pagel!

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

A new short piece by me in the BMJ reflecting on the Module 1 report and how "emergency planning" needs to be incorporated into "everyday planning"

https://t.co/XGo5E6qmSE

[JAHA @JAHA_AHA]

More is not always better.

Read about how in children with single ventricle disease, multiple surgical reinterventions in infancy were linked to a worse prognosis. #AHAJournals @UCL_CORU https://t.co/MtvPloHFeD

[CORU @UCL_CORU]

Lovely CORU annual picnic with the team yesterday!

Ok we're biased, but best team in UCL :-D

[CORU @UCL_CORU]

That said, there were differences in treatment path (several operations over 3-5 years) completion and age at completion by demographic factors

Project was funded by @TheBHF

[CORU @UCL_CORU]

New paper with CORU's Dr Qi Huang & close @GOSHCharity colleague Prof @katebrown220 looking at disparities in survival for babies born with severe congenital heart disease.
Good news! In UK, no evidence of any difference by sex, ethnicity or deprivation!
https://t.co/YvkSwC9o0S

[CORU @UCL_CORU]

Two new congenital heart papers out from CORU (projects led by @chrischirp and Prof Sonya Crowe) and partners. One paper led by @dr_jowray and the other led by @katebrown220

Both are open access!

https://t.co/5cAGyf7RTz

https://t.co/qwWxGqEMjP

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Very proud of the @uclchimera team who won "novelty of approach" in the Exeter Uni Datathon & presented a UCL CHIMERA maths showcase the next day!

[CORU @UCL_CORU]

Very proud of Prof @chrischirp in receiving this honour!

[Faculty of Public Health @FPH]

@theAliceRoberts @unibirmingham @benoit_varenne @WHO @CamillaKingdon @RCPCHtweets @JimC_HRH @UKHSA @JamesPKingsland @DHSCgovuk @MarvinJRees @BristolCouncil Congratulations to our new Honorary Fellow @chrischirp, Professor of Operational Research at the @ucl

#FPHAwards24

[UCL @ucl]

Huge congratulations to @UCL_CORU for winning the Healthcare Partnership category at the #LondonHigherAwards 🏆

Their collaboration with @uclh improved patient hospital bed flow using advanced analytical models.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/vqz867zhb3

@LondonHigher

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Read more about the work here:

https://t.co/IsGbD5sfOv

[CORU @UCL_CORU]

Very proud of the team including Zella King, Sonya Crowe and Luca Grieco for winning this award for their work with UCLH on patient flow!

[UCL London Office @UCL_London]

Huge congratulations to @UCL_CORU for winning the Healthcare Partnership award at the #LondonHigherAwards last night🏆

The award recognised the incredible @UCL_CORU researchers who improved the use of hospital beds @UCLH using advanced analytics models

@UCL @LondonHigher

[UCL Innovation and Enterprise @UCLEnterprise]

Congratulations to @UCL_CORU and well done to the other @UCL finalists (including our own Entrepreneurship team)👏

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

A pleasure to help @TheORSociety celebrate its 75th birthday today at the House of Lords!

OR stands for "Operational Research" which is all about using maths, data, talking and listening, to improve systems and support better decision making! It's also what I'm a prof of 😃

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

For any families of children & young people with complex health needs, or young adults with complex health needs, who are interested in working with @UCL_SPROCKET , we'd love your input into *what* are the best ways of working together!
https://t.co/hxmSgRqyhp

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

THREAD: We've been working on @UCL_SPROCKET to improve services for children with complex health needs.
As part of that, we worked with parents to capture some of their lived experience in 3 animations.
This one highlights how *everything* is a fight - it's exhausting.

1/5

[CORU @UCL_CORU]

New paper from our @HealthFdn funded LAUNCHES project

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

New paper on 6,541 adults having a procedure to close a hole in their heart atria (ASD) in England!

Mainly good news - survival very high & no evidence of differences in outcome by deprivation 1/3

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

And our @UCL_CORU Christmas season has started! :)