Introducing PrAna: A Powerful Tool for Analysing England’s NHS Primary Care Prescribing Data
In the realm of healthcare and environmental science, understanding the consumption of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is crucial. PrAna emerges as a ground breaking tool that brings a new dimension to the analysis of England’s NHS primary care prescribing data.
Developed as an R package, PrAna is designed to aggregate and normalize England’s national level prescription data. It calculates the total prescribed quantity of different APIs, using open source statistical software R language. This data is vital for predicting the total amount of APIs released into the environment.
PrAna is complemented by a user-friendly interactive tool, PrAnaViz, developed using the R/Shiny framework. This tool allows users to explore and visualize the spatio-temporal trends of the total prescribed quantity of APIs. Users can also download the results in various data formats for their further studies.
With PrAna and PrAnaViz, users can visualize, explore, and report different spatio-temporal and long-term prescription trends for wider use. This can be used as a support tool for policy-makers, academics, researchers in public healthcare, and environmental scientists to monitor different groups of pharmaceuticals emitted to the environment and for prospective risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in the environment.
Published in the esteemed journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making(Jagadeesan et al. 2022), PrAna is a significant contribution to the field, empowering researchers to efficiently handle and interpret complex prescription data.
Explore the Features of PrAna
PrAna is packed with features that make it a versatile tool for any researcher working with England’s NHS primary care prescribing data:
- Data Aggregation and Normalization: Transform your complex prescription datasets into easy-to-understand formats.
- API Consumption Calculation: Calculate the total prescribed quantity of different APIs, vital for predicting the total amount of APIs released into the environment.
- Interactive Visualization: Explore and visualize the spatio-temporal trends of the total prescribed quantity of APIs with PrAnaViz.
- Data Export: Download the results in various data formats for your further studies.
- Accessibility: Access PrAna from any operating system without the need for local installation.
With PrAna, navigating through the complexities of England’s NHS primary care prescribing data has never been easier.
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