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Dr Ruth Costello

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

I joined the EHR group in 2022 as a research fellow to work on OpenSAFELY projects, investigating healthcare disruption related to the pandemic and repurposing of drugs to treat COVID-19. I previously worked at the University of Manchester where I mainly used CPRD data in studies in the area of rheumatic diseases. While working in Manchester I completed my PhD by publication, this included 7 studies with the theme of using digital data to investigate the management of rheumatoid arthritis.

Affiliations

Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Selected Publications

Comparative effectiveness of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir versus sotrovimab and molnupiravir for preventing severe COVID-19 outcomes in non-hospitalised high-risk patients during Omicron waves: observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform.
ZHENG, B; Tazare, J; Nab, L; Green, AC; Curtis, HJ; MAHALINGASIVAM, V; HERRETT, EL; COSTELLO, RE; EGGO, RM; Speed, V; Bacon, SC; Bates, C; Parry, J; Cockburn, J; Hester, F; Harper, S; Schaffer, AL; Hulme, WJ; Mehrkar, A; EVANS, SJ; MacKenna, B; Goldacre, B; Douglas, IJ; TOMLINSON, LA; OpenSAFELY Collaborative,;
2023
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Living alone and mental health: parallel analyses in UK longitudinal population surveys and electronic health records prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
McElroy, E; HERRETT, E; Patel, K; Piehlmaier, DM; Gessa, GD; Huggins, C; Green, MJ; Kwong, AS F; Thompson, EJ; Zhu, J; MANSFIELD, KE; Silverwood, RJ; Mansfield, R; Maddock, J; Mathur, R; COSTELLO, RE; Matthews, A; TAZARE, J; HENDERSON, A; WING, K; Bridges, L; Bacon, S; Mehrkar, A; OpenSAFELY Collaborative,; Shaw, RJ; ... Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing Collaborative,
2023
BMJ mental health
Ethnic differences in the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical monitoring and hospitalisations for non-COVID conditions in England: a population-based, observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform.
COSTELLO, RE; Tazare, J; Piehlmaier, D; HERRETT, E; Parker, EP K; ZHENG, B; Mansfield, KE; HENDERSON, AD; CARREIRA, H; BIDULKA, P; WONG, AY S; WARREN-GASH, C; Hayes, JF; Quint, JK; MacKenna, B; Mehrkar, A; EGGO, RM; Katikireddi, SV; TOMLINSON, L; LANGAN, SM; Mathur, R; LH&W NCS (or CONVALESCENCE) Collaborative,; OpenSAFELY collaborative,;
2023
EClinicalMedicine
OpenSAFELY: The impact of COVID-19 on azathioprine, leflunomide, and methotrexate monitoring, and factors associated with change in monitoring rate
The OpenSAFELY Collaborative,; Brown, A; Fisher, L; Curtis, H; Wiedemann, M; Hulme, W; Hopcroft, LE M; Cunningham, C; Speed, V; COSTELLO, R; Galloway, J; Russell, M; Bechman, K; Kurt, Z; Croker, R; Wood, C; Walker, A; Schaffer, A; Bacon, SC J; Mehrkar, A; Hickman, G; Bates, C; Cockburn, J; Parry, J; Hester, F; ... MacKenna, B.
2023
medRxiv
Living alone and mental health: parallel analyses in longitudinal population surveys and electronic health records prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic
McElroy, E; HERRETT, E; Patel, K; Piehlmaier, D; Di Gessa, G; Huggins, C; Green, M; Kwong, A; Thompson, E; Zhu, J; MANSFIELD, K; Silverwood, R; Mansfield, R; Maddock, J; Mathur, R; COSTELLO, R; Matthews, A; TAZARE, J; HENDERSON, A; WING, K; Bridges, L; Bacon, S; Mehrkar, A; Shaw, R; Wels, J; ... OpenSafely Collaborative,
2023
medRxiv
Ethnic differences in the indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical monitoring and hospitalisations for non-COVID conditions in England: An observational cohort study using OpenSAFELY
COSTELLO, R; TAZARE, J; Piehlmaier, D; HERRETT, E; PARKER, EP K; ZHENG, B; MANSFIELD, K; HENDERSON, A; CARREIRA, H; BIDULKA, P; Wong, AY S; WARREN-GASH, C; Hayes, J; Quint, J; MacKenna, B; EGGO, R; Katikireddi, SV; TOMLINSON, L; LANGAN, S; Mathur, R; The longitudinal health and wellbeing collaborativ,;
2023
medRxiv
ARUKCFE/BmiAlgorithm
Kopec-Harding, K; COSTELLO, R;
2022
Zenodo
Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children and young people with pre-existing rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
Kearsley-Fleet, L; Chang, M-L; Lawson-Tovey, S; COSTELLO, R; Fingerhutová, Š; Švestková, N; Belot, A; Aeschlimann, FA; Melki, I; Koné-Paut, I; Eulert, S; Kallinich, T; Berkun, Y; Uziel, Y; Raffeiner, B; Oliveira Ramos, F; Clemente, D; Dackhammar, C; Wulffraat, NM; Waite, H; Strangfeld, A; Mateus, EF; Machado, PM; CARRA Registry Investigators,; COVID-19 Global Pediatric Rheumatology Database In,; ... Hyrich, KL.
2022
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
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