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Contact information

Email
milan.wiedemann@phc.ox.ac.uk

Website
GitHub

ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1991-282X

Research Groups

Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Milan Wiedemann

BSc, MSc, DPhil

Senior Researcher

Mental health
Psychotherapy
Electronic health records
Research software

Milan is interested in evaluating clinical interventions and enjoys developing software tools that make it easy to understand and work with healthcare data. Before joining the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science he finished his DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma. He likes good documentation, consistent variable names, and mountains.

He is open to discussing project ideas with prospective DPhil students, particularly those interested in psychotherapy research and other mental health related research projects.

Key publications

Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening and hypertension management in England: An analysis of monthly changes in the quality and outcomes framework indicators in OpenSAFELY

Wiedemann M. et al, (2024), Open Heart, 11

Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder

Wiedemann M. et al, (2023), Behaviour Research and Therapy, 169

lcsm: An R package and tutorial on latent change score modelling

Wiedemann M. et al, (2021)

Cognitive Processes Associated With Sudden Gains in Cognitive Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Routine Care

Wiedemann M. et al, (2020), Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Suddengains: An R package to identify sudden gains in longitudinal data

Wiedemann M. et al, (2020), PLoS ONE, 15

Recent publications

Opioid prescribing to people on orthopaedic waiting lists during the covid-19 pandemic in England: retrospective cohort study using linked electronic health record data in OpenSAFELY-TPP

Higgins R. et al, (2025), BMJ Medicine, 4

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antidepressant prescribing with a focus on people with learning disability and autism: an interrupted time series analysis in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP

Cunningham C. et al, (2025), BMJ mental health, 28

The coding of migration status in English primary care from 2011 to 2024: a pilot use of Open Code Counts

Boukari Y. et al, (2025)

Recording of Pharmacy First consultations in general practice records in England: an observational study of the service’s first year using OpenSAFELY

Kingsley V. et al, (2025)

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

Higgins R. et al, (2025)

Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening and hypertension management in England: An analysis of monthly changes in the quality and outcomes framework indicators in OpenSAFELY

Wiedemann M. et al, (2024), Open Heart, 11

Changes in opioid prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: an interrupted time-series analysis in the OpenSAFELY-TTP cohort

Schaffer AL. et al, (2024), The Lancet Public Health, 9, e432 - e442

OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research

Nab L. et al, (2024)

Changes in opioid prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: cohort study of 20 million patients in OpenSAFELY-TPP

Schaffer A. et al, (2024)

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antidepressant Prescribing with a focus on people with learning disability and autism: An interrupted time-series analysis in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP

Cunningham C. et al, (2024)

Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder

Wiedemann M. et al, (2023), Behaviour Research and Therapy, 169

Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study using 48 million adults' primary care records in England through OpenSAFELY

Fisher L. et al, (2023), eLife, 12

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. et al, (2023), eClinicalMedicine, 61

OpenSAFELY NHS service restoration observatory 2: Changes in primary care clinical activity in England during the COVID-19 pandemic

Curtis HJ. et al, (2023), British Journal of General Practice, 73, E318 - E331

Trends, variation, and clinical characteristics of recipients of antiviral drugs and neutralising monoclonal antibodies for covid-19 in community settings: retrospective, descriptive cohort study of 23.4 million people in OpenSAFELY.

Green ACA. et al, (2023), BMJ Med, 2

OpenSAFELY: The impact of COVID-19 on azathioprine, leflunomide, and methotrexate monitoring, and factors associated with change in monitoring rate

The OpenSAFELY Collaborative . et al, (2023)

Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening and hypertension management in England: An analysis of monthly changes in Quality and Outcomes Framework indicators in OpenSAFELY

Wiedemann M. et al, (2023)

lcsm: An R package and tutorial on latent change score modelling

Wiedemann M. et al, (2022), Wellcome Open Research, 7

Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19 using federated analytics on 48 million adults’ primary care records through OpenSAFELY

Fisher L. et al, (2022)

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

Curtis H. et al, (2022)

Effectiveness of BNT162b2 booster doses in England: an observational study in OpenSAFELY-TPP

Hulme W. et al, (2022)

The Relationship Between Working Alliance and Symptom Improvement in Cognitive Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Beierl ET. et al, (2021), Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12

Processes of change in cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder

Wiedemann M., (2021)

lcsm: An R package and tutorial on latent change score modelling

Wiedemann M. et al, (2021)

Processes of change in trauma-focused CBT

Ehlers A. et al, (2021), EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY, 12

The impact of COVID-19 on the cancer care of adolescents and young adults and their well-being: Results from an online survey conducted in the early stages of the pandemic

Košir U. et al, (2020), Cancer, 126, 4414 - 4422

Cognitive Mechanisms in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors: Feasibility and Preliminary Insights from the Cognitions and Affect in Cancer Resiliency Study

Kosir U. et al, (2020), Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology, 9, 289 - 294

Cognitive Processes Associated With Sudden Gains in Cognitive Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Routine Care

Wiedemann M. et al, (2020), Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Suddengains: An R package to identify sudden gains in longitudinal data

Wiedemann M. et al, (2020), PLoS ONE, 15

A permutation test to probe the statistical significance of sudden gain frequency: An application to patterns of change in cognitive and interpersonal therapy for depression

Lorenzo-Luaces L. et al, (2020)

What was the impact of COVID-19 on Adolescent and Young Adult cancer care and their wellbeing? Results from a cross-sectional online survey conducted in the early stages of the pandemic

Košir U. et al, (2020)

Psychiatric disorders in adolescent cancer survivors: A systematic review of prevalence and predictors

Kosir U. et al, (2019), Cancer Reports, 2

Cognitive mechanisms in adolescent and young adult cancer patients and survivors: Feasibility and preliminary insights from the Cognitions and Affect in Cancer Resiliency Study

Košir U. et al, (2019)

suddengains: An R package to identify sudden gains in longitudinal data

Wiedemann M. et al, (2019)

Psychiatric disorders among adolescent cancer survivors: A systematic review

Kosir U. et al, (2018), EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 28

Internet-delivered cognitive therapy for PTSD: a development pilot series

Wild J. et al, (2016), European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 7

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