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Covid 19 Accident and Emergency Statistics

Summary

Abstract

Contains data on episode level new and unscheduled attendances at Emergency Departments and some smaller community hospitals and minor injury units (MIUs).

Keywords

COVID-19 Accident and Emergency HIC SCOTLAND

Publisher

  • Name
    Health Informatics Centre - University of Dundee
  • Logo

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  • Description
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  • Contact point
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Documentation

Description

Contains data on episode level new and unscheduled attendances at Emergency Departments and some smaller community hospitals and minor injury units (MIUs).
  • Associated media
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  • Is part of
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Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/2018
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Continuous
  • Distribution release date
    19/05/2022

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Disease registry
  • Source
    Other
  • Collection situation
    Secondary care - Accident and Emergency

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    General research use

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Disclosure control
  • Resource creator
    NHS Fife and Tayside
  • Is referenced by
    Not available

Access

  • Access rights
  • Access service
    HIC has implemented a remote-access Trusted Research Environment to protect data confidentiality, satisfy public concerns about data loss and reassure Data Controllers about HIC’s secure management and processing of their data. Data is not released externally to data users for analysis on their own computers but placed on a server at HIC, within a restricted, secure IT environment, where the data user is given secure remote access to carry out their analysis. Full details are available via the following link: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/hic/safe-haven
  • Jurisdiction
    GB-SCT
  • Data controller
    Local NHS boards
  • Data processor
    University of Dundee, Health Informatics Centre

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    Database

Enrichment and linkage

  • Related datasets
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  • Linkage opportunity
    Not available
  • Tools
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Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data Dictionary

TREATMENT_LOCATION_CODE_DESC

This field represents the treatment location based on the location code.

CHI_NUMBER

No Column Description Available

RECORD_ID

This field represents the accident and emergency record number. this is anonymised on re...

PATIENT_GENDER_CODE

No Column Description Available

PATIENT_GENDER_DESCRIPTION

This field represents Gender and is defined Male or Female.

PATIENT_DATE_OF_BIRTH

No Column Description Available

ARRIVAL_DATE_TIME

No Column Description Available

DISCHARGE_DATE_TIME

No Column Description Available

ARRIVAL_MODE_CODE

This field represents the substantive means by which a patient arrived at an A&E departm...

ARRIVAL_MODE_DESCRIPTION

This field represents the description for the arrival code: Ambulance (air) Ambulanc...

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