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Unscheduled Care

Summary

Abstract

This data originates from the Ad Astra system.

Keywords

COVID-19 unscheduled OOH NHS24 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

Feed was initially set up in May 2020 to cover COVID-19 epademic as this system was used within the emergency COVID hubs that were set up prior to being admitted to hospital. Feed included 2 years of back data, from January 2019 onwards. Data Dictionary and other ISD documentation here: https://www.isdscotland.org/Products-and-Services/eDRIS/COVID-19/
  • 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
    Other

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

PROCHI

Anonymised patient identifier

CHI_NUMBER

No Column Description Available

CALL_ID

this field represents the unique call id and is anonymised on release.

CALL_RECEIVED_DATE_TIME

Raw data - the date column for the dataset, but as a VARCHAR - replaced by date_call_rec...

CALL_OUTCOME_CODE

This field represents the call outcome by code.

CALL_OUTCOME_DESCRIPTION

This field represents the descriptive value for the call outcome code.

CALL_OUTCOME_GROUP

This field represents the call outcome group. the data is defined by: 999 A&E D...

PATIENT_DATE_OF_BIRTH

No Column Description Available

PATIENT_GENDER

No Column Description Available

PATIENT_GENDER_DESCRIPTION

No Column Description Available

Variable description

Data type
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