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Deaths – National Records Scotland

Summary

Abstract

Cause of death data from National Records Scotland (NRS, formerly General Registrar Office (GRO) and contains data relating to the causes of death of patients.

Keywords

Deaths NRS 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

This data can be used to identify causes of death. As this data does not originate from the health service, it is not originally CHI seeded. From approx. 2015 onwards, the data was supplied with CHI number, though only covering around 95% of the data. Prior to 2015, and for those records supplied with no CHI an automated mechanism which identifies over 90% of the records is used to CHI seed. This is further augmented by manual data entry. Due to these procedures, this dataset does not necessarily represent all deceased persons.
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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
    06/07/1988
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    27/09/2021

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Administrative
  • 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
    National Records Scotland
  • 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
    National Records Scotland
  • 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

DTDEATH

This field represents the date of Death.

YRREG

This field represents the year registered.

HBCODE

A number between 1 and 17 indicating healthboard (See HBCode_Desc) for human readable na...

DTREG

This field represents the date death was registered (always populated).

REGNO

This field represents a unique number to the patient and is anonymised on extraction.

ENTRYNO

The entry number on the register (not unique but continuous based on the start of the Ye...

INSTCODE

This field represents the location code at which health activity takes place. In other w...

ICDCUCD

This field represents the Underlying Cause of Death..

ICDRCD0

This field represents the Other cause of death..

Variable description

Data type
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