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NHS Tayside - A&E drugs given during an A&E visit

Summary

Abstract

Accident and Emergency episode level data.

Keywords

Accident and Emergency Tayside NHS HIC Scotland

Publisher

  • Name
    Health Informatics Centre - University of Dundee
  • Logo

    Not available

  • Description
    Not available
  • Contact point
    Not available

Documentation

Description

This dataset provides information on the drugs used during the Accident and Emergency visit in Tayside
  • Associated media
    • Not available
  • Is part of
    • Not available

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland, Tayside Region

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/2003
  • End date
    27/06/2017
  • Frequency
    Static
  • Distribution release date
    10/09/2021

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Care
  • Source
    Epr
  • 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 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
    NHS Tayside
  • Data processor
    University of Dundee, Health Informatics Centre

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    Csv, database

Enrichment and linkage

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

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data Dictionary

ATTENDANCENUMBER

This field represents A&E Encounter Number .

ARRIVALDATE

This field represents Date of Arrival .

DISCHARGEDATE

This field represents Date of Completion dd/mm/yyyy .

DATE

This field represents the arrival date.

DOSE

This field represents the dose of the patient"s medication .

DURATION

This field represents the number of days the medication was supplied for. .

NAME

This field represents the name of medication prescribed/dispensed eg Paracetamol .

SITE

This field represents the hospital site.

PROCHI

Anonymised patient identifier

NOTETEXT

This field is a free text field.

Variable description

Data type
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