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NHS Tayside A&E, Diagnosis During A&E visit

Summary

Abstract

Accident and Emergency episode level data.

Keywords

Accident & Emergency HIC NHS SCOTLAND

Publisher

  • Name
    Health Informatics Centre - University of Dundee
  • Logo

    Not available

  • Description
    Not available
  • Contact point
    Not available

Documentation

Description

The working diagnosis(es) on discharge from A&E, or where no working diagnosis is made, the main symptom, abnormal finding, or problem. This includes all patients who attend for emergency care in an A&E department, minor injuries unit or medical assessment unit.
  • 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
    28/06/2017
  • Frequency
    Static
  • Distribution release date
    27/09/2021

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 .

DIAGNOSIS1ISDCODE

This field represents the Diagnosis 1 Code. Refer to Diagnosis_1_Desc for description. ...

DIAGNOSIS2ISDCODE

This field represents the Diagnosis 2 Code. Refer to Diagnosis_2_Desc for description. ...

DIAGNOSIS3ISDCODE

This field represents the Diagnosis 3 Code. Refer to Diagnosis_3_Desc for description. ...

DIAGNOSIS1DESC

This field represents the Description of the main diagnosis of the patient. .

DIAGNOSIS2DESC

This field represents the Description of the second diagnosis of the patient. .

DIAGNOSIS3DESC

This field represents the Description of the third diagnosis of the patient. .

DIAG1SITEISDCODE

This field represents the Diagnosis 1 Site Code. Refer to Diag_1_Site_Desc for descripti...

Variable description

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