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NHS Tayside and Fife Accident & Emergency Dataset (PHS/National)

Summary

Abstract

Accident and Emergency Statistics. There are two types: episode and aggregate level data.

Keywords

Accident & Emergency HIC Tayside Fife Scotland

Publisher

  • Name
    Health Informatics Centre - University of Dundee
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  • Contact point
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Documentation

Description

Accident and Emergency Statistics. The A&E datamart was established in June 2007 to monitor the compliance of each NHS Board against the 4 hour wait standard. In July 2010 the A&E data mart was extended further to collect items such as diagnosis, several injury fields and an alcohol involved flag, which will be used to identify whether the patient’s alcohol consumption was a factor in the attendance. The collection of the new fields has been driven by a variety of SG policy decisions and interest from a number of organisations. Although there is now the facility to submit these additional fields, they are still under development and PHS are working with the NHS Boards to support data collection and quality. There are two types of data submitted to the A&E datamart: episode and aggregate level data. All hospitals with Emergency Departments submit episode level data containing a detailed record for each patient attendance. Some smaller sites with minor injury units or community hospitals only submit aggregate files containing monthly summary attendance and compliance figures only. This is because they do not have the information systems and support to enable collection of detailed patient based information. Sites that submit episode level data account for around 94% of all attendances at A&E.
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Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland, Tayside Region, United Kingdom, Scotland, Fife

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/06/2007
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    24/09/2021

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
    PHS/ NHS Tayside & Fife
  • 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
    Csv, 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

ARRIVAL_TIME_DATE

This field represents the date the patient arrived at A&E..

COT_TIME_DATE

This field represents the Completion Of Treatment Time and Date.

DAT_TIME_DATE

This field represents the date and time of Discharge, Admission or Transfer.

HB_TREATMENT_CODE

This field represents the Health Board where treatment was received. F NHS FIFE T NHS ...

HB_TREATMENT_DESC

This field represents the description for HB_TREATMENT_CODE.

TREATMENT_LOCATION_CODE

This field represents the location where treatment was carried out. Each location in Sc...

TREATMENT_LOCATION_NAME

This field represents the description for TREATMENT_LOCATION_CODE.

SENDING_LOCATION_CODE

Sending Location is a five character alpha-numeric code used in data processing to ident...

PAT_MARITAL_STATUS_CODE

This field represents the marital statement of the patient A Never married nor regi...

PAT_MARITAL_STATUS_DESC

This field represents the description for PAT_MARITAL_STATUS_CODE.

Variable description

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