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NHS Tayside and Fife Immunology

Summary

Abstract

NHS Tayside and NHS Fife laboratory data.

Keywords

Immunology HIC Tayside Fife NHS Scotland

Publisher

  • Name
    Health Informatics Centre - University of Dundee
  • Logo

    Not available

  • Description
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  • Contact point
    Not available

Documentation

Description

This data is provided in a format based upon the SCI-Store system. SCI-Store is a data repository which retains patient laboratory test result information at a health board level. Data prior to 2007 for Tayside has been transformed to fit this structure. Fife data starts in 2005 and all originates from SCI-Store. There is earlier data available for Fife.
  • Associated media
    • Not available
  • Is part of
    • Not available

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

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

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    02/01/1999
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    14/09/2021

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Care
  • Source
    Lims
  • Collection situation
    Services

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    General research use

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Disclosure control
  • Resource creator
    NHS Tayside and 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
    • Not available
  • Linkage opportunity
    Not available
  • Tools
    • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data Dictionary

PROCHI

Anonymised patient identifier

HB_EXTRACT

This field represents the alpha and/or numeric Health Board code in which the patient CH...

SAMPLE_DATE

This field indicates the date when the sample was taken. It is in the format dd MMM yyyy...

SAMPLE_TYPE

This field represents the type of sample taken for the test. The pre-2005 sample type is...

TEST_CODE

This field represents the code for the test taken/performed (e.g. CHLA = Chlamydia PCR)...

LOCALCLINICALCODEDESCRIPTION

This field represents the description of LocalClinicalCode.

RESULT

This field represents the result of the test done in decimal format..

HIC_DERIVEDRESULT

Due to the combination of old and new data the actual result field is spread across thre...

ORIGRESULT

This field represents the original result field from the lab system. HIC extracts the de...

COMMENT

This field represents additional information from the laboratory system in free text.. I...

Variable description

Data type
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