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Summary

Abstract

DataLoch brings together routine data collected as part of people’s interactions with health care services in South-East Scotland. These data include details of visits to hospitals or GPs, treatments, medicines prescribed, outcomes and test results.

Keywords

Lothian Edinburgh GP DATA Hospital Inpatient data SMR Mental Health Laboratory Critical Care Death Prescriptions COVID-19 Primary Care Secondary Care Scottish Morbidity General Practice TrakCare NRS National Records of Scotland SICSAG Labs Electronic Health Record Research

Publisher

  • Name
    DataLoch
  • Logo

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  • Description
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  • Contact point
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Documentation

Description

DataLoch works with data in several ways, including: collaborating with clinicians to improve the data quality; linking datasets to enable broad insights; translating data into common standard definitions; and maintaining a high-quality metadata dictionary. Critical to this work is the involvement of clinical experts from NHS Scotland who have a detailed understanding of routine data in health care and help the DataLoch team make sure the data are research-ready. Our initial focus was on building a COVID-19 dataset to support clinicians and NHS partners in their ongoing COVID-19 response. These data have proven to be an invaluable resource enabling researchers and clinicians to generate new knowledge and insights. Feedback from our early contributors has helped inform improvements to the process and development of the data to support research beyond COVID-19.

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland, East Lothian, United Kingdom, Scotland, Midlothian, United Kingdom, Scotland, West Lothian

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/1996
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Continuous
  • Distribution release date
    Not available

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Not available
  • Source
    Not available
  • Collection situation
    Primary care - Clinic, Secondary care - Accident and Emergency, Secondary care - In-patients, Services, Prescribing - Community pharmacy, Other

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    Project-specific restrictions

Requesting access to this data

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Not available
  • Resource creator
    DataLoch
  • Is referenced by
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Access

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    Csv

Enrichment and linkage

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

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

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