Deaths – Date of Death

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{
  "summary": {
    "title": "Deaths – Date of Death",
    "abstract": "This dataset provides the definitive date of death for patients in Scotland.",
    "keywords": "Scotland;,;Death;,;Date;,;GRO;,;HIC",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "Health Informatics Centre - University of Dundee",
      "gatewayId": "5baa31c1-0280-4482-b8b7-a4953869f184"
    },
    "inPipeline": "Not available",
    "shortTitle": "Deaths – Date of Death",
    "datasetType": "Health and disease",
    "description": "This dataset combines the death status from various sources into a single dataset with rules applied to decide which date of death is more accurate when the information differs between sources. Tayside Circa. 1980 – Current; Fife: 2009 - Current.",
    "contactPoint": "hicsupport@dundee.ac.uk",
    "datasetSubType": "Not applicable",
    "populationSize": 2507000
  },
  "coverage": {
    "pathway": "Death data is sourced from either the Scottish General Registry Office or the Community Health Index data feeds.",
    "spatial": "United Kingdom,Scotland",
    "followUp": "Unknown",
    "typicalAgeRange": "0-150"
  },
  "required": {
    "issued": "2024-10-08T11:28:29.379098Z",
    "version": "4.0.0",
    "modified": "2024-10-08T11:28:29.379108Z",
    "gatewayId": "108",
    "revisions": [
      {
        "url": "https://web.prod.hdruk.cloud//dataset/108?version=1.0.0",
        "version": "1.0.0"
      }
    ],
    "gatewayPid": "1d9410a8-3f78-4386-8e09-a8efdcb38f81"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "origin": {
      "source": "Other",
      "purpose": "Administrative",
      "imageContrast": "Not stated",
      "collectionSituation": "Other"
    },
    "temporal": {
      "timeLag": "1-2 weeks",
      "startDate": "2000-01-01",
      "accrualPeriodicity": "Continuous",
      "distributionReleaseDate": "2021-07-15"
    }
  },
  "observations": [
    {
      "observedNode": "Persons",
      "measuredValue": 2507000,
      "observationDate": "2021-11-12",
      "measuredProperty": "Count",
      "disambiguatingDescription": "2,507,000 patients in the dataset"
    },
    {
      "observedNode": "Events",
      "measuredValue": 2200000,
      "observationDate": "2021-07-15",
      "measuredProperty": "Count",
      "disambiguatingDescription": "2.2 million dates of death"
    }
  ],
  "accessibility": {
    "usage": {
      "resourceCreator": {
        "name": "Public Health Scotland"
      },
      "dataUseLimitation": "General research use",
      "dataUseRequirement": "Disclosure control"
    },
    "access": {
      "accessRights": "https://www.dundee.ac.uk/hic/governance-service",
      "jurisdiction": "GB-SCT",
      "accessService": "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.\n\nData 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.\n\nFull details are available via the following link:\nhttps://www.dundee.ac.uk/hic/safe-haven",
      "dataProcessor": "University of Dundee, Health Informatics Centre",
      "dataController": "Local NHS boards",
      "deliveryLeadTime": "Not applicable",
      "accessRequestCost": "Quotation available on request",
      "accessServiceCategory": "TRE/SDE"
    },
    "formatAndStandards": {
      "formats": "CSV;,;Database",
      "languages": "en",
      "vocabularyEncodingSchemes": "LOCAL"
    }
  },
  "structuralMetadata": [
    {
      "name": "CHI_Deaths",
      "columns": [
        {
          "name": "CHI",
          "dataType": "varchar",
          "sensitive": false,
          "description": "Patient identifier - community health index number"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Patient death dates derived from the Community Health Index (CHI) and General Registry Office (GRO) datasets."
    },
    {
      "name": "CHI_Deaths",
      "columns": [
        {
          "name": "mCHI",
          "dataType": "varchar",
          "sensitive": false,
          "description": "Patient identifier - master community health index number"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Patient death dates derived from the Community Health Index (CHI) and General Registry Office (GRO) datasets."
    },
    {
      "name": "CHI_Deaths",
      "columns": [
        {
          "name": "date_of_death",
          "dataType": "date",
          "sensitive": false,
          "description": "Date of death of patient"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Patient death dates derived from the Community Health Index (CHI) and General Registry Office (GRO) datasets."
    },
    {
      "name": "CHI_Deaths",
      "columns": [
        {
          "name": "source",
          "dataType": "varchar",
          "sensitive": false,
          "description": "Record sourced from CHI, GRO or both?"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Patient death dates derived from the Community Health Index (CHI) and General Registry Office (GRO) datasets."
    },
    {
      "name": "CHI_Deaths",
      "columns": [
        {
          "name": "extractable",
          "dataType": "varchar",
          "sensitive": false,
          "description": "Record fit to be extracted and used for analysis?"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Patient death dates derived from the Community Health Index (CHI) and General Registry Office (GRO) datasets."
    }
  ]
}