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Tayside Pathology

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Tayside Pathology containing details from pathological samples and biopsy including diagnosis codes. This data originates from Ninewells Pathmanager.

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[{"id": "", "description": "Pathology Data from Ninewells Pathmanager.  Data covers legacy 1992 until present.    Routine updates data received qtrly. However, these are 12months behind real-time. The delay is because further tests and analysis can be requested on a sample, these are generally made withn 12mths of the original sample date. The 12mnths delay reduces the risk that a sample is used in a project, that is subsequently changed/updated.", "name": "Pathology (Tayside)", "dataElementsCount": 11, "dataElements": [{"id": "", "description": "A code that identifies the department.   Separate departments in Ninewells (NS \u2013 Ninewells Surgical, NC \u2013 Ninewells Cytology, PS \u2013 PRI Surgical and PC \u2013 PRI Cytology) until they combined in 2005 when the PS and PC codes were retired..", "name": "DepartmentCode", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This field represents the anonymised specimen number.", "name": "ANOSpecimenNumber", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Anonymised patient identifier", "name": "PROCHI", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This field represents the date of the procedure that produced the specimen.", "name": "DateofSpecimen", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This field up until the beginning of 2016, reflected the date that the request was booked into the LIMS. From 2016 onwards, it is the date that the request was received in the department..", "name": "DateofReceipt", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This field represents  the date that the request is booked into the LIMS. Up until the end of 2015, this field will be identical to the Date Received field. From the beginning of 2016, it may differ..", "name": "DateBookedIn", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This field represents the date of the first authorisation of a report for the request.", "name": "DateAuthorised", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This field represents the date of the most recent authorisation of a report for the request. In the majority of the cases, this will be identical to the date authorised. Where the date differs, it is most likely to be caused by the production of a supplementary report with more information, very occasionally because the report has been amended to correct or clarify information, or sometimes for administration purposes and there will be no obvious change to the data.", "name": "DateLastAuthorised", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "The specimens field has an entry for each request can comprise a number of specimens. This field contains the codes of each of the specimens based on our attempt to best describe the tissue sent in..", "name": "AllSpecimenTypeCodes", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "SNOMED codes applied by the pathologist to best describe the tissue (T code) and diagnosis (M code usually but can be a D, E or F code) within the limits of the system. The SNOMED version that we have been using up to date is SNOMED II which is a rather old system and is likely to be replaced soon..", "name": "AllDiagnosisCodes", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This field represents the test results in # seperated form.", "name": "ResultTextLarge", "type": "PrimitiveType"}]}]
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  • Documentation
    Documentation
  • Language
    English
  • Geographic Area
    Scotland

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  • Publisher
    NHS Tayside
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  • Creator
    Chris Wood
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  • Formal release or publication date
    2023-11-08
  • Geographic Area
    United Kingdom,Scotland,Tayside Region
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    English
  • Provenance
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  • Start time period of data covered by this dataset
    1992-02-01
  • The dataset type
    dataset
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  • Update frequency
    irregular

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