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SICSAG Episodes (Scottish Intensive Care Audit Group)
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The Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group (SICSAG) has maintained a national database of patients admitted to adult general Intensive Care Units (ICU) in Scotland since 1995. Each line relates to an ‘episode of care’ in critical care.
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"Metastatic disease", "name": "MetaDis", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Lowest pO2 H+/pH", "name": "LowpO2pH", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Lowest GCS {motor}", "name": "Motor", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "8hr period with less than 150 ml urine {version 0 only}", "name": "PeriodUrine", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Ready for discharge {version 203 only}", "name": "Declared_Clinically_Ready", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Total urine for scored period", "name": "TotalUrine", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Nature of surgery {in prior 7 days} {version 0 only}", "name": "NatPriorSurg", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Apiiscore adjusted to remove Presedation GCS", "name": "Apiiscore_xPresed_GCS", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Excluded from severity of illness scoring", "name": "ExclSevill", "type": 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"PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Lowest GCS {verbal}", "name": "Verbal", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Elements of pre-sedation available", "name": "SedPtsPresent", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "High systolic BP", "name": "SysBP", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Low heart rate", "name": "LowHR", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "High white cell count", "name": "HighWhiteCell", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Area discharged to", "name": "Unit_Sent_Type", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Admitting specialty", "name": "AdSpec", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Date admitted to Hospital", "name": "AdmitHosp", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Reason ended {final hospital} {version 203 only}", "name": "ReasonEndAcute_FinalHosp", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Surgery in 7 days prior to Unit 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"description": "Corresponding APACHE II Diagnosis", "name": "CorrAPIIDiag", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Outcome on discharge from this hospital", "name": "OutcomeHosp", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Highest level of Care", "name": "Level", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Chronic renal replacement", "name": "ChronRen", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Highest O2% pO2", "name": "HighO2pO2", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Organs donated", "name": "OrgDon", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Pre-sedation GCS {motor}", "name": "PS_Motor", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Sedation {version 0 only}", "name": "Sedation", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Pre-sedation GCS {eyes}", "name": "PS_Eyes", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "High sodium", "name": "HighSodium", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "High urea", "name": "HighUrea", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Ultimate hospital outcome", "name": "OutUltHosp", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Highest O2% pCO2", "name": "HighO2CO2", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Pre-sedation GCS available", "name": "PreSedGCS", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Lowest pO2 O2%", "name": "LowpO2PC", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "High creatinine", "name": "HighCrea", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "ApII Mort pred, both inc and exc PreSed GCS", "name": "Apmortpred", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Location of the substantive area admitted from", "name": "Prior_Source_Housed", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Chronic leukaemia", "name": "ChronLeuk", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Severe respiratory disease", "name": "SevRespr", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Low respiratory rate", "name": "LowRR", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Data Complete", "name": "DataComplete", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Admit_from_derived", "name": "Admit_from_derived", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "id number to link the episode level data with the daily data.", "name": "id", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "ReasonDelayed_derived", "name": "ReasonDelayed_derived", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Primary diagnosis {Hospital}", "name": "PrimeDiagHosp", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Other diagnosis 4", "name": "OthDiag4", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "High central temperature", "name": "HighCentTemp", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Evidence to assess PMH", "name": "EvidPMH", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Admitted for ELECTIVE 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DocumentationDocumentation
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LanguageEnglish
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Geographic AreaScotland
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PublisherPublic Health Scotland
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Contactphs.edris@phs.scot
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Creatormalcolmi
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DocumentationEach episode will consist of one or more days stay in critical care - a one to many relationship.
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Formal release or publication date2021-09-08
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LanguageEnglish
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Start time period of data covered by this dataset2019-01-01
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