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DataLoch Core

Description

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.

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Technical information

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  },
  "summary": {
    "title": "DataLoch Core",
    "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.",
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    "publisher": {
      "name": "DataLoch",
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    "inPipeline": "Not available",
    "shortTitle": "DataLoch Core",
    "datasetType": "Health and disease",
    "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. \n \nOur 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.",
    "contactPoint": "dataloch@ed.ac.uk",
    "datasetSubType": "Not applicable",
    "populationSize": 800000
  },
  "coverage": {
    "spatial": "United Kingdom,Scotland,East Lothian;,;United Kingdom,Scotland,Midlothian;,;United Kingdom,Scotland,West Lothian",
    "followUp": "Other",
    "typicalAgeRange": "0-150"
  },
  "required": {
    "issued": "2024-10-08T11:32:02.973695Z",
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "modified": "2024-10-08T11:32:02.973708Z",
    "gatewayId": "804",
    "revisions": [
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      }
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  },
  "provenance": {
    "origin": {
      "imageContrast": "Not stated",
      "collectionSituation": "Primary care - Clinic;,;Secondary care - Accident and Emergency;,;Secondary care - In-patients;,;Services;,;Prescribing - Community pharmacy;,;Other"
    },
    "temporal": {
      "timeLag": "Other",
      "startDate": "1996-01-01",
      "accrualPeriodicity": "Continuous"
    }
  },
  "observations": [
    {
      "observedNode": "Persons",
      "measuredValue": 800000,
      "observationDate": "2021-01-01",
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    }
  ],
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      },
      "dataUseLimitation": "Project-specific restrictions"
    },
    "access": {
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      "jurisdiction": "GB-SCT",
      "dataProcessor": "University of Edinburgh",
      "dataController": "NHS Lothian",
      "deliveryLeadTime": "Not applicable",
      "accessRequestCost": "https://dataloch.org/data/how-to-apply"
    },
    "formatAndStandards": {
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      "languages": "en",
      "vocabularyEncodingSchemes": "LOCAL;,;READ;,;ICD10;,;OPCS4;,;NHS SCOTLAND NATIONAL CODES"
    }
  }
}

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Additional information

  • Documentation
    Documentation
  • Language
    English
  • Geographic Area
    Scotland

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  • Publisher
    DataLoch
  • Contact
    dataloch@ed.ac.uk

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Key Details

  • Formal release or publication date
    No information available
  • Start time period of data covered by this dataset
    01/01/1996
  • End time period of data covered by this dataset
    No information available
  • Documentation
    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.
  • Geographic Area
    United Kingdom, Scotland, East Lothian, United Kingdom, Scotland, Midlothian, United Kingdom, Scotland, West Lothian
  • Landing page
  • Language
    English
  • The dataset type
    PHYSICAL
  • Update frequency
    continuous