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NHS Lothian Critical Care

Description

Data relating to patients requiring critical care treatment (i.e. in intensive care and high-dependency units) in the NHS Lothian area, such as admissions, severity of illness, organ-support treatments and therapies, and outcomes of treatment.

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Technical information

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    "title": "NHS Lothian Critical Care",
    "abstract": "Data relating to patients requiring critical care treatment (i.e. in intensive care and high-dependency units) in the NHS Lothian area, such as admissions, severity of illness, organ-support treatments and therapies, and outcomes of treatment.",
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    "publisher": {
      "name": "DataLoch",
      "gatewayId": "6853e904-ed51-448b-b78d-55dee6d1a40f"
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    "inPipeline": "Not available",
    "shortTitle": "NHS Lothian Critical Care",
    "datasetType": "Health and disease",
    "description": "NHS Lothian Regional Patients' data for visits to critical care (High Dependency or Intensive Care), as recorded in the Ward Watcher systems, at NHS Lothian hospitals: Royal Infirmary Edinburgh (RIE), Western General Hospital (WGH) or St John's Hospital at Howden. A limited extract of the regional database contributes to the Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group (SICSAG) database of patients admitted to adult general Intensive Care Units (ICU) in Scotland. Dataset include episodes, admission specialties, severity of illness (APACHE acute physiology), treatments (such as therapies, ACP, drugs, trials) and infections (Healthcare Associated Infections also known as Hospital Acquired Infections or nosocomial infections) and obstetrics.",
    "contactPoint": "dataloch@ed.ac.uk",
    "datasetSubType": "Not applicable",
    "populationSize": -1
  },
  "coverage": {
    "pathway": "Critical care data, limited to NHS Lothian.",
    "spatial": "United Kingdom,Scotland,City of Edinburgh;,;United Kingdom,Scotland,East Lothian;,;United Kingdom,Scotland,West Lothian;,;United Kingdom,Scotland,Midlothian",
    "followUp": "Other",
    "typicalAgeRange": "0-150"
  },
  "required": {
    "issued": "2024-10-08T11:32:03.75014Z",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "modified": "2024-10-08T11:32:03.750151Z",
    "gatewayId": "810",
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  },
  "provenance": {
    "origin": {
      "imageContrast": "Not stated",
      "collectionSituation": "Secondary care - In-patients"
    },
    "temporal": {
      "timeLag": "1-2 weeks",
      "startDate": "1995-01-01",
      "accrualPeriodicity": "Weekly"
    }
  },
  "observations": [
    {
      "observedNode": "Events",
      "measuredValue": 17000,
      "observationDate": "2022-08-17",
      "measuredProperty": "Count",
      "disambiguatingDescription": "Number of critical care admissions"
    }
  ],
  "accessibility": {
    "usage": {
      "resourceCreator": {
        "name": "Public Health Scotland,  Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group"
      },
      "dataUseLimitation": "Project-specific restrictions"
    },
    "access": {
      "accessRights": "https://dataloch.org/data/how-to-apply",
      "jurisdiction": "GB-SCT",
      "accessService": "https://dataloch.org/data/how-to-apply",
      "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": "OTHER"
    }
  }
}

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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
    01/01/1995
  • End time period of data covered by this dataset
    No information available
  • Documentation
    NHS Lothian Regional Patients' data for visits to critical care (High Dependency or Intensive Care), as recorded in the Ward Watcher systems, at NHS Lothian hospitals: Royal Infirmary Edinburgh (RIE), Western General Hospital (WGH) or St John's Hospital at Howden. A limited extract of the regional database contributes to the Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group (SICSAG) database of patients admitted to adult general Intensive Care Units (ICU) in Scotland. Dataset include episodes, admission specialties, severity of illness (APACHE acute physiology), treatments (such as therapies, ACP, drugs, trials) and infections (Healthcare Associated Infections also known as Hospital Acquired Infections or nosocomial infections) and obstetrics.
  • Geographic Area
    United Kingdom, Scotland, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Scotland, East Lothian, United Kingdom, Scotland, West Lothian, United Kingdom, Scotland, Midlothian
  • Landing page
  • Language
    English
  • The dataset type
    PHYSICAL
  • Update frequency
    weekly