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Brain Health - Scotland Accident and Emergency

Summary

Abstract

All hospitals with Emergency Departments submit episode level data containing a detailed record for each patient attendance. This is a subset of data for the Brain Health Data Pilot (BHDP) project.

Keywords

Accident & Emergency BHDP Brain Health HDRUK

Publisher

  • Identifier
    7
  • Name
    Public Health Scotland
  • Logo
  • Description
    Public Health Scotland is an NHS Board. We are uniquely sponsored by the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) on behalf of local government.
  • Contact point

Documentation

Description

The Brain Health Data Pilot (BHDP) project aims to be a shared database (like a library) of information for scientists studying brain health, especially for diseases like dementia, which affects about 900,000 people in the UK. Its main feature is a huge collection of brain images linked to routinely collected health records, both from NHS Scotland, which will help scientists learn more about dementia and other brain diseases. What is special about this database is that it will get better over time – as scientists use it and add their discoveries, it becomes more valuable. This dataset is a subset of the Scottish Accident and Emergency data for use with the BHDP project. Accident and Emergency Statistics. The A&E datamart was established in June 2007 to monitor the compliance of each NHS Board against the 4 hour wait standard. In July 2010 the A&E data mart was extended further to collect items such as diagnosis, several injury fields and an alcohol involved flag, which will be used to identify whether the patient’s alcohol consumption was a factor in the attendance. The collection of the new fields has been driven by a variety of SG policy decisions and interest from a number of organisations. Although there is now the facility to submit these additional fields, they are still under development and ISD are working with the NHS Boards to support data collection and quality. There are two types of data submitted to the A&E datamart: episode and aggregate level data. All hospitals with Emergency Departments submit episode level data containing a detailed record for each patient attendance. Some smaller sites with minor injury units or community hospitals only submit aggregate files containing monthly summary attendance and compliance figures only. This is because they do not have the information systems and support to enable collection of detailed patient based information. Sites that submit episode level data account for around 94% of all attendances at A&E.

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/2000
  • End date
    23/05/2024
  • Frequency
    Static
  • Distribution release date
    17/06/2024

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Care
  • Source
    Not available
  • Collection situation
    Secondary care - Accident and Emergency

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    Research-specific restrictions

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Collaboration required, Institution-specific restrictions, Not for profit use
  • Resource creator
    National Services Scotland, Public Health Scotland
  • Is referenced by
    Not available

Access

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    text, csv

Enrichment and linkage

  • Related datasets
    • Not available
  • Linkage opportunity
    Not available
  • Tools
    • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data dictionary

A full list of the codes and definitions for each of the episode level data items is given in the document A&E Data Recording Manual. The Data Recording manual and the AE2 User guide can be both found on the ISD web pages: http://www.isdscotland.org/Products-and-Services/Data-Support-and-Monitoring/Accidentand-Emergency/

DIAGNOSIS1

Mandatory (at least 1 of these 3) (Diagnosis1 / Disease1 / Diagnosis1 Text )

DISEASE1

Mandatory (at least 1 of these 3) (Diagnosis1 / Disease1 / Diagnosis1 Text )

DIAGNOSIS2

Optional

DISEASE2

Optional

DIAGNOSIS3

Optional

DISEASE3

Optional

DATE AND TIME OF FIRST FULL CLINICAL ASSESSMENT

Optional

Variable description

Data type
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