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General Acute Inpatient and Day Case - Scottish Morbidity Record (SMR01)

Summary

This dataset is available through the Researcher Access Service.

Abstract

The General / Acute and Inpatient Day Case dataset (SMR01) collects episode level data on hospital inpatient and day case discharges from acute specialities from hospitals in Scotland.

Keywords

Inpatients Day Case HDRUK

Publisher

  • Identifier
  • 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.
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Documentation

Description

The dataset contains patient identifiers such as name, date of birth, Community Health Index number, NHS number, postcode and ethnicity and episode management data. Of particular interest to researchers would be variables such as where the episode took place, admission type (includes patient injury classifications such as self-inflicted or home accident), waiting times, patients condition (as classified under ICD-10), operations, and discharge location. A wide variety of geographical data is also included in the dataset including Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation and Carstairs measures, census output area, NHS Board, Electoral Ward and Parliamentary constituency.
  • Associated media

    • Available resource files can be downloaded below.

      File name

      General Acute Inpatient And Day Case Scottish Morbidity Record Smr01 Variables

      Type

      .PDF

      File name

      Templatemetadataxmlfile HDR Lookups

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      .XML

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Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
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Temporal

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  • Distribution release date
    15/10/2024

Provenance

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Access and governance

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Usage

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Access

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Format and standards

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Enrichment and linkage

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Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data Dictionary

AGE

Age

MONTH AND YEAR OF BIRTH

Age in month and year

SEX

Sex

ETHNIC_GROUP

ADMISSION_DATE

Date of admission

ADMISSION_TYPE

Inpatient Admission - This is categorised as an emergency, urgent or routine inpatient a...

ADMISSION_REASON

Admission reason indicates the general reason why a patient is admitted for inpatient or...

ADMISSION_TRANSFER_FROM

Indicates the source of admission, or type of location from which a patient has been adm...

DISCHARGE_DATE

Date of discharge

DISCHARGE_TYPE

Discharge type indicates whether a discharge from an inpatient or day case episode is re...

Variable description

Data type
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