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Mental Health Inpatient and Day Case - Scottish Morbidity Record (SMR04)

Summary

This dataset is available through the Researcher Access Service.

Abstract

The Mental Health Inpatient and Day Case dataset (SMR04) collects episode level data on patients who are receiving care at psychiatric hospitals at the point of both admission and discharge.

Keywords

Daycases Psychiatric Inpatients Mental 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 dataset contains a wide variety of information such as patient characteristics, mental health diagnosis, length of stay, destination on discharge, whether they are admitted under Mental Health Legislation and any previous psychiatric care. Patient identifiers such as name, date of birth, Community Health Index number, NHS number, and postcode are included together with a wide variety of geographical measures. This includes the 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

      Mental Health Inpatient And Day Case Scottish Morbidity Record Smr04 Variables

      Type

      .PDF

  • Is part of
    • Available

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/1981
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    Not available

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Care
  • Source
    Epr
  • Collection situation
    Secondary care - In-patients

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    General research use

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    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
    Other

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

Development Data

LIFESTYLE FACTORS

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DEVELOPMENT DATA SECTION

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DEPENDENCY MEASURES

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CLINICAL PROBLEM IDENTIFIER FOR SPELL/CARE PACKAGE

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SEVERITY MEASURES

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CONTRACT CHARGE

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CHRONIC SICK/DISABLED

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ISO-RESOURCE GROUP

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OUTCOME MEASURES

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CONTRACT IDENTIFIER

TBC

Variable description

Data type
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