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Outpatient Appointments and Attendances - Scottish Morbidity Record (SMR00)

Summary

This dataset is available through the Researcher Access Service.

Abstract

The Outpatients (SMR00) dataset collects episode level data from patients on new and follow up appointments at outpatient clinics in all specialities (except A&E and Genito-Urinary Medicine).

Keywords

Outpatient 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.
  • Contact point

Documentation

Description

An SMR00 is generated for outpatients receiving care in the specialties listed when: they attend a medical consultant outpatient clinic; they meet with a consultant or senior member of his/her team outwith an outpatient clinic session (including the patient's home); they attend a clinic run by a nurse or an AHP identified as the Health Care Professional Responsible for Care for that clinic and who has legal and clinical responsibility for that patient. The dataset is generally fully complete and ready for analysis three month preceding the current date. So for example at the end of August, data is available until the end of May.
  • Associated media
    • Not available
  • Is part of
    • Available

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/1997
  • End date
    30/09/2025
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    30/09/2025

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Care
  • Source
    Epr
  • Collection situation
    Secondary care - Outpatients

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
    Not available
  • 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

AGE_IN_YEARS

Age

MONTH AND YEAR OF BIRTH

Age in months

SEX

1 = male, 2 = female

ETHNIC_GROUP

ETHNIC GROUP

CLINIC_DATE

Clinic Date (ddmmyy)

SPECIALTY

A1 General Medicine A11 Acute Medicine A2 Cardiology A3 Clinical Genetics A4 Tropical Me...

SIGNIFICANT_FACILITY

11 Other (including all Standard Specialty Wards 1K, Day Bed Unit 1J) 31 Outpatient Dep...

PATIENT_CATEGORY

1 Amenity 2 Paying 3 NHS 4 Overseas visitor - liable to pay for treatment 5 Overseas...

REFERRAL_SOURCE

1 GP 2 Consultant at this Heath Board/ Health Care Provider 4 Consultant from a Heath Bo...

REFERRAL_TYPE

1 New Outpatient: Consultation and Management 2 New Outpatient: Consultation only 3 Foll...

Variable description

Data type
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