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Scotland Accident and Emergency - Research Data Access Pathway subset

Summary

This dataset is available through the Research Data Access Pathway

Abstract

This dataset includes data items from the national A&E DataMart, the Community Health Index (CHI) database and derived chronic conditions items based on linked hospital admissions data

Keywords

Health Accident Emergency Patient HDRUK

Publisher

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

Documentation

Description

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, completeness and quality of the data is generally poor and further development is needed to improve it. 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 97% of all attendances at A&E. This linked version of the dataset includes only A&E data submitted at episode level. Additional items are included to enable further analysis: chronic conditions flags, based on historic hospital admissions data; a care home flag derived from the CHI database

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/2011
  • End date
    31/05/2026
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    31/05/2026

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Care
  • Source
    Epr
  • Collection situation
    Secondary care - Accident and Emergency

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    General research use, Project-specific restrictions, Research-specific restrictions

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Disclosure control, 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

Data items from the national A&E DataMart, the Community Health Index (CHI) database and derived chronic conditions items based on linked hospital admissions data

PATIENT_GENDER_CODE

Gender code for the patient

PATIENT_GENDER_DESCRIPTION

Gender description for the patient

MONTH AND YEAR OF BIRTH

The date when a person was born or is officially deemed to have been, as recorded on the...

AGE_IN_YEARS

Age at attendance

ARRIVAL_DATE_TIME

The date and time a person arrives at an A&E reception or is received into the A&E depar...

DISCHARGE_DATE_TIME

The date and time of a patient's discharge from an A&E department.

ARRIVAL_MODE_CODE

The substantive means by which a patient arrived at an A&E department. For example ambul...

ARRIVAL_MODE_DESCRIPTION

The name of the transportation type by which a patient arrives at an A&E department.

ATTENDANCE_CATEGORY_CODE

A record of whether a patient is making a first or follow-up attendance at a particular ...

ATTENDANCE_CATEGORY_DESC

The name of the type of record of whether a patient is making a first or follow-up atten...

Variable description

Data type
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