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Scottish Birth Record (SBR)

Summary

Abstract

The Scottish Birth Record (SBR) records baby's neonatal care in Scotland, including readmissions and transfers in one electronic record. SBR is completed for all births in Scotland including stillbirths and home births.

Keywords

Neonatal Care Births 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 Scottish Birth Record is a web-based system developed on the NHSNet. It was introduced in 2002 as a replacement for SMR11. It provides the functionality to record all of a baby's neonatal care in Scotland, from antenatal through to post delivery, including readmissions and transfers in one electronic record. SBR is based on individuals and events rather than episodes and is completed for all births including stillbirths and home births. The system has been implemented to varying degrees (either directly or indirectly via interfaces with existing hospital systems) in all Scottish hospitals providing midwifery and/or neonatal care. A CHI number is generated soon after a baby is born in order to minimise the chances of a baby being lost on the database through a change of name after birth. The SBR collects a wide variety of information on the child from birth and during the baby's first year of life, with up to four hundred data items recorded for any one individual. This includes gestation, weight, congenital anomalies and discharge details. Identifiers such as name, date of birth, Community Health Index number and postcode are also included.

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    04/01/2002
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    01/09/2020

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
    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

Scotish Birth Record

ANTE_PARITY_ABOR

Number of previous abortions/ectopic/miscarriages

POSTCODE

Mother postcode

IC_ICU1_DAYS

Number of days in ICU level 1

NEWBORN_FEED_AT_TEN_DAYS

Feeding at 10 days

CODING_BIRTH_MAX_BILIRUBIN

Coded Max Bilirubin

PSEUDO-ANONYMISED ID NUMBER

Pseudo-anonymised id number

CODING_BIRTH_RESUSCITATION

Coded resuscitation

POST_DELIVERY_DISCHARGE_DATE

Post delivery discharge date

EPISODE_TYPE_OF_CARE

Episode type of care

BIRTH_WEIGHT

Birth weight

Variable description

Data type
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