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SICSAG Daily (Scottish Intensive Care Audit Group)

Summary

Abstract

The Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group (SICSAG) has maintained a national database of patients admitted to adult general Intensive Care Units (ICU) in Scotland since 1995. Each line relates to a day of stay in critical care.

Keywords

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

Each episode will consist of one or more days stay in critical care - a one to many relationship

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/2019
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Weekly
  • Distribution release date
    24/11/2020

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Administrative
  • 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
  • Resource creator
    Public Health Scotland and Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group
  • 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

Each line relates to a day of stay in critical care.

PULCATH

Pulmonary artery flotation catheter (version 0 only)

HAEMOFILT

Heamofiltration/dialysis

NON_INVASIVE_VENTILATION

1/0.

OTHCOMONI

Other cardiac output monitoring (version 0 only)

LEVEL3DAY

Care on level 3

COMPLEX_DRESSING

Complex dressings (e.g. large skin areas) (version 203 only)

ENDOTUBE

Endotracheal tube

ICPMONI

Invasive neuro monitoring

VENTILATOR

Connected to a ventilator

MANAGEFIFTY

O2 50% or more

Variable description

Data type