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SICSAG Episodes (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 an ‘episode of care’ 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
    20/11/2020

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 an ‘episode of care’ in critical care

REASONDISC

Reason discharged

LOWPOTAS

Low potassium

IMMUSUP

Immunosuppression

DISCDELAYED

Discharge delayed

OTHDIAG5

Other diagnosis 5

DATEENDACUTE_THISHOSP

Early end to acute episode in this hospital {date} {version 203 only}

UNITOUTCOME_DERIVED

UnitOutcome_derived

FAILEDAPII

APACHE system failing

CPAP

CPAP during scored period {version 0 only}

TYPEULTHOSP_DERIVED

TypeUltHosp_derived

Variable description

Data type