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Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Scotland (MACCS)

Summary

Abstract

The MACCS resource is a national individual-level medicines dataset for adults (18 years of age and older), derived from routinely collected prescribing and medicine-related data held by Public Health Scotland (PHS).

Keywords

Medicines HDRUK Prescribing Homecare Hospital Longitudinal Health

Publisher

  • Identifier
  • Name
    Public Health Scotland
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  • 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.
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Documentation

Description

MACCS resource is a national individual-level medicines dataset for adults (18 years of age and older), derived from routinely collected prescribing and medicine-related data held by Public Health Scotland (PHS). It integrates data from the Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HEPMA), Prescribing Information System (PIS), and Homecare Medicines (HCM) datasets, which are linked at the individual level to eleven other national clinical records; including Scottish Morbidity Records (SMR00/01/02/04/06), laboratory data and mortality records; using the unique NHS Scotland person identifier. Data are curated, harmonised and pre-linked within the National Safe Haven and accessed by approved researchers through secure Trusted Research Environments.
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    • Available resource files can be downloaded below.

      File name

      Data Dictionary Medicines In Acute And Chronic Care Scotland (MACCS)%401.0.1

      Type

      .XLSX

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Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

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Temporal

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  • Distribution release date
    30/09/2025

Provenance

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Access and governance

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Usage

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Access

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Format and standards

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Enrichment and linkage

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Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data Dictionary

ANTIBIOTIC_RES_KEY

antibiotic ID to allow linakge across tables

ORGANISM_KEY

Organsim ID to allow linkage across ECOSS tables

ANTIBIOTIC

Name of antibiotic used in AMR test

SENSITIVITY

Standardised code for sensitivity of Antibiotic

RECORD_STATUS

Antibiotic status - internal variable to determine if it is the finalised record or not.

MIC

Minimum Inhibitory Concentration - the numeric value, up to 2 decimal places

MIC_GREATER

Minimum Inhibitory Concentration - value of 1 indicates the presence of the greater than...

MIC_LESS

Minimum Inhibitory Concentration - value of 1 indicates the presence of the less than sy...

MIC_EQUAL

Minimum Inhibitory Concentration - value of 1 indicates the presence of the equals symbo...

INDICATIONS

Code for EUCAST indication associated with site specific break-points for SIR interpreta...

Variable description

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