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Description

DataLoch brings together routine data collected as part of people’s interactions with health care services in South-East Scotland. These data include details of visits to hospitals or GPs, treatments, medicines prescribed, outcomes and test results.

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covid-19 critical-care death edinburgh electronic-health-record general-practice gp-data hospital-inpatient-data laboratory labs lothian mental-health national-records-of-scotland nrs prescriptions primary-care research scottish-morbidity secondary-care sicsag smr trakcare

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  • Publisher
    NHS Lothian
  • Contact
    dataloch@ed.ac.uk
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Key Details

  • Activity that generated the dataset
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  • Conforms to
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  • Creator
    Chris Wood
  • Documentation
    DataLoch works with data in several ways, including: collaborating with clinicians to improve the data quality; linking datasets to enable broad insights; translating data into common standard definitions; and maintaining a high-quality metadata dictionary. Critical to this work is the involvement of clinical experts from NHS Scotland who have a detailed understanding of routine data in health care and help the DataLoch team make sure the data are research-ready. Our initial focus was on building a COVID-19 dataset to support clinicians and NHS partners in their ongoing COVID-19 response. These data have proven to be an invaluable resource enabling researchers and clinicians to generate new knowledge and insights. Feedback from our early contributors has helped inform improvements to the process and development of the data to support research beyond COVID-19.
  • End time period of data covered by this dataset
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  • Formal release or publication date
    2022-11-29
  • Geographic Area
    United Kingdom,Scotland,East Lothian,United Kingdom,Scotland,Midlothian,United Kingdom,Scotland,West Lothian
  • Landing page
  • Language
    English
  • Provenance
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  • Start time period of data covered by this dataset
    1996-01-01
  • The dataset type
    dataset
  • Theme/category
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  • Update frequency
    continuous

Versions and updates

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Further details

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  • Qualified attribution
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  • Sample distribution of the dataset
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  • The minimum spacial separation resolvable in the dataset, measured in meters
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  • The minimum time period resolvable in the dataset
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