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HES Admitted Patient Care data for QResearch

Population Size

35,047,612

People

Population Size statistic card

Years

1997 - 2021

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Associated BioSamples statistic card

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

England

Geographic coverage statistic card

Lead time

1-2 months

Lead time statistic card

Summary

Linked Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HES APC) data contain details of admissions to, and attendances at, English NHS providers, including admission and discharge dates, diagnoses, procedures and specialists seen under.

Documentation

Linked Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HES APC) data contains details of all admissions to, or attendances at English NHS healthcare providers. This includes private patients treated in NHS hospitals, patients resident outside of England and care delivered by treatment centres (including those in the independent sector) funded by the NHS. All NHS healthcare providers in England, including acute hospital trusts, primary care trusts and mental health trusts provide data. HES APC data includes the complete set of hospital episode information (admission and discharge dates, diagnoses (identifying primary diagnosis), specialists seen under and procedures undertaken) for each linked patient with a hospitalisation record. In addition, Augmented care data (intensive and/or high dependency levels of care) and Maternity data are available.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Dataset sub-type

Not applicable

Dataset population size

35047612

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Persons

Number of patients matched to single HES identifier

35047612

Count

04 Feb 2022

Provenance

Source of data extraction

EPR

Collection source setting

Secondary care - In-patients

Patient pathway description

Secondary care

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Quarterly

Version

2.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Distribution release date

01/03/2022

Citation Requirements

NHS Digital

Coverage

Start date

01/04/1997

End date

31/03/2021

Time lag

1-2 months

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, England

Maximum age range

115

Follow-up

1 - 10 Years

Accessibility

Language

en

Controlled vocabulary

ICD10, ICD9, ODS, OPCS4

Format

CSV, TSV, Stata, SQL Server Database

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Not available

Access rights

https://www.qresearch.org/information/information-for-researchers/

Time to dataset access

1-2 months

Access request cost

https://www.qresearch.org/information/information-for-researchers/

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

Remote Desktop to dedicated Windows Server.

Standard Server Spec: 16GB RAM, 4 Logical Xeon Gold Processors, 200 GB HDD

Max available Server Spec: 512GB RAM, 72 Logical Xeon Gold Processors, 2TB HDD. Tesla V100 GPU

Jurisdiction

GB-ENG

Data use limitation

Research-specific restrictions,Research use only

Data use requirements

Ethics approval required,Not for profit use

Data Controller

University of Oxford

Data Processor

University of Oxford

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Collection Sources: Secondary care - In-patients

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