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HES Admitted Patient Care data for QResearch
Population Size
35,047,612
People
Years
1997 - 2021
Associated BioSamples
None/not available
Geographic coverage
United Kingdom
England
Lead time
1-2 months
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
Hospital Admissions, NCS, National Core Study
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
Time to dataset access
1-2 months
Access request cost
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