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DataLoch Core

Population Size

800,000

People

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Years

1996

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Associated BioSamples

None/not available

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Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Scotland

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Lead time

Variable

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Summary

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.

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.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Dataset sub-type

Not applicable

Dataset population size

800000

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Persons

Population of Lothian

800000

Count

01 Jan 2021

Provenance

Collection source setting

Primary care - Clinic, Secondary care - Accident and Emergency, Secondary care - In-patients, Services, Prescribing - Community pharmacy, Other

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Details

Publishing frequency

Continuous

Version

2.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Citation Requirements

DataLoch

Coverage

Start date

01/01/1996

Time lag

Other

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, Scotland, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian

Maximum age range

150

Follow-up

Other

Accessibility

Language

en

Controlled vocabulary

LOCAL, READ, ICD10, OPCS4, NHS SCOTLAND NATIONAL CODES

Format

csv

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Not available

Time to dataset access

Variable

Jurisdiction

GB-SCT

Data use limitation

Project-specific restrictions

Data Controller

NHS Lothian

Data Processor

University of Edinburgh

Dataset Types: Health and disease


Collection Sources: Primary care - Clinic, Secondary care - Accident and Emergency, Secondary care - In-patients, Services, Prescribing - Community pharmacy, Other

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