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NHS Lothian Critical Care

Population Size

Not reported
Population Size statistic card

Years

1995

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Associated BioSamples statistic card

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Scotland

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Geographic coverage statistic card

Lead time

Variable

Lead time statistic card

Summary

Data relating to patients requiring critical care treatment (i.e. in intensive care and high-dependency units) in the NHS Lothian area, such as admissions, severity of illness, organ-support treatments and therapies, and outcomes of treatment.

Documentation

NHS Lothian Regional Patients' data for visits to critical care (High Dependency or Intensive Care), as recorded in the Ward Watcher systems, at NHS Lothian hospitals: Royal Infirmary Edinburgh (RIE), Western General Hospital (WGH) or St John's Hospital at Howden. A limited extract of the regional database contributes to the Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group (SICSAG) database of patients admitted to adult general Intensive Care Units (ICU) in Scotland. Dataset include episodes, admission specialties, severity of illness (APACHE acute physiology), treatments (such as therapies, ACP, drugs, trials) and infections (Healthcare Associated Infections also known as Hospital Acquired Infections or nosocomial infections) and obstetrics.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Dataset sub-type

Not applicable

Associated media

https://dataloch.org/data/about-the-data

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Events

Number of critical care admissions

17000

Count

17 Aug 2022

Provenance

Collection source setting

Secondary care - In-patients

Patient pathway description

Critical care data, limited to NHS Lothian.

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Details

Publishing frequency

Weekly

Version

1.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Citation Requirements

Public Health Scotland, Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group

Coverage

Start date

01/01/1995

Time lag

1-2 weeks

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, Scotland, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Midlothian

Maximum age range

150

Follow-up

Other

Accessibility

Language

en

Controlled vocabulary

OTHER

Format

text/csv

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Not available

Access rights

https://dataloch.org/data/how-to-apply

Time to dataset access

Variable

Access request cost

https://dataloch.org/data/how-to-apply

Access service description

https://dataloch.org/data/how-to-apply

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: Secondary care - In-patients

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