Imperial College London (ICL)

ID 414

An overarching comprehensive dataset does not exist of veteran physical health needs. A resource like this would allow specific health needs to be identified and then mapped to health need provision.

Systematic analysis of current available data There are various sources that contain veteran physical health information (DMWS, VTN, WIS, NHS). Analysis of these datasets would allow an understanding of what data is available and how it can be used to build a picture of veteran physical health needs. These data would not be aggregated so would only give themes of health needs but without any quantification .Analysing the OpRestore dataset and the WIS dataset showed MSK is the most physical health need of the veterans. We wanted to access the veteran’s living in NWL to understand patient characteristics, injury characteristics, mental and social care. This will help us to understand how the veterans go through pathway, their injuries characteristics, mental and social care compared to the veterans in the OpRestore.The main purpose of this project is to identify relevant datasets and analyse the veterans’ health in NHS electronic records. . Though the WSIC database do not have uniform veteran-identifiers, Fear et al have shown that it is possible to identify veterans manually through other search terms. The number of veterans data in the WSIC database is 37,828, with: Still Living in NWL 26,025 Deceased 4,372 Left NWL 7,431 The analysis will be performed on the veterans’ data, to understand the physical health needs, determine the relationship among variables (age, gender, service). The dataset will be compared to the OpRestore to identidy common themes and differences.

20/06/2024

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