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A granular assessment of the day-to-day variation in emergency presentations

Population Size

64,833

People

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Years

2019 - 2021

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Associated BioSamples

None/not available

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Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

England

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Lead time

1-2 months

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Summary

A granular dataset of over 65,000 emergency admissions, with detailed patient flow through hospital detailing day-to-day variation in case mix. Severity, demographics, multi-morbidity, completion of review, interventions, treatments and outcomes.

Documentation

The acute-care pathway (from the emergency department (ED) through acute medical units or ambulatory care and on to wards) is the most visible aspect of the hospital health-care system to most patients. Acute hospital admissions are increasing yearly and overcrowded emergency departments and high bed occupancy rates are associated with a range of adverse patient outcomes. Predicted growth in demand for acute care driven by an ageing population and increasing multimorbidity is likely to exacerbate these problems in the absence of innovation to improve the processes of care.

Key targets for Emergency Medicine services are changing, moving away from previous 4-hour targets. This will likely impact the assessment of patients admitted to hospital through Emergency Departments.

This data set provides highly granular patient level information, showing the day-to-day variation in case mix and acuity. The data includes detailed demography, co-morbidity, symptoms, longitudinal acuity scores, physiology and laboratory results, all investigations, prescriptions, diagnoses and outcomes. It could be used to develop new pathways or understand the prevalence or severity of specific disease presentations.

PIONEER geography: The West Midlands (WM) has a population of 5.9 million & includes a diverse ethnic & socio-economic mix.

Electronic Health Record: University Hospital Birmingham is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, providing direct acute services & specialist care across four hospital sites, with 2.2 million patient episodes per year, 2750 beds & an expanded 250 ITU bed capacity during COVID. UHB runs a fully electronic healthcare record (EHR) (PICS; Birmingham Systems), a shared primary & secondary care record (Your Care Connected) & a patient portal “My Health”.

Scope: All patients with a medical emergency admitted to hospital, flowing through the acute medical unit. Longitudinal & individually linked, so that the preceding & subsequent health journey can be mapped & healthcare utilisation prior to & after admission understood. The dataset includes patient demographics, co-morbidities taken from ICD-10 & SNOMED-CT codes. Serial, structured data pertaining to process of care (timings, admissions, wards and readmissions), physiology readings (NEWS2 score and clinical frailty scale), Charlson comorbidity index and time dimensions.

Available supplementary data: Matched controls; ambulance data, OMOP data, synthetic data.

Available supplementary support: Analytics, Model build, validation & refinement; A.I.; Data partner support for ETL (extract, transform & load) process, Clinical expertise, Patient & end-user access, Purchaser access, Regulatory requirements, Data-driven trials, “fast screen” services.

Dataset type

Health and disease, Measurements/Tests

Dataset sub-type

Not applicable

Dataset population size

64833

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

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Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Persons

64,833 acute general medicine admissions from 01/06/2021 and 01/07/2021

64833

Count

24 Nov 2021

Provenance

Purpose of dataset collection

Care

Source of data extraction

EPR

Collection source setting

Secondary care - Accident and Emergency

Patient pathway description

Data is representative of the multi-ethnicity population within the West Midlands (42% non white). Data includes all patients admitted during this timeframe, with National data Opt Outs applied, and therefore is representative of admissions to secondary care. Data focuses on in-patient stay in hospital during the acute episode but can be supplemented on request to include previous and subsequent hospital contacts (including outpatient appointments) and ambulance, 111, 999 data.

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Quarterly

Version

1.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Distribution release date

24/11/2021

Citation Requirements

This publication uses data from PIONEER, an ethically approved database and analytical environment (East Midlands Derby Research Ethics 20/EM/0158)

Coverage

Start date

31/05/2019

End date

29/06/2021

Time lag

Other

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, England, West Midlands

Minimum age range

16

Maximum age range

105

Follow-up

Other

Accessibility

Language

en

Alignment with standardised data models

LOCAL

Controlled vocabulary

SNOMED CT, ICD10

Format

SQL

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Available

Time to dataset access

1-2 months

Access request cost

www.pioneerdatahub.co.uk/data/data-services-costs/

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

Trusted Research Environments (TRE) are built using Microsoft Azure services and hosted in the UK to provide research teams a safe, secure and agile environment which allows users to quickly analyse, interpret and form an enriched view of primary care information through a range of integrated datasets.

Health data collated from multiple sources is ingested into a secure data lake which will then allow subsets of data to be made available to research teams on approval of a data request. Once approved a customer specific TRE is made available with a standard set of leading analytical tools from Microsoft including Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning, Azure SQL and Azure Synapse (for large-scale data warehouses). Specific tools can be provided at an additional cost over the standard platform data access charge and the PIONEER team will work with you to determine your exact needs.

Access to the TRE is managed using the latest virtual desktop technology to provide a safe and secure end-user experience. By utilising leading edge design PIONEER are able to create TREs rapidly to enable us to service any customer requirement.

Jurisdiction

GB-ENG

Data use limitation

General research use

Data use requirements

Project-specific restrictions

Data Controller

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Dataset Types: Health and disease, Measurements/Tests


Collection Sources: Secondary care - Accident and Emergency

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