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iCARE ICHT ED dataset

Population Size

Not reported
Population Size statistic card

Years

2015

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Associated BioSamples statistic card

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Geographic coverage statistic card

Lead time

1-2 months

Lead time statistic card

Summary

The iCARE team hosts and manages huge granular patient-level healthcare and biomedical databases from routinely delivered healthcare services; research in ICHT and NW London within the Imperial Secure Data Environment. This dataset includes data related to emergency department care within ICHT.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/iCARE

Documentation

The iCARE team manage the Imperial Secure Data Environment (SDE), hosted within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) NHS infrastructure. The Imperial SDE enables clinicians, researchers and data scientists to access large-scale, highly curated databases for the purposes of research, clinical audit and service evaluation. The SDE enables advanced data analytics through a scalable virtual infrastructure supporting Azure Machine Learning, Python, R and STATA and a large variety of snowflake SQL tooling. (imperial.dcs@nhs.net) The iCARE ICHT tenancy has overarching HRA REC database approval covering all routinely captured information from Imperial College Healthcare Trust (ICHT) Electronic Health Record and 39 linked (at the patient-level) clinical and non-clinical systems. It contains data for all patients from 2015 onwards and is updated weekly as a minimum, and close to real-time when required. This dataset covers outpatient care at IHCT and includes details of emergency care delivered in the EDs at ICHT. It is directly linked to all other iCARE data models and applications are welcome to request linkage between multiple iCARE datasets where necessary to deliver the project. iCARE Data can also be linked to primary care data for the 2.8million population in Northwest London, HRA REC approved, Whole Systems Integrated Care (WSIC) hosted database and other health and social care providers when approved. On a project-by-project basis the model can be expanded to curate and include new data (including multi-modality data), that is either captured routinely or through approved research and clinical trials. There are streamlined processes to approve and curate new data (imperial.dataaccessrequest@nhs.net) and data will always remain hosted in the SDE.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Events

Attended Patient in Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

1500000

Count

16 Sep 2024

Provenance

Purpose of dataset collection

Care

Source of data extraction

EPR

Collection source setting

Secondary care - Accident and Emergency

Patient pathway description

Secondary Care

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Weekly

Version

1.0.0

Modified

24/06/2026

Citation Requirements

This research was enabled by the iCARE Digital Collaboration Space & Secure Data Environment and used the iCARE & WSIC team and data resources. Infrastructure support for this research was provided by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203323) and the NIHR North-West London Patient Safety Research Collaboration (NIHR NWL PSRC, Ref. NIHR204292). The iCARE database was given favourable ethics approval by the South West Central Bristol Research Ethics Committee (reference 21/SW/0120 IRAS project ID 282093). The Whole System Integrated Care (WSIC) database was given favourable ethics approval by the West Midlands Solihull Research Ethics Committee (reference 18/WM/0323 IRAS project ID 252449). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health and Social Care

Coverage

Start date

01/01/2015

Time lag

Not applicable

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Maximum age range

150

Follow-up

Other

Accessibility

Language

en

Alignment with standardised data models

NHS DATA DICTIONARY

Controlled vocabulary

OPCS4, NHS NATIONAL CODES, SNOMED CT, ICD10

Format

Application SQL

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Available

Time to dataset access

1-2 months

Access request cost

On request

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

We have set up a single route for applications to access Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust's (ICHT) de-identified patient data. Please read all the information to https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research-and-impact/groups/icare/icare-facility/information-for-researchers/ before applying to access data.

The iCARE team are happy to support applications for all types of studies requiring access to routine data, however some types of studies may require further approvals or review by other committees, for example:

Transfer of data outside of the Trust Projects that involve contact with patients (e.g. clinical trials) Projects that require access to identifiable data We can provide details of these further approvals as part of the application process.

Jurisdiction

GB-ENG

Data use limitation

General research use

Data use requirements

User-specific restriction,Time limit on use,Project-specific restrictions

Data Controller

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Data Processor

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Dataset Sub-types: Others


Collection Sources: Secondary care - Accident and Emergency