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Hospital Episode Statistics Critical Care

Population Size

Not reported
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Years

2007

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

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Geographic coverage

https://www....

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Lead time

Other

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Summary

Record-level patient data set of patients admitted for treatment and receiving Critical Care (intensive care or high dependency care) at NHS hospitals in England. A record represents one episode of Critical Care.

Documentation

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is a database containing details of all admissions, A and E attendances and outpatient appointments at NHS hospitals in England. Adult Critical Care (ACC) is a subset of APC data. An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or High Dependency Unit (HDU) ward in a hospital, known as a critical care unit, provides support, monitoring and treatment for critically ill patients requiring constant support and monitoring to maintain function in at least one organ, and often in multiple organs. Medical equipment is used to take the place of patients’ organs during their recovery. Some critical care units are attached to condition-specific treatment units, such as heart, kidney, liver, breathing, circulation or nervous disorders. Others specialise in neonatal care (babies), paediatric care (children) or patients with severe injury or trauma. Initially this data is collected during a patient's time at hospital as part of the Commissioning Data Set (CDS). This is submitted to NHS Digital for processing and is returned to healthcare providers as the Secondary Uses Service (SUS) data set and includes information relating to payment for activity undertaken. It allows hospitals to be paid for the care they deliver. This same data can also be processed and used for non-clinical purposes, such as research and planning health services. Because these uses are not to do with direct patient care, they are called 'secondary uses'. This is the HES data set. HES data covers all NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England, including: private patients treated in NHS hospitals patients resident outside of England care delivered by treatment centres (including those in the independent sector) funded by the NHS Each HES record contains a wide range of information about an individual patient admitted to an NHS hospital, including: clinical information about diagnoses and operations patient information, such as age group, gender and ethnicity administrative information, such as dates and methods of admission and discharge geographical information such as where patients are treated and the area where they live We apply a strict statistical disclosure control in accordance with the NHS Digital protocol, to all published HES data. This suppresses small numbers to stop people identifying themselves and others, to ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained. https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity

Dataset type

Health and disease

Associated media

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Events

Useable adult critical care records

286224

Count

06 Nov 2021

Provenance

Collection source setting

Secondary care - In-patients

Patient pathway description

Secondary Care pathway. This dataset covers critical care periods for inpatient admissions to hospitals in England. It includes information on the treatment and outcome of the critical care period and can be linked to the HES APC dataset to get further information on the admission relating to the critical care period.

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Monthly

Version

8.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Citation Requirements

NHS ENGLAND

Coverage

Start date

04/01/2007

Time lag

1-2 months

Geographic coverage

https://www.geonames.org/6269131/england.html

Maximum age range

120

Follow-up

Other

Accessibility

Language

en

Controlled vocabulary

OPCS4, NHS NATIONAL CODES, ICD10, OTHER

Format

CSV, JSON

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Not available

Access rights

https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars

Time to dataset access

Other

Access request cost

https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-charges

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

Once your DARS application has been approved, data will be made available either by secure file transfer or through the Data Access Environment (DAE).

Secure file transfer: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/transfer-data-securely

DAE: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-environment-dae

Jurisdiction

GB-ENG

Data use requirements

Ethics approval required,Institution-specific restrictions,Not for profit use,Project-specific restrictions,Time limit on use,User-specific restriction

Data Controller

NHS England (NHSE)

Data Processor

NHS England (NHSE)

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Collection Sources: Secondary care - In-patients