NHS Lothian Critical Care

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.

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Contact Point dataloch@ed.ac.uk
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Landing Page https://web.www.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/0c66419a-c6d5-452e-9e16-ac4c3570b3dc
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Tags DataLoch, ICU,Intensive Care,SICSAG,SIMD,High Dependency Unit, Public Health Scotland,PHS
Publisher NHS Lothian
Geographic Coverage {"United Kingdom,Scotland,City of Edinburgh","United Kingdom,Scotland,East Lothian","United Kingdom,Scotland,West Lothian","United Kingdom,Scotland,Midlothian"}
Start of time period covered by this dataset 1995-01-01
End of time period covered by this dataset
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Access Rights https://researchdata.scot/researcher-support-consultancy-services
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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.
Frequency WEEKLY
Language {en}
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