Documentation
Description:
Primary care prescriptions for patients in the Tayside and Fife regions in Scotland. The data contains granular information such as drug strength, unit and dose.
Tayside 1989 – Current; Fife 2009 – onwards.
The data is coded using the BNF standard but can also be provided with SNOMED/DM+D codes, or in the OMOP format.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,Scotland,Tayside Region; United Kingdom,Scotland,Fife
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
Unknown
Pathway:
Primary care prescription data limited to Tayside and Fife regions in Scotland
only.
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Care
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
Primary care - Clinic
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Irregular
Distribution Release Date:
01 July 2021
Start Date:
01 January 1988
Time Lag:
2-6 months
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
Access Service:
HIC has implemented a remote-access Trusted Research Environment to protect data
confidentiality, satisfy public concerns about data loss and reassure Data
Controllers about HIC’s secure management and processing of their data. Data is
not released externally to data users for analysis on their own computers but
placed on a server at HIC, within a restricted, secure IT environment, where the
data user is given secure remote access to carry out their analysis. Full
details are available via the following link:
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/hic/safe-haven
Access Request Cost:
Quotation available on request
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-SCT
Data Controller:
Local NHS boards
Data Processor:
University of Dundee, Health Informatics Centre
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
General research use
Data Use Requirements:
Disclosure control
Resource Creators:
NHS Tayside and fife
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
LOCAL
Languages:
en
Formats:
- CSV
- Database
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
246,630,000 records in the dataset
246630000
Count
12 November 2021
Persons
1,431,000 patients in the dataset
1431000
Prescriptions
12 November 2021