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Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 228 days ago

National Asthma and COPD Audit (NACAP): COPD secondary care clinical dataset

Dataset

Documentation

Description:
A continuously ascertained, record level dataset of patients admitted to hospital in England and Wales with COPD since February 2017, with Scotland joining in late 2018. The dataset includes information on patient demographics, acute observations, admission and review, comorbidities and discharge.

Coverage

Spatial:
United Kingdom,Wales; United Kingdom,England
Typical Age Range:
35-100
Follow Up:
0 - 6 Months
Pathway:
Include patients: - who are 35 years and over on the date of admission, - who have been admitted to hospital adult services, - who have a primary diagnosis of COPD exacerbation, - where an initial, or unclear, diagnosis is revised to an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD). Also following ICD-10 codes in the primary position of the first episode of care: • J44.0 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection. • J44.1 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute exacerbation, unspecified • J44.8 - Other specified chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • J44.9 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified.

Provenance

Origin

Purposes:
Audit
Sources:
Electronic survey
Collection Situations:
  • Secondary care - In-patients
  • Secondary care - In-patients
  • Secondary care - Accident and Emergency

Temporal

Accrual Periodicity:
Continuous
Start Date:
01 February 2017
Time Lag:
Variable

Accessibility

Access

Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-EAW
Data Controller:
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership jointly with NHS England
Data Processor:
Crown Informatics Limited (patient identifiable information) Royal College of Physicians (RCP), NACAP team (service level aggregated data only) Imperial College London (service level aggregated dat only)

Usage

Data Use Limitations:
No restriction
Data Use Requirements:
Project-specific restrictions
Resource Creators:
Data has been provided by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership from the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme

Format and Standards

Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
  • ICD10
  • OTHER
Languages:
en
Formats:
  • Excel
  • CSV

Observations

Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Findings
median percentage case ascertainment
58
percentage
24 June 2021