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Description:
DataLoch works with data in several ways, including: collaborating with clinicians to improve the data quality; linking datasets to enable broad insights; translating data into common standard definitions; and maintaining a high-quality metadata dictionary. Critical to this work is the involvement of clinical experts from NHS Scotland who have a detailed understanding of routine data in health care and help the DataLoch team make sure the data are research-ready.
Our initial focus was on building a COVID-19 dataset to support clinicians and NHS partners in their ongoing COVID-19 response. These data have proven to be an invaluable resource enabling researchers and clinicians to generate new knowledge and insights. Feedback from our early contributors has helped inform improvements to the process and development of the data to support research beyond COVID-19.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,Scotland,East Lothian; United Kingdom,Scotland,Midlothian; United
Kingdom,Scotland,West Lothian
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
Other
Provenance
Origin
Collection Situations:
- Primary care - Clinic
- Secondary care - Accident and Emergency
- Secondary care - In-patients
- Services
- Prescribing - Community pharmacy
- Other
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Continuous
Start Date:
01 January 1996
Time Lag:
Other
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-SCT
Data Controller:
NHS Lothian
Data Processor:
University of Edinburgh
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
Project-specific restrictions
Resource Creators:
DataLoch
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- LOCAL
- READ
- ICD10
- OPCS4
- NHS SCOTLAND NATIONAL CODES
Languages:
en
Formats:
csv
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Persons
Population of Lothian
800000
Count
01 January 2021