Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 28 Nov 2024 | Updated: 175 days ago
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Description:
DECOVID, a multi-centre research consortium, was founded in March 2020 by two United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trusts (comprising three acute care hospitals) and three research institutes/universities: University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB), University College London Hospitals (UCLH), University of Birmingham, University College London and The Alan Turing Institute. The original aim of DECOVID was to share harmonised electronic health record (EHR) data from UCLH and UHB to enable researchers affiliated with the DECOVID consortium to answer clinical questions to support the COVID-19 response.
The DECOVID database has now been placed within the infrastructure of PIONEER, a Health Data Research (HDR) UK funded data hub that contains data from acute care providers, to make the DECOVID database accessible to external researchers not affiliated with the DECOVID consortium.
This highly granular dataset contains 256,804 spells and 165,414 hospitalised patients. The data includes demographics, serial physiological measurements, laboratory test results, medications, procedures, drugs, mortality and readmission.
Geography: UHB is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, providing direct acute services & specialist care across four hospital sites, with 2.2 million patient episodes per year, 2750 beds & > 120 ITU bed capacity. UCLH provides first-class acute and specialist services in six hospitals in central London, seeing more than 1 million outpatient and 100,000 admissions per year. Both UHB and UCLH have fully electronic health records. Data has been harmonised using the OMOP data model.
Data set availability: Data access is available via the PIONEER Hub for projects which will benefit the public or patients. This can be by developing a new understanding of disease, by providing insights into how to improve care, or by developing new models, tools, treatments, or care processes. Data access can be provided to NHS, academic, commercial, policy and third sector organisations. Applications from SMEs are welcome. There is a single data access process, with public oversight provided by our public review committee, the Data Trust Committee. Contact pioneer@uhb.nhs.uk or visit www.pioneerdatahub.co.uk for more details.
Available supplementary data: Matched controls; ambulance and community data. Unstructured data (images). We can provide the dataset in other common data models and can build synthetic data to meet bespoke requirements.
Available supplementary support: Analytics, model build, validation & refinement; A.I. support. Data partner support for ETL (extract, transform & load) processes. Bespoke and “off the shelf” Trusted Research Environment (TRE) build and run. Consultancy with clinical, patient & end-user and purchaser access/ support. Support for regulatory requirements. Cohort discovery. Data-driven trials and “fast screen” services to assess population size.
Coverage
Typical Age Range:
16-100
Follow Up:
1 - 10 Years
Pathway:
Data is representative of the multi-ethnicity population within the West
Midlands (42% non white) and London (UCLH patients). Data includes all patients
admitted during this timeframe, with National data Opt Outs applied, and
therefore is representative of admissions to secondary care. Data focuses on
in-patient stay in hospital during the acute episode but can be supplemented on
request to include previous and subsequent hospital contacts (including
outpatient appointments) and ambulance, 111, 999 data.
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Care
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
- Secondary care - Accident and Emergency
- Secondary care - In-patients
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Static
Distribution Release Date:
28 November 2024
Start Date:
31 December 2019
End Date:
28 February 2022
Time Lag:
Less than 1 week
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
Trusted Research Environments (TRE) are built using Microsoft Azure services and
hosted in the UK to provide research teams a safe, secure and agile environment
which allows users to quickly analyse, interpret and form an enriched view of
primary care information through a range of integrated datasets. Health data
collated from multiple sources is ingested into a secure data lake which will
then allow subsets of data to be made available to research teams on approval of
a data request. Once approved a customer specific TRE is made available with a
standard set of leading analytical tools from Microsoft including Azure
Databricks, Azure Machine Learning, Azure SQL and Azure Synapse (for large-scale
data warehouses). Specific tools can be provided at an additional cost over the
standard platform data access charge and the PIONEER team will work with you to
determine your exact needs. Access to the TRE is managed using the latest
virtual desktop technology to provide a safe and secure end-user experience. By
utilising leading edge design PIONEER are able to create TREs rapidly to enable
us to service any customer requirement.
Access Request Cost:
www.pioneerdatahub.co.uk/data/data-services-costs/
Delivery Lead Time:
1-2 months
Jurisdictions:
GB-ENG
Data Controller:
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Data Processor:
NOT APPLICABLE
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
General research use
Data Use Requirements:
Project-specific restrictions
Resource Creators:
This publication uses data from PIONEER, an ethically approved database and analytical environment (East Midlands Derby Research Ethics 20/EM/0158)
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- ICD10
- SNOMED CT
- OPCS4
Conforms To:
OMOP
Languages:
en
Formats:
- SQL
- application
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Persons
distinct patient count
165420
Count
10 February 2024