National IDB File Information (Minimum Data Set)
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Country
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United Kingdom (England)
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Year
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2011
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National Register Name
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Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency (HES AE)
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Purpose of the register
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To record attendances at major A&E departments, single specialty A&E departments, minor injuries units and walk-in centres in England
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Scope of the register
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Covers all injuries, all settings, all age groups, all intents, all A&E treatments
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Data file name (MDS)
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UKmds2011
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Date of creation of MDS file
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20130614
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Range of data of attendance
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20110101
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20111231
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Original coding dictionary
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HES AE data dictionary
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Dictionary modifications
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Codes from original coding dictionary above re-coded into MDS data dictionary (IDB JAMIE manual – March 2013 vrs)
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Bridge coding applied
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HES AE national codes into JAMIE MDS codes
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No. of records in the data file
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0565751
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No. of MDS reference hospitals
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029
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Geographic scope
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Selected hospitals in England with good quality data
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Hospital characteristics used for a representative sample of hospitals
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Hospitals have been selected based on the completeness/quality of the data records in their system.
Records from selected hospitals were compared with the national dataset to determine their representativeness. There was no major difference observed in terms of average age, male/female split, average number of patients per hospital, and deprivation of patients.
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Sampling of cases within hospitals
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NA
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Percentage of admissions in data file
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07.3%
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Relative sample size (admissions)
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11.5%
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Relative sample size (ambulatory treatments)
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12.5%
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Minimum Quality Control Checks
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Yes
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Average percentage of “unknown””
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14.1%
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Method for extrapolation from sample to national incidence
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2) Based on national figures of injury cases of ambulatory treatments (if statistic of treatments in emergency department is available)
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Reference population data provided
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Reference population data shall be provided in the requested format in order to allow for the calculation of crude incidence rates
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(Eventual) additional comments (for the user):
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(i) Certain fields have a high number of unknown values: Intent (37.5%); Mechanism of injury (76.5%); Activity (87.6%)
(ii) Certain values could not be derived for particular fields:
- Nature of Injury – no ‘Multiple injuries’
- Location of injury – no ‘Road’
- Mechanism of injury – no ‘Fall or Other’
- Activity when injured – no ‘Other’
(iii) The Narrative field has been left blank due to confidentiality constraints
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Responsible data administrator (organization)
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College of Medicine, Swansea University
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Contact: Responsible person
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Steven Macey
College of Medicine, Institute of Life Sciences Building 2 (ILS2), Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP
(01792) 602349
s.m.macey@swansea.ac.uk
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Signature
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Date of completion of this file
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20130617
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