Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)

Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)#

# define target dataset to document
schema = 'nhsd'
table = 'ECDS'
version = 'v0003'
# import functions from script helper
import sys
script_fp = "../../../../scripts/"
sys.path.insert(0, script_fp)
from data_doc_helper import DocHelper
# create instance
document = DocHelper(schema, table, version, script_fp)
# markdown/code hybrid cell module requirement
from IPython.display import display, Markdown

1. Summary#

display(document.style_table(document.get_dataset_info()))
Dataset descriptor Dataset-specific information
Name of dataset in TRE ECDS
Other name None
Keywords A&E patients, NHS hospitals
Short description Dataset of patients attending Accident and Emergency Departments (including minor injury units and walk-in centres) in England. A record represents one attendance.
Owner NHS England
Geographical coverage England
Temporal coverage 01/10/2017 onwards
TRE temporal coverage 01/10/2017 onwards
Frequency of update Quarterly
Date of last extract None
DOI None
Data resolution A&E attendance
Number of variables None
Number of participants None
Number of observations None
Version None
Key link https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/emergency-care-data-set-ecds
Specific restrictions to data use None

2. Metrics#

The tables below summarise the ECDS dataset in the UK LLC TRE.

Table 1 The number of participants from each LPS that are represented in the ECDS dataset in the UK LLC TRE
(Note: numbers relate to the most recent extract of NHS England data)

display(document.style_table(document.get_cohort_count()))
LPS Participant count
ALSPAC 2314
BCS70 2634
BIB 13855
ELSA 3761
EPICN 7801
EXCEED 4195
FENLAND 4930
GLAD 40739
MCS 9480
NCDS58 2892
NEXTSTEP 2635
NIHRBIO_COPING 7358
NSHD46 1275
TEDS 3683
TRACKC19 5312
TWINSUK 6074
UKHLS 3090
TOTAL 122028

3. Helpful syntax#

Below we will include syntax that may be helpful to other researchers in the UK LLC TRE. For longer scripts, we will include a snippet of the code plus a link to Git where you can find the full script.

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