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Publication, Part of HES-DID Data Linkage Report
HES-DID Data Linkage Report - Provisional Summary Statistics, April 2015-December 2015 (Experimental Statistics)
Official statistics- Publication Date:
- 5 May 2016
- Geographic Coverage:
- England
- Geographical Granularity:
- Country
- Date Range:
- 01 Apr 2015 to 31 Dec 2015
Summary
This is the latest statistical publication of linked HES (Hospital Episode Statistics) and DID (Diagnostic Imaging Dataset) data held by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The HES-DID linkage provides the ability to undertake national (within England) analysis along acute patient pathways to understand typical imaging requirements for given procedures, and/or the outcomes after particular imaging has been undertaken, thereby enabling a much deeper understanding of outcomes of imaging and to allow assessment of variation in practice.
This publication aims to highlight to users the availability of this updated linkage and provide users of the data with some standard information to assess their analysis approach against.
The two data sets have been linked using specific patient identifiers collected in HES and DID. The linkage allows the data sets to be linked from April 2012 when the DID data was first collected; however this report focuses on patients who were present in either data set for the period April 2015-December 2015 only. For DID this is provisional 2015/16 data. For HES this is provisional 2015/16 data.
The linkage used for this publication was created on 08 April 2016 and released together with this publication on 05 May2016.
Highlights
In the period April 2015-December 2015:
- 29.6 million imaging procedures were recorded in the Diagnostic Imaging Dataset as having taken place. It was possible to link 27.2 million of these records to individuals in the Hospital Episode Statistics data set.
- 4.6 million patients who were admitted to hospital at least once were identified as having at least one imaging procedure during the same period.
- 5.4 million patients who had at least one accident and emergency attendance were identified as having at least one imaging procedure during the same period.
- 9.2 million patients who had at least one outpatient appointment were identified as having at least one imaging procedure during the same period.
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