Emergency Department Admissions: Analysis of CDS Dataset (part 1)

I analyse an anonymised data dump of 1.9 million admissions records to the emergency departments of an undisclosed NHS Trust for the period June 2017 – September 2021

Well now, this is all très excitant: plein de muffins chauds arriveront bientôt! As many of you know I was handed an anonymised data dump back in September 2021 that provided all manner of very handy diagnostic information culled from the EPR of an undisclosed and rather sizeable NHS Trust. Up to now my focus has been on the in-hospital death side of things but as from today I’m going to flip my fryer and have a look at people who were still alive at the point of admission to an emergency department. I like to call this ‘front door’ medicine.

These days there is a more comprehensive dataset to be had with the advent of the Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) that was first rolled out in 2021. We’re now on release 4.0 of that data set and keen readers can find both details and the history behind these data sets at this link. Here’s the sub-header from the landing page:

The Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the national data set for urgent and emergency care. It replaced Accident and Emergency…