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

I analyse an anonymised ECDS data dump of 237k adult admissions records to the emergency departments of an undisclosed UK NHS Trust for the period January – September 2021

Back on May 6, in part 1 of a 13 part series entitled Emergency Department Admissions: Analysis of CDS Dataset, I promised to flip my fryer and have a look at people who were sufficiently alive to make it through the doors of emergency departments of an unknown NHS Trust over the period January 2017 – September 2021. I mentioned the development of a superior dataset to the old CDS 010, this being the Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) that was first rolled out in January 2021. We’re now on release 4.0 of the new 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 once again:

The Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the national data set for urgent and emergency care. It replaced Accident and Emergency Commissioning Data Set (CDS type 010) and was implemented through: ECDS (CDS 6.2.2 Type 011 and subsequent releases). The latest version of the data set is ECDS v4.0.

ECDS allows NHS England to provide in…