Up to 30% of older adults (aged 65 years and older) have been diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus. Older diabetics are more likely to experience complications like heart disease, stroke, kidney problems, and nerve damage, leading to higher hospital admission rates. When managing older diabetic patients, healthcare professionals need to consider factors like frailty, polypharmacy (multiple medications), and potential cognitive impairments.
This dataset includes 83,303 people and 366,035 spells, designed to support research which improves diabetic emergency and unplanned care in older adults. It includes highly granular patient demographics & co-morbidities taken from ICD-10 & SNOMED-CT codes. Serial, structured data pertaining to acute care process, presenting complaints, admissions, microbiology results, referrals, all physiology readings (pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate, oxygen saturations and others), all blood results (urea, albumin, platelets, white blood cells and others). Includes all prescribed & administered treatments and all outcomes. Linked images are also available (radiographs, CT scans, MRI).
Geography: The West Midlands (WM) has a population of 6 million & includes a diverse ethnic & socio-economic mix. UHB is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, providing direct acute services & specialist care across four hospital sites, with 2.2 million patient episodes per year, 2750 beds & > 120 ITU bed capacity. UHB runs a fully electronic healthcare record (EHR) (PICS; Birmingham Systems), a shared primary & secondary care record (Your Care Connected) & a patient portal “My Health”.
Data set availability: Data access is available via the PIONEER Hub for projects which will benefit the public or patients. This can be by developing a new understanding of disease, by providing insights into how to improve care, or by developing new models, tools, treatments, or care processes. Data access can be provided to NHS, academic, commercial, policy and third sector organisations. Applications from SMEs are welcome. There is a single data access process, with public oversight provided by our public review committee, the Data Trust Committee. Contact [email protected] or visit www.pioneerdatahub.co.uk for more details.
Available supplementary data: Matched controls; ambulance and community data. Unstructured data (images). We can provide the dataset in OMOP and other common data models and can build synthetic data to meet bespoke requirements.
Available supplementary support: Analytics, model build, validation & refinement; A.I. support. Data partner support for ETL (extract, transform & load) processes. Bespoke and “off the shelf” Trusted Research Environment (TRE) build and run. Consultancy with clinical, patient & end-user and purchaser access/ support. Support for regulatory requirements. Cohort discovery. Data-driven trials and “fast screen” services to assess population size.
Further information including technical details, coverage, format and standards, provenance and related resources can be found on the link below: https://healthdatagateway.org/en/dataset/1109
