Diabetes mellitus affects over 3.9 million people in the United Kingdom (UK), with over 2.6 million people in England alone. Each year more than 1 million people with diabetes are acutely admitted to hospital due to complications of their illness. This includes Diabetic emergencies such as Diabetic Comas, Hypoglycaemia, Diabetic ketoacidosis, and Diabetic Hyperosmolar Hyperglycaemic State.
Diabetic emergency management is often not compliant with national guidelines, and there is a pressing need to improve patient care. This dataset includes 65,506 people and 168,706 spells, designed to support research which improves diabetic emergency and unplanned care. Other causes for admission include diabetic ulcers, neuropathies, kidney disease and associated co-morbidities such as infection, cerebrovascular disease, and cardiovascular disease.
This dataset includes acute all diabetic admissions to University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust from 2000 onwards refreshed to include new admissions as they occur.
Pioneer Geography: The West Midlands (WM) has a population of 5.9 million & includes a diverse ethnic & socio-economic mix (51% non-white within Birmingham).
EHR: 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 & an expanded 250 ITU bed capacity during COVID. 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”.
Scope: All patients admitted to hospital from year 2002 and onwards, curated to focus on Diabetes. Longitudinal & individually linked, so that the preceding & subsequent health journey can be mapped & healthcare utilisation prior to & after admission understood. The dataset includes highly granular patient demographics & co-morbidities taken from ICD-10 & SNOMED-CT codes. It also includes Serial, structured data pertaining to acute care process (timings, staff grades, specialty review, wards, and triage). It also includes presenting complaints, outpatient admissions, microbiology results, referrals, procedures, therapies, all physiology readings (pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate, oxygen saturations and others), all blood results (urea, albumin, platelets, white blood cells and others). Finally, it includes all prescribed & administered treatments and all outcomes. Linked images are also available (radiographs, CT scans, MRI).
Available Supplementary Data: matched controls; ambulance, OMOP data, synthetic data.
Available Supplementary Support: Analytics, model build, validation & refinement; A.I.; data partner support for ETL (extract, transform & load) process, clinical expertise, patient & end-user access, purchaser access, regulatory requirements, data-driven trials, “fast screen” services.
Further information including technical details, coverage, format and standards, provenance and related resources can be found on the link below: https://web.www.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/0d556d7e-be27-4979-a09e-d419b2e838f3
