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Available services, data, application processes and cost, and working within our Trusted Research Environment (TRE)

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About the data

HIC regional Safe Haven data is high quality granular local data with available linkage. We can provide regional access to NHS data from the following health boards: NHS Tayside, NHS Fife, and NHS Forth Valley, representing about 20% of the Scottish population. We host over 170 datasets of different types of data. We have significant resource of clinical images with over 43 million images, including Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), Position Emission Tomography (PET), ultrasounds from echocardiograms, and X-rays. We also host datasets from the national Scottish Medical Records (SMR) held by Information Services Division of NHS Scotland, including:

Outpatient attendance (SMR00)
General acute hospital admissions (SMR01)
Maternity records (SMR02)
Mental health hospital admission (SMR04)
and the Scottish Cancer Registry (SMR06)

We also offer synthetic data that includes demography, prescribing, hospital admissions, biochemistry, and maternity data, which you can explore on our GitHub repository: SynthEHR. This data uses real data to make an artificial dataset that contains no information about real people but follows the same patterns and structure as real data.

HIC curates a variety of health and health-related datasets including clinical, lab, and population health datasets. Please explore our available data on the Discovery portal where Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are published. We are working on automatically populating our data registry via the Health Data Research UK Gateway in the future.

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Sensitive data area	Dataset	Coverage	Time period	Approx. sample size	%F	DOI
Cardiovascular	Echocardiogram (ECHO)	Tayside and Fife	1994 >	279,520	49.9%	10.15132/10000214
Diabetes	Diabetes	Tayside and Fife	2006 >	106,000	47.3%	10.15132/10000203
Endocrinology	Renal Register	Tayside and Fife	2002 >	2,800	42.6%	10.15132/10000232
Pharmacy	Community Dispensed Prescribing	Tayside and Fife	1989 >	1.4 million	52.7%	10.15132/10000210
Public Health	Bowel Screening	Tayside	2000 – 2019	158,000	50.9%	10.15132/10000205
Public Health	Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)	National	2004 – 2016	Dynamic		10.15132/10000237

Datasets	Coverage	Time period	Approx. sample size	% F	DOI
Biochemistry	Tayside and Fife	1992 >	1.1 million	54.0%	10.15132/10000215
Haematology	Tayside and Fife	1992 >	981,000	54.1%	10.15132/10000218
Immunology	Tayside and Fife	1993 >	385,000	59.4%	10.15132/10000230
Microbiology	Tayside and Fife	1998 >	514,000 129,000	57.7%	T 10.15132/10000223 F 10.15132/10000228
Pathology	Tayside	1992 >	330,000	57.1%	10.15132/10000212
Virology	Tayside	1995 - 2013	341,000	57.8%	10.15132/10000208
Lighthouse	Tayside and Fife	2019 - 2021	110,000	52.0%	10.15132/10000211

Datasets	Coverage	Time period	Approx. sample size	% F	DOI
Community Health Index (CHI)	National	1989 >	Dynamic
Death certificate data	National	1988 >	734,000	51.4%	10.15132/10000226
Death data	Tayside and Fife	1980 >	2.5 million	51.1%	10.15132/10000220
Demography	National	2009 >	11.7 million	51.5%	10.15132/10000221
Scottish Population Health Research Register (SHARE) and BioBank	National	2013 >	305,000	60.1%	10.15132/1000021651.4%

Datasets	Coverage	Time period	Approx. sample size	Source
SMR00 (Outpatient hospital admissions)	Tayside and Fife	1997 >	1.2 million	SMR data manual
SMR01 (Acute stay hospital admissions)	Tayside and Fife	1981 >	1.1 million	SMR data manual
SMR02 (Maternity)	Tayside and Fife	1975 >	187,000	SMR data manual
SMR04 (Psychiatric hospital admissions)	Tayside and Fife	1981 >	41,000	SMR data manual
SMR06 (Cancer)	Tayside and Fife	1980 >	225,000	SMR data manual

Dataset	Coverage	Time period	Approx. sample size	%F	DOI
Accident & Emergency (A&E)	Tayside and Fife	2004 >	3,144,190	49.4%	10.15132/10000209
A&E Diagnosis	Tayside	2003 – 2017	1,019,250	48.3%	10.15132/10000222
A&E Prescribing	Tayside	2003 – 2017	166,380	45.7%	10.15132/10000213
National Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Hypoglycaemic Events	Tayside and Fife	2008 – 2021	22,300		10.15132/10000219

Modality	Individuals (n)	Images (n)	Series (n)	Studies (n)	Females (%)
Computed Radiography	199,630	967,480	968,090	565,690	54.8%
Ultrasound	140,840	4,697,700	260,450	230,190	63.9%
Computed Tomography	136,960	173,691,170	1,345,770	293,810	47.5%
Magnet Resonance	75,810	45,388,700	1,503,500	127,190	54.6%
X-ray Angiography	34,250	735,740	185,520	46,240	46.0%
Mammography	30,350	298,820	214,290	62,260	97.9%
Other	20,870	1,423,740	34,690	28,430	63.5%
Presentation State	16,810	127,950	43,680	21,250	53.6%
Digital Radiography	15,500	477,620	454,450	368,390	52.3%
Radio Fluoroscopy	14,570	533,190	133,680	17,160	57.4%
Intra-oral Radiography	10,690	31,975	21,160	17,730	50.3%
Position Emission Tomography	5,420	3,455,930	17,080	5,950	49.0%
Secondary Capture	3,980	7,030	4,560	4,510	55.5%
External-camera Photography	2,960	6,620	3,690	3,700	41.8%

Data linkage

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We host routinely collected health data and can provide access to unique project data extracts within our TRE. Our expertise in data, means that we can bring together new data securely depending on your requirements. Please contact us for consultation of available data that may enhance your project data linkage. You define your cohort, and we can link electronic health records, demographics, public records or new data. Our expert team will quality assure and curate the data, and provide you access to them in the TRE as your unique project data extract.

Pain data hub

We are one of nine HDR UK data hubs. The UK wide Alleviate Pain Data Hub aims to address the unmet need in chronic pain research. We specialize in applying FAIR data principles to UK wide pain datasets, and can be seen as a ‘search engine’ for discovering existing pain data. Our TRE provides a common entry point for the Alleviate Pain Data Hub.

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