Emergency attendances
The Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the national data set for urgent and emergency care. ECDS is part of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and is provided to OpenSAFELY via NHS Digital's Secondary Use Service (SUS)
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- Data provider NHS England.
- Participation / Coverage Emergency Department attendances in NHS Trusts in England.
- Available from Data are available from late 2017; however, ECDS was in a pilot phase until 2020 and data are incomplete prior to approximately early 2019.
- Update frequency in OpenSAFELY Approximately monthly.
- Delay between event occurring and event appearing in OpenSAFELY * Approximately 1-2 months.
- Collected information Attendance, admission and discharge dates; locations; presenting complaints; diagnoses.
Diagnoses and discharge destinations are coded using SNOMED CT.