Access and validation

Governance details

Documents or webpages that describe the overall governance of the data source and processes and procedures for data capture and management, data quality check and validation results (governing data access or utilisation for research purposes).

Biospecimen access

Are biospecimens available in the data source (e.g., tissue samples)?

No

Access to subject details

Can individual patients/practitioners/practices included in the data source be contacted?

No

Description of data collection

Anonymous aggregation of Hospital MBDS (Minimum Basic Data Set) submitted by hospitals. The MBDS is the official mandatory database of inpatient (and major surgical day cases) activity for hospitals
Event triggering registration

Event triggering registration of a person in the data source

Other

Event triggering registration of a person in the data source, other

Each record is an episode of hospitalization

Event triggering creation of a record in the data source

hospital discharge
Data source linkage

Linkage

Is the data source described created by the linkage of other data sources (prelinked data source) and/or can the data source be linked to other data source on an ad-hoc basis?

No
Data management specifications that apply for the data source

Data source refresh

Every 6 months
Yearly

Informed consent for use of data for research

Not Required

Possibility of data validation

Can validity of the data in the data source be verified (e.g., access to original medical charts)?

No

Data source preservation

Are records preserved in the data source indefinitely?

No

Data source preservation length

15 years

Approval for publication

Is an approval needed for publishing the results of a study using the data source?

No
Common Data Model (CDM) mapping

CDM mapping

Has the data source been converted (ETL-ed) to a common data model?

No