Lewer D, Bourne T, George A, Abi-Aad G, Taylor C, George J
Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK.
Public Health Department, Kent County Council, Sessions House, County Road, Maidstone ME14 1QX.
Int J Popul Data Sci. 2018 Apr 25;3(1):427. doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v3i1.427.
Electronic healthcare records from the UK are accessible to researchers via several platforms, but these platforms typically include data from a limited subset of health and care services. The Kent Integrated Dataset (KID) provides insight into system-wide health and care utilisation for the whole population of Kent and Medway.
The KID uses pseudonymisation-at-source to link patient-level records from services including general practices, hospitals, community health services and social care. Data is refreshed monthly and processes to monitor data quality have been developed.
For each episode of care, the KID includes date of the episode, the type of service accessed, the cost of the episode and clinical information such as the health condition being treated and results of diagnostic tests. The dataset also includes contextual information such as the neighbourhood deprivation.
The KID is a unique and rich dataset available to researchers who are investigating a broad range of public health questions. It provides system-level insight into patient journeys and care utilisation and supports commissioning based on patient needs.
英国的电子健康记录可通过多个平台供研究人员使用，但这些平台通常仅包含来自有限的一部分健康和护理服务的数据。肯特综合数据集（KID）能让人们深入了解肯特和梅德韦地区全体人口的全系统健康和护理利用情况。
KID在源头进行匿名化处理，以链接来自包括全科医疗、医院、社区卫生服务和社会护理等服务机构的患者级记录。数据每月更新一次，并且已经制定了监测数据质量的流程。
对于每一次护理事件，KID包括事件日期、所使用服务的类型、事件成本以及临床信息，如所治疗的健康状况和诊断测试结果。该数据集还包括诸如邻里贫困等背景信息。
KID是一个独特且丰富的数据集，可供研究人员用于调查广泛的公共卫生问题。它能提供系统层面的患者就医过程和护理利用情况洞察，并支持基于患者需求的医疗服务规划。
