Henderson D, Burton J K, Lynch E, Clark D, Rintoul J, Bailey N
Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RZ.
Academic Geriatric Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TA.
Int J Popul Data Sci. 2019 Sep 2;4(1):1108. doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v4i1.1108.
Linked health care datasets have been used effectively in Scotland for some time. Use of social care data has been much more limited, partly because responsibility for these services is distributed across multiple local authorities. However, there are substantial interactions between health and social care (also known internationally as long-term care) services, and keen policy interest in better understanding these. We introduce two social care resources that can now be linked to health datasets at a population level across Scotland to study these interdependencies. These data emerge from the Scottish Government's centralised collation of data from mandatory returns provided by local authorities and care homes.
Deterministic and Probabilistic methods were used to match the Social Care Survey (SCS) and Scottish Care Home Census (SCHC) to the Community Health Index (CHI) number via the National Records of Scotland (NRS) Research Indexing Spine.
For the years 2010/11 to 2015/16, an overall match rate of 91.2% was achieved for the SCS to CHI from 31 of Scotland's 32 local authority areas. This rate varied from 76.7% to 98.5% for local authority areas. A match rate of 89.8% to CHI was achieved for the SCHC in years 2012/13 to 2015/16 but only 52.5% for the years 2010/11 to 2011/12.
Indexing of the SCS and SCHC to CHI offers a new and rich resource of data for health and social care research.
关联的医疗保健数据集在苏格兰已有效使用了一段时间。社会护理数据的使用则更为有限，部分原因是这些服务的责任由多个地方当局分担。然而，医疗和社会护理（在国际上也称为长期护理）服务之间存在大量相互作用，政策方面也非常希望更好地了解这些情况。我们介绍了两种社会护理资源，现在可以在苏格兰全国人口层面将它们与医疗数据集相链接，以研究这些相互依存关系。这些数据源自苏格兰政府对地方当局和养老院提供的强制申报数据进行的集中整理。
使用确定性和概率性方法，通过苏格兰国家记录（NRS）研究索引主干，将社会护理调查（SCS）和苏格兰养老院普查（SCHC）与社区健康指数（CHI）编号进行匹配。
在2010/11年至2015/16年期间，苏格兰32个地方当局区域中的31个区域的SCS与CHI的总体匹配率达到91.2%。各地方当局区域的这一比率在76.7%至98.5%之间。在2012/13年至2015/16年期间，SCHC与CHI的匹配率为89.8%，但在2010/11年至2011/12年期间仅为52.5%。
将SCS和SCHC索引到CHI为医疗和社会护理研究提供了一种新的丰富数据资源。
