Data Resources
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(Almost) everything you need to know about using ECHILD data
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In depth information about the data contained in ECHILD
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A course offering a practical introduction to the ECHILD Database:
Access the INSTATS on-demand ECHILD course
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A series of guides to help you extract and manage data in ECHILD, with full example scripts. The guides will take you from cohort inception, to extracting exposure, outcome and covariate data and producing an analysis-ready dataset.
Author: Matt Jay
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Find out more about each element of ECHILD from published data resource profiles:
ECHILD only-children and siblings (ECHILD-oCSib)
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care
Maternity Services Data Set
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Find detailed code lists and example scripts:
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This is an informal place to ask questions about ECHILD data and to raise issues / start discussions.
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Visualise dataset availability for ECHILD including the Mother-Baby Linkage
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Researchers looking for approximate counts of diagnoses, procedures and other inpatient activities can use the routinely published Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity statistics from NHS Digital. These open data tables provide annual, national-level summaries of hospital activity in England, including breakdowns by diagnosis, procedure, age, sex and others. While not available at the individual level, they are a useful reference for understanding overall patterns of admitted patient care.
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An interactive online tool in R, that allows researchers to explore and visualise the number of cases/records from published NHS England data tables. Useful for a first count of how frequently different codes are used.
Access here