University of Sheffield: Purpose #1: PhOEBE Study The PhOEBE research programme aims to identify, refine and test (using predictive models) a set of prehospital outcome measures that can be measured using

Data-sharing agreement from NHS Digital registers of approved data releases, 2014–2019. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation: University of Sheffield
Source reference: DARS-NIC-315175-P8X6Z-v2.3
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-315175-P8X6Z-v2.3
Agreement period: not published to no end date published
For commercial purposes (as marked in the register): Not stated
Release files listed by NHS England: 25

Data approved

MRIS - Flagging Current Status Report
MRIS - Cause of Death Report
Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care
Hospital Episode Statistics Critical Care

Objective, as published

Purpose #1: PhOEBE Study The PhOEBE research programme aims to identify, refine and test (using predictive models) a set of prehospital outcome measures that can be measured using information that is routinely collected. The measures will be used to measure the impact the care ambulance services provide has on patients, to assess the impact of services changes using before and after service change data and for benchmarking and across Trust comparisons. A secondary objective is to test the feasibility of linking patient level ambulance data with subsequent health data, as this has not been done before. The PhOEBE study has previously received the pseudonymised linked data of all patients whose contact with specific ambulance services during the first half of 2013 was recorded by an electronic Patient Report Form (ePRF) or who received telephone advice from the ambulance service. This data was used to identify and refine the outcome measures. A further linkage is required involving the patients whose ambulance contact was recorded during the second half of 2013. Their pseudonymised linked data will be used to test the measures, using predictive models where appropriate. This second set of data relates to a different time period and different patients. Purpose #2: VAN Study Increasing use of the emergency ambulance service has the potential to overload ambulance services and reduce the quality of service offered to life threatening emergencies. The task for services is to try a…

Expected benefits, as published

Purpose #1: PhOEBE Study The emergency ambulance service is the first point of contact with the NHS for over 6 million patients a year who have an urgent healthcare problem. Ambulance services in England have recently changed their service to meet the needs of patients in a timely and clinically appropriate way. For example, taking some patients directly to specialist care, providing care at home, or referring to other services. In order to assess how well these and any future changes are working in terms of improving care for patients the ambulance service needs to measure the impact they are having on the patients they attend. At present this is difficult as ambulance services have no information about what happens to patients once they have left their care. Using the outcome measures d…

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