London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: To support a research study that aims to determine the association between different services aimed at identification and management of patients at risk of deterioration and ward-b

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

Organisation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Source reference: DARS-NIC-382718-N1T4C-v1.2
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-382718-N1T4C-v1.2
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: 21

Data approved

Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care
Office for National Statistics Mortality Data
Office for National Statistics Mortality Data (linkable to HES)

Objective, as published

To support a research study that aims to determine the association between different services aimed at identification and management of patients at risk of deterioration and ward-based cardiac arrest rates and outcomes. The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will carry out a survey to map interventions across all hospitals participating in the National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA) (managed by the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC)) and using a cross-sectional approach, will determine which combinations of services are associated with the lowest cardiac arrest rates and best outcomes derived from the NCAA database. The LSHTM will also look at how arrest rates and outcomes have changed over time in hospitals as new services have been. NCAA data will be linked to other ICNARC datasets: the Case Mix Programme (CMP) to determine patient's condition on admission to ICU. Linking this ICNARC dataset to Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) will provide data on co-morbidity and hospital treatments enabling case mix adjustment at Trust level and assessment of dates when interventions were received by patients (the pattern of interventions before cardiac arrest will support the cross sectional and time series analyses). Linkage to ONS death data will provide 30 day and 90 day mortality for those patients in the NCAA who were discharged from hospital alive. HES and ONS data will be requested for all patients who have been admitted to hospitals taking…

Expected benefits, as published

By July 2017, the LSHTM aims to have identified key intervention features that improve outcomes, and will be able to disseminate the findings and recommendations across the NHS to enable hospital managers, clinicians and policy makers to raise standards of care for all patients at risk of deterioration and reduce avoidable mortality. As well as the review of the evidence associated with different interventions, the LSHTM will also be able to provide a map of the range of interventions targeting acutely ill patients in place across the NHS which will support health service managers in determining the design of their own service improvements. In addition, this study will provide preliminary information on the feasibility of using in hospital cardiac arrest rates as a routine measure of qual…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/23861/Release-Register-December-16---February-17/xls/Release_Register__December_16_-_February_17.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

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