LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE: The objective of the request is to receive information about fact of death and current postcode for members of the cohort prior to writing out therefore preventing the writing out

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-63345-L7D3D-v0.15
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-63345-L7D3D-v0.15
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: 1

Data approved

MRIS - List Cleaning Report

Objective, as published

The objective of the request is to receive information about fact of death and current postcode for members of the cohort prior to writing out therefore preventing the writing out to any people in the cohort who may have passed away and not writing to people who have moved address. The output is to create a 'live' consented database and the benefit is not to cause distress PhD Research Study on the Use of PROMs in Emergency Admissions, a feasibility study conducted to explore the use of Patient reported outcome measures in emergency admissions patient cohorts. The aim of the work is to assess the feasibility of retrospective PROMs in emergency admissions and follow-up PROMs to determine change in Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) of patients following emergency hospital care. This is the last phase of a three year study and links directly with the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA), who if the study proves to be a success, will be looking at the feasibility of including PROMs in National Clinical Audit. In England, emergency admissions accounted for nearly 38% of all hospital admissions in 2012-13, with an increase of 47% over the last 15 years. Two thirds of hospital beds are occupied by people admitted as emergencies and the cost is approximately £12.5 billion. Of these, emergency general surgery represents approximately half of the general surgical workload and accounts for over 600,000 hospital admissions at a cost of £88 million a year. Furthermore, emergenc…

Expected benefits, as published

Request of data for FACT OF DEATH requirement only. The purpose is to enable the researcher not to cause distress. So the objective is not to write to any dead people, the output is to create a 'live' consented database and the benefit is not to cause distress. Study findings will be disseminated to participating providers and National Emergency Laparotomy Audit and at conferences such as HSR symposium 2018, National PROMS conference 2018 involving provider trusts and clinicians, reports to National clinical audit collaborators .They will be able to use patient reported outcomes for service improvement decisions and on-going benchmarking of services. There is prior engagement with the National Clinical Audit groups who are interested in adopting the use of Patient Reported Outcomes to cli…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/25257/ReleaseRegister2017060120170831v02/xls/ReleaseRegister20170601_20170831_v02.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

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