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HIC hosts a range of linkable routinely-collected, person-based administrative datasets combining datasets for the Tayside and Fife population and Tayside, with local speciality research, and clinical datasets.‌‌

Clinical datasets

Clinical datasets Description Time period
Accident and Emergency (A&E) Tayside Accident and Emergency 2006 >
  Fife Accident and Emergency 2004 > 
Adverse Incident Management (AIM) database Tayside Query access to system, not holding a copy of database  
Ambulatory Holter Monitoring Tayside Cardiovascular patients - 24 hour heart activity monitor data 2003 > 2011
Child Health Surveillance Program (CHSP) (Pre-School) Tayside pre-school surveillance examination results 1996 > 2007
Child Health Surveillance (CHSP) (School) Tayside primary/secondary school surveillance examination results 2003 > 2007
ECHO cardiogram dataset Tayside Echocardiographic 1994 >
Epidemiology of Liver Disease in Tayside (ELDIT) Collated research database of approx 10,000 cases of liver disease 1991 > 2003
Foot Clinic   2003 >
Heart-disease Evidence-based Audit & Research Tayside Scotland (HEARTS) Tayside coronary heart disease patients 1998 > 2006
Walker Over 48,000 Dundee birth records 1952 > 1966
CLEFTSIS Tayside Orofacial Clefts Dental 1990 > 2011
Childsmile Scottish Childsmile program  - Dental Interventions 2007 >
Heart Failure Nurses Tayside Heart Failure patient 2009 > 2013
ISD SMR00 Tayside & Fife Hospital Outpatient 1997 >
ISD SMR01 Tayside Acute Stay Hospital Admissions 2000 >
  Fife Acute Stay Hospital Admissions 1981 >
TOPAS SMR01 Tayside Acute Stay Hospital Admissions  1996 > 2011
ISD SMR02 Tayside Maternity 1975 >
  Fife Maternity 1997 >
Evolution SMR02 Tayside Local Maternity System 2004 > 2012
ISD SMR04 Tayside Psychiatric Returns 1981 >
  Fife Psychiatric Returns 1997 >
ISD SMR06 Tayside Cancer Registration 1980 >
  Fife Cancer Registration 1997 >
ISD SMR11 Tayside Neonatal (includes some home births) 1980 > 2002
  Fife Neonatal 1997 >
ISD SMR25 Tayside Substance Misuse - awaiting delivery from ISD  
  Fife Substance Misuse 2008 > 2014
Community-dispensed prescription Tayside 1993 >
  Fife  
Prospective Breast Cancer Clinic Tayside 1999 > 2012
Renal Register Tayside Dialysis and Transplant Patients  2002 >
Rheumatology Rheumatoid Arthritis clinical system used in support of care for patients attending clinics in Tayside.   2003 > 2009
  Fife Rheumatoid Arthritis data covers a smaller time period and is available on a project specific basis.  
Scottish Care Information - Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-Diabetes) Tayside and Fife Diabetic Patients 1996 >
Standard Immunisation Recall System (SIRS) Tayside Pre-school Immunisations 1987 > 2010
Stroke Stroke clinical system used in support of care of patients attending stroke clinics in Tayside 1996 > 2014
Tayside Allergy & Respiratory Disease Information System  (TARDIS) Tayside COPD & Lung Cancer Patients 2001 > 2013
Thyroid Epidemiology, Audit & Research Study (TEARS) Tayside Thyroid Patients 1969 > 2010
 Vascular Laboratory Vascular CARSCAN and SEGPRES 2000 >
  Vascular Duplex Doppler 2008 >
Contraception From Tayside Family Planning Clinics Using Legacy, ToPAS, NaSH  

 

Laboratory datasets

Laboratory datasets Description Time period
Biochemistry Tayside Biochemistry 1992 >
  Fife Biochemistry 2008 >
Haematology Tayside Haematology 1992 >
  Fife Haematology 2012 >
Immunology Tayside Immunology 1993 >
  Fife Immunology 2012 >
MicroBiology Tayside MicroBiology 1998 >
Virology Tayside Virology 1995 > 2013
Pathology Tayside Pathology 1992>

 

Non clinical datasets

Non clinical datasets Description Time period
National CHI CHI data for Scotland 2009 >
Area CHI for Tayside CHI data for Tayside 1994 > 2008
Area CHI for Fife CHI data for Fife 1989 >
1991 Census data 1991 Census 1991
2001 Census data 2001 Census 2001
GRO Death Certification Official Death Certification for Tayside 1989 >
  Official death certification data for Glasgow & Fife 2006 >
  Official death certification data for all of Scotland 2012 >
Head and Neck Cancer Data from the Ninewells and local Fife Head and Neck Cancer Clinic  
UCAT University Clinical Aptitude Test Research  linked to UCAS & Medical School Data 2006 >
Computerised Radiology Information System (CRIS) Tayside & Fife Radiology (e.g. X-ray, CT Scans) 1993 >
SMERC NHS Education for Scotland (NES) training 2009 >
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) Fife  

 

Research project datasets

Research project datasets Description Time period
Scottish Dementia Clinical Research Network (SDCRN) Register of Dementia patients and  their carers 2008 >
Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium Study (GoDARTS) HIC-managed cohort for a resource for the genetic epidemiology of Type 2 diabetes. Data collected on approx. 18,000 cases/controls 2004  > 2009
GoTARDIS Tayside Genetic Markers of Sputum MMP Activity in COPD and Asthma 2001 > 2013
CPIPS Scotland-wide clinical collection relating to children with cerebral palsy with musculoskeletal problems 2013 >
Epilepsy Register NHS Tayside clinical record of epilepsy patient treatment 2014 >
Type 1 Diabetes Bioresource Research tissue bank of blood cells and urine samples linked to clinical data for the study of type 1 diabetes 2010 >
Biomarkers Of Liver Disease (BOLD) National Liver Disease 2013 >
Weight Management Clinics Clinical record of Adult and Child weight management clinics in Tayside 2014 >
EMBARC Pan-European Multicentre Bronchiectasis database incorporating baseline data collection with annual follow-up data 2014 >
Scottish Family Health Study Scotland-wide multi-generational resource of data and biological material collected from over 30,000 participants 2009 >
SUMIT Linked activity & outcomes data from the care, treatment and rehabilitation pathway for substance misuse in Tayside 2011 >
SHARE Scottish Population Health Research Register of all Scottish residents who consent to being considered for participation in a range of studies 2013 >
Botulinum Toxin in Neurological Disorders Extended Recording System (BINDERS) Clinical data from Dystonia and Spasticity clinics relating to the administration of Botulinum neurotoxin 2014 >
TASCFORCE 5000 MRAs normal volunteers, Tayside. Study to prevent heart disease and stroke 2008 >
SHARP Scottish Heart and Arterial Risk Prevention Data - 21k patients 1991 > 1996
Scottish Healthy Heart Study 20,000 subjects recruited  
POPADAD 1200 patients with Diabetes and no clinical CVD: Scotland  
TRACE RA 3200 Rheumatoid Arthritis samples: UK  
Contact

Christopher Hall

+44 (0)1382 383718

c.hall@dundee.ac.uk