Drug Related Hospital Discharge
Number and European Age-sex Standardised Rates (EASRs) of general acute inpatient and day case stays with a drug-related diagnosis.
Data
Drug Related Hospital Discharge
Description
Note: This dataset will not be receiving updates through this portal on an indefinite basis. Please refer to the Public Health Scotland Open Data platform for the relevant data.
Number and EASR of hospital stays related to a drug misuse diagnosis. Hospital activity is data routinely drawn from hospital administrative systems across all NHS hospitals in Scotland. These data contain statistics derived from General Acute Inpatient / Day cases Records (Scottish Morbidity Records 01 or SMR01 database), which includes all inpatient and day cases discharged from acute medical specialties (all specialties other than mental health, maternity, neonatal and geriatric long stay specialties), and where drug misuse was mentioned in the records at some point during the patients' hospital stay.
For the Drug-Related Hospital Statistics publications please visit the NSS ISD website.
Metadata
| Theme | Health and Social Care |
|---|---|
| Organisation | Public Health Scotland |
| License | UK Open Government Licence (OGL) |
| Published | |
| Last updated | |
| Update frequency | annual |
| Reference period | 1996 to 2018 |
| Geographic coverage | Health Board Areas, Council Areas, Country |
| Contact | phs.drugsteam@phs.scot |
Data quality
Completeness
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Uniqueness
Not assessed
Consistency
The previous open data submission only included stays with a diagnosis of mental and behavioural disorders due to substance use. This data submission is based on the revised definition of a drug-related hospital stay that includes both mental & behavioural diagnoses and drug poisoning/overdose diagnoses. Previous open data is comparable within the drug-related hospital stay dashboard by selecting 'mental and behavioural' in the 'Clinical type' field.
Timeliness
These statistics are updated annually.
Validity
Relevant to understanding drug misuse in Scotland. Statistics will be used for policy making and service planning.
Accuracy
Quality checks are conducted by ISD. Figures are compared to previously published data and expected trends.
Quality management
Quality checks are conducted by ISD. Figures are compared to previously published data and expected trends.
Additional details
Revisions
All data are revised annually to reflect any changes to analysis and to ensure the most complete information is presented. Minor revisions of this nature are often due to incomplete data returns at the time of previous publication.
The latest available National Records of Scotland mid-year population estimates were used in EASR calculations. At the time of the analysis, the latest estimates were for the year 2017.
The previous open data submission only included stays with a diagnosis of mental and behavioural disorders due to substance use. This data submission is based on the revised definition of a drug-related hospital stay that includes both mental & behavioural diagnoses and drug poisoning/overdose diagnoses. Further information can be found in Appendix 2 of the latest Drug-Related Hospital Statistics publication
Confidentiality policy
The ISD Statistical Disclosure Protocol is followed.