NCT03733665

HES and NICOR Data Linkage for Cardiac Failure Population Analysis

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 80,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: King's College London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a population-based, patient-level analysis of heart failure in England over a 5-year period using a dataset created by linking HES and NICOR databases. Our analyses will look into the re-occurrence of hospitalisation after the initial diagnosis of heart failure, the influence of population factors on risk of re-hospitalisation, and the resultant cost implications in an NHS environment.

Detailed description

Data from the National Heart Failure Audit (NICOR) and Hospital Episodes Statistics (NHS Digital) will be linked, by NHS Digital, using fields that are recorded in both databases (for example, NHS number). We will receive de-anonymised data that has been pseudo-anonymised, allowing for patient-level analyses but without identifying individual patients.

Conditions

• Heart Failure
• Registries
• Patient Readmission

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Patients admitted to hospital	Data is captured in HES for all patient interactions with the NHS (each episode) in England. All patients admitted for heart failure have data captured in the National Heart Failure Audit.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-06
• Primary completion: 2020-10-31
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2018-11-07
• Last updated: 2020-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom