Org_Survey_Data_CCU: Critical Care Units identified in the SNAP-2: EPICCS...

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset containing the attributes of 460 critical care units in UK, Australia and New Zealand obtained from the SNAP-2: EPICCS Organisational Survey

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 460 rows and 9 variables:

hospitalName

Hospital names have been replaced with a anonymised ID

ccuName

Integer, anonymised ID number for the critical care unit

ccuBeds

Total number of critical care beds in the unit

ventBeds

Total number of ventilated critical care beds in the unit

ccuMix

Factor, whether the unit is an ICU, HDU or Mixed

ccuSpecialty

Factor, whether the unit is specialist unit, can be "Cardiothoracic", "General/Mixed", "Medical", "Neurology/Neurosurgical", "Surgical", "Other"

ccuAdmitOther

Logical, if the unit is specialist unit, whether it will admit off-specialty patients

country

Factor, country where the hospital is located (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia or New Zealand)

countryAgg

Factor, country where the hospital is located, aggregated country list (UK, Australia or New Zealand)

Source

The data originates from the Second Sprint National Anaesthesia Project: EPIdemiology of Critical Care provision after Surgery (SNAP-2: EPICCS) Organisational Survey. The data was used in a paper referenced: Wong DJN, Popham S, Wilson AM, Barneto LM, Lindsay HA, Farmer L, et al. Postoperative critical care and high-acuity care provision in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2019 Feb 8 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000709121930011X


dannyjnwong/HSRC documentation built on May 18, 2019, 2:37 a.m.