HSRC: Useful functions for perioperative research

A dataset containing the attributes of 147 high-acuity care units in UK, Australia and New Zealand obtained from the SNAP-2: EPICCS Organisational Survey. These are units which admit high-risk patients for enhanced postoperative care but are not designated as "critical care" units.

1	Org_Survey_Data_Enhanced

A data frame with 147 rows and 14 variables:

hospitalName: Hospital names have been replaced with a anonymised ID
enhancedWardName: Integer, anonymised ID number for the high-acuity care unit
enhancedWardBeds: Total number of beds in the high-acuity care unit
enhancedNurseRatio: Ratio of beds:nurses
enhancedWardConsult: Free-text string, specialty of responsible doctor for the unit
enhancedWardTherapies: Free-text string, types of therapy delivered on the unit
continuousObs: Logical, able to deliver continuous monitoring/observations
invasiveBP: Logical, able to deliver invasive blood pressure monitoring
vasoactives: Logical, able to deliver vasoactive infusions
ventilation: Logical, able to deliver invasive mechanical ventilation
NIV: Logical, able to deliver non-invasive ventilation/CPAP
epidural: Logical, able to manage epidural catheters/epidual infusions
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)

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.