HES-DID Data Linkage Report - Provisional Summary Statistics, April 2014 to March 2015 (Experimental Statistics)
A brief summary of the number of records in the HES (Hospital Episode Statistics) data set and DID (Diagnostic Imaging Dataset) that can be linked.
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This is the latest statistical publication of linked HES (Hospital Episode Statistics) and DID (Diagnostic Imaging Data set) data held by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
The HES-DID linkage provides the ability to undertake national (within England) analysis along acute patient pathways to understand typical imaging requirements for given procedures, and/or the outcomes after particular imaging has been undertaken, thereby enabling a much deeper understanding of outcomes of imaging and to allow assessment of variation in practice.
This publication aims to highlight to users the availability of this updated linkage and provide users of the data with some standard information to assess their analysis approach against.