Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 24 Mar 2026 | Updated: 30 days ago
Summary
Description:
A highly granular dataset of 829 people with an acute myocardial syndrome while on intensive care, including serial physiology before, during and after the event, demography, co-morbidities, investigations including imaging and longterm outcomes.
Access Tier:
Controlled
Contact Point:
Health Category:
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
- Data on factors impacting on health, including socio-economic, environmental & behavioural determinants of health
Number of Unique Individuals:
829
Documentation
Associated Media:
Documentation:
Clinical studies have suggested a link between critical illness and cardiac events. Pre-clinical research has also suggested that critical illness is associated with the development of acute cardiac disease, with mechanisms including inflammation, changeable physiology and the use of medications and fluids which are associated with vascular damage. Understanding who might be at risk for poor cardiac outcomes following critical illness and how to predict cardiac events in real time might support new treatment strategies.
To explore this further, PIONEER has curated a dataset of over 800 patients who have experienced an acute myocardial event during or shortly after an admission to intensive care. This includes serial, time-stamped physiology, blood results, investigations including ECGs and imaging, other cardiac diagnostic tests, all medications before, during and after the event, and outcomes, including death, length of stay and readmission. Data also include ventilatory support, SOFA score and APACHE II scores. This can be matched with a control population.
Geography: The West Midlands (WM) has a population of 6 million & includes a diverse ethnic & socio-economic mix. UHB is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, providing direct acute services & specialist care across four hospital sites, with 2.2 million patient episodes per year, 2750 beds & > 120 ITU bed capacity. UHB runs a fully electronic healthcare record (EHR) (PICS; Birmingham Systems), a shared primary & secondary care record (Your Care Connected) & a patient portal “My Health”.
Data set availability: Data access is available via the PIONEER Hub for projects which will benefit the public or patients. This can be by developing a new understanding of disease, by providing insights into how to improve care, or by developing new models, tools, treatments, or care processes. Data access can be provided to NHS, academic, commercial, policy and third sector organisations. Applications from SMEs are welcome. There is a single data access process, with public oversight provided by our public review committee, the Data Trust Committee. Contact pioneer@uhb.nhs.uk or visit www.pioneerdatahub.co.uk for more details.
Available supplementary data: Matched controls; ambulance and community data. Unstructured data (images). We can provide the dataset in OMOP and other common data models and can build synthetic data to meet bespoke requirements.
Available supplementary support: Analytics, model build, validation & refinement; A.I. support. Data partner support for ETL (extract, transform & load) processes. Bespoke and “off the shelf” Trusted Research Environment (TRE) build and run. Consultancy with clinical, patient & end-user and purchaser access/ support. Support for regulatory requirements. Cohort discovery. Data-driven trials and “fast screen” services to assess population size.
Coverage
Spatial
Spatial Coverage:
Temporal
Start Date:
28 December 2015
End Date:
11 December 2023
Frequency:
QUARTERLY
Date of Latest Release:
26 November 2024
Date of First Release:
26 November 2024
Temporal Aggregation:
0 - 6 Months
Provenance
Origin
Purpose:
Care
Collection Situation:
- Secondary care - Accident and Emergency
- Secondary care - In-patients
Image Contrast:
Not stated
Method of Collection:
EPR
Access and Governance
Usage
Data Use Requirements:
Project specific restriction
Access
Jurisdiction:
England
Data Controller:
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Data Processor:
NOT APPLICABLE
Delivery Lead Time:
1-2 months
Legal Basis:
General research use
Health Data Access Body:
This publication uses data from PIONEER, an ethically approved database and
analytical environment (East Midlands Derby Research Ethics 20/EM/0158)
Format and Standards
Language:
English
Format:
SQL
Conforms To:
LOCAL
Coding System:
- ICD10
- SNOMED CT
- OPCS4
Data Distribution
Data Status:
Available
Distribution:
Trusted Research Environments (TRE) are built using Microsoft Azure services and
hosted in the UK to provide research teams a safe, secure and agile environment
which allows users to quickly analyse, interpret and form an enriched view of
primary care information through a range of integrated datasets. Health data
collated from multiple sources is ingested into a secure data lake which will
then allow subsets of data to be made available to research teams on approval of
a data request. Once approved a customer specific TRE is made available with a
standard set of leading analytical tools from Microsoft including Azure
Databricks, Azure Machine Learning, Azure SQL and Azure Synapse (for large-scale
data warehouses). Specific tools can be provided at an additional cost over the
standard platform data access charge and the PIONEER team will work with you to
determine your exact needs. Access to the TRE is managed using the latest
virtual desktop technology to provide a safe and secure end-user experience. By
utilising leading edge design PIONEER are able to create TREs rapidly to enable
us to service any customer requirement.,
www.pioneerdatahub.co.uk/data/data-services-costs/
Observations
Name
Population Type
Value
Description
Variable Measured
Unit Code
Observation Date
Number of Records
Minimum Typical Age
Maximum Typical Age
Persons
829
829 patients with admitted to ICU with sepsis, polytrauma/burns and ARDS
Count
05 October 2023
829
18
150
Origin
Name:
Data Catalogue