NACAP: Adult Asthma Secondary Care Clinical Audit for England, Scotland, and Wales 2018/19

The 2018/19 audit presents data from the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme's continuous secondary care audit for adult asthma. It captures the process and clinical outcomes of treatment for patients admitted to hospitals in England, Scotland, and Wales. The data was collected by the Government Digital Service and covers patients admitted on or after November 1, 2018, and discharged by March 31, 2019.

Use Cases

• Analyze hospital admission and discharge processes for adult asthma patients based on the clinical audit data.
• Benchmark clinical outcomes and treatment quality across England, Scotland, and Wales based on the reported audit results.
• Study the implementation and early results of a continuous national clinical audit programme based on the 2018/19 cohort.

Strengths

• Data is from a national, multi-country clinical audit programme covering England, Scotland, and Wales.
• The audit captures both treatment processes and clinical outcomes for a defined patient cohort.
• The dataset has a clear temporal coverage from November 1, 2018, to March 31, 2019.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary data format is PDF, which may hinder direct computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Continuous clinical audit capturing treatment processes and outcomes for hospital admissions.

Time Range

November 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

England, Scotland, Wales