National Audit of Pulmonary Hypertension: Quality of Care and Survival Data, 2017-18

2017-18 data from the 9th National Audit of Pulmonary Hypertension (NAPH) measures the quality of care provided to patients referred to pulmonary hypertension services in Great Britain. The dataset includes information on national standards, survival analysis, and reference tables at both center and national levels. It was published by the Government Digital Service on 25 October 2018.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital performance against national standards for pulmonary hypertension care.
• Conducting survival analysis for pulmonary hypertension patients across Great Britain.
• Analyzing reference data on patient characteristics and drug therapies mentioned in the audit.
• Comparing audit results across different years to track trends in care quality.

Strengths

• Data is structured for comparison at both individual hospital and national levels.
• Covers a specific audit period from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018, with some data available from previous years back to 2009-10.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

National clinical audit within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme.

Time Range

Primary data covers 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018, with some historical data available.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Great Britain