National Diabetes Inpatient Audit: Hospital-Acquired Complications

An audit dataset from the Government Digital Service monitoring four specific hospital-acquired complications for diabetes patients. The data tracks incidents of hypoglycemia requiring rescue treatment, diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state, and new foot ulcers occurring after admission. The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Analyze rates of hospital-acquired hypoglycemia based on the rescue treatment metric.
• Model risk factors for new-onset diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) after admission.
• Benchmark hospital performance on preventing hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state (HHS).
• Study the incidence and timing of new diabetic foot ulcers developing during inpatient stays.

Strengths

• Focuses on four clearly defined and clinically significant harm metrics for diabetes inpatients.
• Data originates from a national audit program, suggesting a structured collection methodology.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count, column definitions, and sample data are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and geographic scope require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

National clinical audit program.

Time Range

unknown

Freshness

unknown

Geography

unknown