NELA Year 3: UK Hospital-Level Emergency Laparotomy Audit Data

Hospital-level audit data from the UK's National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) for its third year. Data was collected from December 2015 to November 2016 by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership. The dataset includes performance indicators for hospitals performing emergency laparotomy procedures.

Use Cases

• Benchmark hospital performance based on reported audit indicators.
• Analyze trends in emergency laparotomy care quality across UK hospitals.
• Identify hospitals with low case volumes for targeted support initiatives.

Strengths

• Data covers a defined one-year timeframe from December 2015 to November 2016.
• Includes clear data quality flags, with grey rows indicating hospitals submitting fewer than ten cases.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, facilitating open use and redistribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2015-2016 collection period.

Provenance

Source

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

Collection Method

Audit data collection from participating UK hospitals.

Time Range

December 2015 to November 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 07:54:26.464080; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom