NELA Year 5: UK Hospital Performance Metrics for Emergency Laparotomy

UK hospital-level audit data collected by the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit from December 2017 to November 2018. The dataset, managed by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership, tracks performance indicators for emergency abdominal surgery. It includes metrics on consultant review rates and surgical timing appropriateness.

Use Cases

• Benchmark hospital performance based on reported audit indicators like consultant review rates.
• Analyze trends in surgical care timeliness using the documented interval from decision to operate to arrival in theatre.
• Identify variations in data submission completeness across hospitals based on the notes about grey rows and N/A cells.

Strengths

• Clear one-year timeframe from December 2017 to November 2018.
• Detailed explanatory notes on variable changes and data collection standards.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license for open use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Some hospitals submitted fewer than ten cases, indicated by grey rows, which may affect statistical reliability for those entries.

Provenance

Source

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

Collection Method

Clinical audit data collection from participating UK hospitals.

Time Range

December 2017 to November 2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 07:51:25.792759; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom