NELA Year 6: Hospital-Level Emergency Laparotomy Audit Data for 2018-2019

December 2018 to November 2019 data from the sixth year of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA). The dataset contains hospital-level performance indicators for emergency abdominal surgery in the UK, managed by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership. It includes metrics on predicted mortality risk and notes hospitals submitting fewer than ten cases.

Use Cases

• Benchmark hospital performance based on reported clinical indicators.
• Analyze trends in predicted mortality risk for emergency abdominal surgery.
• Identify hospitals with low case volumes for targeted support.
• Study the availability and completeness of clinical audit data across institutions.

Strengths

• Data covers a full year from December 2018 to November 2019.
• Includes a specific risk model for predicted mortality.
• Explicitly flags hospitals with low case volumes (<10).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data freshness should be verified as the last metadata update was 2026-06-22.

Provenance

Source

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

Collection Method

Clinical audit data collection from UK hospitals.

Time Range

December 2018 to November 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-22 07:50:15.279935; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom