PICANet: Paediatric Intensive Care Admissions in the UK and Ireland, 2015-2017

2015-2017 data on all admissions to Paediatric Intensive Care units in the UK and Ireland. The dataset is an annual audit report from the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit network. It was published by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership and is available in XLS, XLSX, and PDF formats.

Use Cases

• Analyze admission trends and patient demographics based on the audit's national coverage.
• Benchmark paediatric intensive care unit performance across the UK and Ireland.
• Study temporal patterns in paediatric critical care over a three-year period.

Strengths

• Covers all admissions to paediatric intensive care units in the UK and Ireland.
• Provides three consecutive years of annual audit data (2015-2017).
• Published by the authoritative Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership.

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 2026-06-17.

Provenance

Source

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

Collection Method

Audit of all paediatric intensive care unit admissions.

Time Range

2015-2017

Geography

United Kingdom and Ireland