Outpatient Consultations

Asthma outcome: Healthcare Utilization in Secondary Care

Specific Asthma outcome: Outpatient Consultations

Data source: National Health Surveys

Dataset availability by country and link for access and meta-data:

• England
  • Health Survey for England (1991 and annually since started)
• Scotland
  • Scottish Health Survey (1995, 1998, 2003, 2008, and annually since 2008)

Granularity: Up to health board level

Data type: Individual level data

Keywords: Healthcare Utilisation Secondary Care

Periodicity: Annually, but asthma survey not carried out in all years

Costs: Access to the survey datasets is free

Coverage by age: Covers all age groups

Further Information: Numbers are very small for outpatient datasets, therefore they should be used with caution