beta.raw.core schema🔗

Available on backends: TPP, EMIS

This schema defines the core tables and columns which should be available in any backend providing primary care data, allowing dataset definitions written using this schema to run across multiple backends.

The data provided by this schema are minimally transformed. They are very close to the data provided by the underlying database tables. They are provided for data development and data curation purposes.

To use this schema in an ehrQL file:

from ehrql.tables.beta.raw.core import (
    ons_deaths,
)

many rows per patient

ons_deaths🔗

Registered deaths

Date and cause of death based on information recorded when deaths are certified and registered in England and Wales from February 2019 onwards. The data provider is the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This table is updated approximately weekly in OpenSAFELY.

This table includes the underlying cause of death and up to 15 medical conditions mentioned on the death certificate. These codes (cause_of_death_01 to cause_of_death_15) are not ordered meaningfully.

More information about this table can be found in following documents provided by the ONS:

In the associated database table ONS_Deaths, a small number of patients have multiple registered deaths. This table contains all registered deaths. The ehrql.tables.beta.ons_deaths table contains the earliest registered death.

Tip

To return one row per patient from ehrql.tables.beta.raw.ons_deaths, for example the latest registered death, you can use:

ons_deaths.sort_by(ons_deaths.date).last_for_patient()

Columns

date 🔗 date: Patient's date of death.
place 🔗 string: Patient's place of death.

Possible values: Care Home, Elsewhere, Home, Hospice, Hospital, Other communal establishment
underlying_cause_of_death 🔗 ICD-10 code
cause_of_death_01 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_02 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_03 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_04 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_05 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_06 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_07 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_08 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_09 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_10 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_11 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_12 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_13 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_14 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.
cause_of_death_15 🔗 ICD-10 code: Medical condition mentioned on the death certificate.