Why get patient counts? Examples:
- Obtain counts for a specific cohort of patients, for a grant, sample size calculation, study feasibility, hypothesis generation
- Determine how many patient have been discharged from the hospital by year with COPD as one of the discharge diagnoses
No data set is delivered for counts.
Your options:
- First time User? Request Data Access for Research
- De-identified Data Applications
- These include both point-and-click (RDB) and programmable options (De-identified Clinical Data Warehouse (CDW), flat files).
- Information Commons
- Clinical data at scale and on high performance compute environment (HPC)
- An environment suited to pattern recognition and machine learning (Apache Spark)
- Currently provides de-identified structured data (RDB). De-identified images and de-identified clinical notes coming soon
- Data Extraction Consultation
- Get guidance from a UCSF expert who will help you define the data you need and clarify the data that is available.
- After the initial free hour, recharge fees will apply.
- UC Health data may be requested, but processing time can be lengthy.
- Sample Size Calculators
- Determine how many subjects to include in your study
- Power calculations, and more
Compliance Requirements
IRB approval and RAE not required