Overview

Administrative data can be linked to clinical data to provide better context and improve the quality of this information. For example:

• An allergy recorded against a patient’s record can be linked to the clinician who identified this, together with their grade and specialty.
• An encounter record for an admission or outpatient consultation will refer to the organisation in which it took place, together with details of the location, and the clinician(s) who attended the patient.
• A request for diagnostics will refer to the requesting clinician, together with details of where the location it has been requested and where result should be returned to.
• A patient demographic record may refer to the GP practice to which they are registered.