Linked Maternity Dataset
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
293301
Contact name
Abi Merriel
Contact email
Research summary
North Bristol NHS Trust and Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Linked Maternity Dataset
REC name
South West - Central Bristol Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/SW/0005
Date of REC Opinion
18 Feb 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
The Linked Maternity Dataset will bring together the existing electronic data held about pregnancies in the Trust. This will include information about medical history, previous pregnancies and all the data about the current pregnancy. This will include pregnancy ultrasound scans, routine blood tests/scans/appointments/attendances and information about birth and baby's ongoing care. No new information will be collected to make this database, we are brining existing information together into one place.
Once this data has had the personal details (name, date of birth, address) removed, it will be shared with University researchers on a project-by-project basis. The minimum data required to answer the research question will be requested.
Research programme
In the UK context it is vital to improve outcomes as we have some of the highest rates of stillbirth and neonatal death in Europe. This dataset provides the potential for using real world data, which is readily available to clinicians, to develop ways of supporting them in working with women to make plans for their pregnancy. Current strategies rely on data collected at the first antenatal appointment (e.g. BMI, past clinical and obstetric history), or on data collected at specific time points e.g. for risk of pre-eclampsia. With this information clinical plans are made. Further altering of the clinical pathways happens following abnormal clinical findings. With this dataset there is the potential to look at the routinely collected clinical data as it evolves throughout a pregnancy to answer important clinical questions such as: - Can adverse perinatal outcomes be predicted? - Is there an optimum time for birth to prevent poor perinatal outcomes? - Is there an optimal time for a scan to predict placental health?
Research database title
North Bristol NHS Trust and Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Linked Maternity Dataset
Establishment organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust
Establishment organisation address
Southmead Hosptial
Westbury on Trym
BS10 5NB