Weekly Admissions by SIMD for COVID-19, ...

Weekly number of patients admitted as an emergency to a hospital in Scotland identified from Rapid Preliminary Inpatient Data (RAPID), with laboratory-confirmed respiratory infections broken down by SIMD quintile (season 2020/21 onwards), for 3 respiratory conditions (COVID-19, Influenza and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus)).

The case definition includes patients admitted as an emergency to a medical specialty in acute hospitals (excluding surgical, maternity/obstetrics and mental health specialties, and emergency admissions with patient injury codes) who have a PCR test result, taken within a period of between 14 days before the admission date and 48 hours after the admission date. COVID-19 test results can include LFD results (from 05 Jan 2022).

RAPID figures are subject to change and particularly for the most recent week may be incomplete for some Boards.

Deprivation quintiles are based on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (2020). Note quintile 1 = most deprived and 5 = least deprived. https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/scottish-index-of-multiple-deprivation

More detailed metadata is available from the Metadata tab of the PHS Viral Respiratory Diseases Surveillance dashboard.