Clinical Research Awareness & Data Learning Environment (CRADLE)
Researchers can explore a representative sample of the healthcare data to understand and assess its value and relevance for subsequent researches.
Target Users:
- Researchers seeking to explore healthcare datasets and familiarise themselves with the data schema
Data Provision:
- The anonymised sample data contains structured data from around 200,000 patients randomly selected from the patient populations of 2007 and 2017, stratified by age and gender
- The sample data includes patients’ demographic characteristics, attendance records to hospitals or clinics, clinical diagnosis, procedures, medication and laboratory results and radiology examination results
- Classification of chronic diseases and cancers is available
Application:
- Application for CRADLE is open to researchers from the institutions with established agreement on Data Collaboration Lab usage with EHP
- Researchers should fill in the application form and sign the confidentiality undertaking for CRADLE access and send the documents to the focal point of the institutions
- Successful applicants will receive a confirmation email from DCL Office regarding the access arrangement
Data Output:
- CRADLE is for data familiarisation and output is not allowed
Enquiry:
- Please contact DCL Office at ehpdcl@ha.org.hk for any enquiries