DAD
Discharge Abstract Database · Acute inpatient separations
Supporting reference for Project 001
Alberta Health Data Atlas
The bilingual reference used to design Project 001’s synthetic records. It describes nine Alberta administrative datasets and clinical systems—record grain, field families, linkage, access, and interpretation—without supplying patient-level values.
Project overview
From catalogue to research question.
In Project 001, this reference decides what a synthetic row can represent and which fields belong together. It explains how each real source is generated, what one record represents, which field groups are commonly available, how datasets can be linked, and where interpretation caveats matter. Official access notes stay linked to their original sources.
9dataset and system guides
3DAD, NACRS & PIN deep dives
2languages across the site
Dataset map
The interactive atlas expands each item with field guidance, linkage notes, research examples, caveats, and official sources.
NACRS
Emergency, day surgery, urgent and selected ambulatory care
CLAIMS
Practitioner claims and physician-service utilization
PLD
Provincial laboratory tests, results, units, and source systems
PIN
Community pharmacy dispensing and medication trajectories
VITAL
Birth, stillbirth, death, and cause-of-death events
REGISTRY
Coverage eligibility, demographics, geography, and denominators
SCM
Legacy Calgary clinical events, orders, results, and documents
CONNECT CARE
Provincial clinical information generated through Epic
Educational, source-linked, and independent.
This is an independent educational resource, not an official Alberta Health Services, University of Calgary, Government of Alberta, or CIHI publication. It contains no patient-level data. Official workbooks are not copied into this repository; readers are directed to their original sources. The atlas does not replace legal, ethics, custodian, or data-access advice.