Metadata Catalog of the Sepsis Canada Network
The Sepsis Canada Network is a nationally coordinated research network funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research. Its three pillars aim to facilitate and conduct research to further understand the causes and improve the prevention, detection and management of sepsis. The three pillars are: (1) Population Health, Economics and Policy, (2) Advocacy, Health Literacy and Knowledge Transfer, and (3) Translational Biology and Clinical Trials.
Numerous and diverse existing datasets can be used to study the epidemiology of sepsis, including administrative, clinical, laboratory, medication administration, population-based survey, and other data. Maximally leveraging existing data to study sepsis requires obtaining access to, and analyzing linked data. However, these datasets are distributed across Canada, some are not well known or understood by sepsis investigators, and it can be challenging to identify relevant datasets, obtain access, link and harmonize the data.
As foundational infrastructure for advancing knowledge about the epidemiology of sepsis, this metadata catalog has been created of existing relevant Canadian datasets, delineating: data owner and custodian, years included, data sources, fields included, the precise definition and format of each data field, and other information. Such metadata, or ‘data about data’, are necessary for anyone seeking to use a dataset to perform an epidemiologic evaluation.
This metadata catalog includes not only medical databases that can be used to identify clinical sepsis events, but also non-medical datasets containing diverse information about Canadians. Linking medical and nonmedical data enables exploration of a wide range of epidemiologic questions regarding sepsis.
Overview
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Harmonization Initiatives
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Individual Studies
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Participating Networks
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Areas of Information Collected
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics 78
- Death 19
- Lifestyle and behaviours 29
- Physical measures and assessments 26
- Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history 13
- Laboratory measures 26
- Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations 29
- Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments 25
- Diseases 54
- Life events, life plans, beliefs and values 21
- Symptoms and signs 19
- Preschool, school and work life 19
- Medication and supplements 37
- Social environment and relationships 26
- Non-pharmacological interventions 39
- Physical environment 24
- Health and community care services utilization 52
- Administrative information 78
Variables Content Summary
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Last Update: 2025-07-02T16:18:15.023