MIMIC-III, a freely accessible critical care database

Abstract

MIMIC-III (‘Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care’) is a large, single-center database comprising information relating to patients admitted to critical care units at a large tertiary care hospital. Data includes vital signs, medications, laboratory measurements, observations and notes charted by care providers, fluid balance, procedure codes, diagnostic codes, imaging reports, hospital length of stay, survival data, and more. The database supports applications including academic and industrial research, quality improvement initiatives, and higher education coursework. Design Type(s) data integration objective Measurement Type(s) Demographics • clinical measurement • intervention • Billing • Medical History Dictionary • Pharmacotherapy • clinical laboratory test • medical data Technology Type(s) Electronic Medical Record • Medical Record • Electronic Billing System • Medical Coding Process Document • Free Text Format Factor Type(s) Sample Characteristic(s) Homo sapiens Design Type(s) data integration objective Measurement Type(s) Demographics • clinical measurement • intervention • Billing • Medical History Dictionary • Pharmacotherapy • clinical laboratory test • medical data Technology Type(s) Electronic Medical Record • Medical Record • Electronic Billing System • Medical Coding Process Document • Free Text Format Factor Type(s) Sample Characteristic(s) Homo sapiens Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data (ISA-Tab format)