The MIMIC-III Clinical Database

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The current version of the MIMIC-III Clinical Database is v1.4 (4 September, 2016).

This database is described in

Johnson AEW, Pollard TJ, Shen L, Lehman L, Feng M, Ghassemi M, Moody B, Szolovits P, Celi LA, Mark RG. MIMIC-III, a freely accessible critical care database. Scientific Data (2016).

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Goldberger AL, Amaral LAN, Glass L, Hausdorff JM, Ivanov PCh, Mark RG, Mietus JE, Moody GB, Peng C-K, Stanley HE. PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet: Components of a New Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals. Circulation 101(23):e215-e220 [Circulation Electronic Pages; http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/101/23/e215.full]; 2000 (June 13).

MIMIC-III is a large, publicly-available database comprising de-identified health-related data associated with approximately sixty thousand admissions of patients who stayed in critical care units of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center between 2001 and 2012. The database includes information such as demographics, vital sign measurements made at the bedside (~1 data point per hour), laboratory test results, procedures, medications, nurse and physician notes, imaging reports, and out-of-hospital mortality. MIMIC supports a diverse range of analytic studies spanning epidemiology, clinical decision-rule improvement, and electronic tool development. It is notable for three factors:

MIMIC-III is an update to MIMIC-II v2.6 and contains the following new classes of data:

The MIMIC-III Clinical Database, although de-identified, still contains detailed information regarding the clinical care of patients, and must be treated with appropriate care and respect. Researchers seeking to use the full Clinical Database must formally request access to the MIMIC-III Database.

For more information about the MIMIC-III Clinical Database, please visit http://mimic.physionet.org/.

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