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- <a id="caboodle">**Caboodle**</a>

Database used by [EPIC](#epic) for reporting purposes. Updated every 24 hours with the data available
through live streams. More processing makes data more readable than [Clarity](#clarity), another reporting database.
through live streams. More processing makes data more readable than [Clarity](#clarity), another reporting database.
Within the UCLH intranet, you can access the [Caboodle Dictionary](https://uclvwlbpraecb01.uclh201.net/Warehouse) to explore the tables.

- <a id="ccu">**CCU**</a>

Critical Care Unit.

- <a id="chron">**Chronicles**</a>

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## F

- <a id="fk">**Flowsheets**</a>
- <a id="flowsheets">**Flowsheets**</a>

Flowsheets within hospital data refer to data taken as a measurements over a period of time.

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## G

- <a id="gae">**GAE**</a>

Generic application environment.

- <a id="get">**getter**</a>

Term used to refer to computer code used to retrieve types of data e.g. a function getName() would be used to
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## M

- <a id="mdt">**MDT**</a>

Multi-disciplinary team.

- <a id="mrn">**MRN**</a>

Medical Record Number assigned to a patient arriving in the hospital. Also referred to as [Hospital number](#hos_num). These are the canonical internal representation of identity (as opposed to [NHS Number](#nhs_num)) which is an external identifier). MRNs try to be mapped 1:1 to real people. This is practically difficult, so while a single person may have many MRNs over the course of their life, they should most of the time only have 1 active MRN within a given Trust. Much of the information relating to a patient
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[RabbitMQ](https://www.rabbitmq.com/) is a message-brokering software used in the [EMAP pipeline](#emap) to buffer communications between the different services.
(See further documentation on use of [RabbitMQ in EMAP](./technical_overview/technologies_used/RabbitMQ.md))


- <a id="rass">**RASS**</a>

[Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Agitation-Sedation_Scale).

- <a id="db">**Relational database**</a>

A relational database is a collection of data items with pre-defined relationships between them.
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## S

- <a id="sde">**SDE**</a>


Smart Data Elements, used within EPIC as a more customisable way to input form-based information.

Similar to [flowsheets](#flowsheets), but much more based on form answers rather than clinical measurements.

- <a id="set">**setter**</a>

Term used to refer to computer code used to set the value of data e.g. a function setName('my name') would be used to set the 'name' piece of data to the value 'my name'. Counterpart of [getter](#get).
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Strategic Integration Platform acts as a central controller for all electronic messages sent within the
Trust. It routes messages from various sources ([POC](#poc), [HSL](#hsl), Imaging) to be recorded in the
appropriate databases.

- <a id="star">**SPC**</a>

Statistical Process Control.


- <a id="star">**Star**</a>

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- <a id="uds">**UDS**</a>

This is the storage space for the [Star database](#star).
Uniform Data System. This is the storage space for the [Star database](#star).

## V

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