Estimating the scale of hospital admissions for people experiencing homelessness in England: a population-based multiple systems estimation study using national Hospital Episode Statistics [PDF]
Background People experiencing homelessness have substantial health needs and poor access to primary healthcare, resulting in high rates of hospital care.
Dankmar Böhning +5 more
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Total elbow replacement in England: a protocol for analysis of National Joint Registry and Hospital Episode Statistics data [PDF]
Introduction Primary total elbow replacement (TER) services in England are being restructured with the goal of centralising care to specialised centres. It is important to monitor the impact of this service redesign.
Zaid Hamoodi +6 more
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Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) [PDF]
Background This descriptive study assessed the completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom (UK) Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) primary care databases alone and, for those patients registered ...
Suhail I. Shiekh +6 more
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Investigating the Secondary Care System Burden of Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia (GSDIa) Using the Hospital Episode Statistics Database [PDF]
# Background Glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSDIa) is a rare, inherited metabolic disorder characterized by a deficiency in glucose 6-phosphatase.
Eliza Kruger, Shreena Giblin
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Mental Health Admissions to Paediatric Wards Study (MAPS): a protocol for the analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data [PDF]
Introduction Children and young people (CYP) presenting with a mental health (MH) crisis are frequently admitted to general acute paediatric wards as a place of safety.
Helen Roberts +12 more
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Hospital episode statistics: time for radical change [PDF]
The paper by Dr Andrew Spencer in this issue of Clinical Medicine (pp xxx–xxx) describes the latest in a long list of initiatives which have attempted to improve the quality of hospital episode statistics (HES)[1][1] and make them more suitable for the widening clinical and professional ...
J G, Williams, I, Carpenter
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Data consistency in the English Hospital Episodes Statistics database
Background To gain maximum insight from large administrative healthcare datasets it is important to understand their data quality. Although a gold standard against which to assess criterion validity rarely exists for such datasets, internal consistency can be evaluated.
Flavien Hardy +10 more
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Hospital episode statistics: time for clinicians to get involved? [PDF]
Hospital episode statistics contain clinical data. They are used for many purposes, including monitoring activity in the NHS and the allocation of funds. More recently they have been applied to monitoring performance, and it is intended that they will inform consultant appraisal and revalidation.
Alex Bottle +4 more
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Hospital Episode Statistics and changing trends in glaucoma surgery [PDF]
A number of authors have documented the decrease in the rate of glaucoma drainage surgery, felt to be owing to increased medical therapy options. There has also been an increase in cataract extraction. The aim of this study was, using the NHS Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), to attempt to confirm these trends and to examine the possibility that these
S G, Fraser, R P L, Wormald
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Validation of the Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatient Dataset in England [PDF]
The Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) dataset is a source of administrative 'big data' with potential for costing purposes in economic evaluations alongside clinical trials. This study assesses the validity of coverage in the HES outpatient dataset.Men who died of, or with, prostate cancer were selected from a prostate-cancer screening trial (CAP ...
Thorn, Joanna C. +9 more
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