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Validity of using Hospital Episode Statistics data on monitoring disease trends [PDF]
Thorax, 2010 We read with interest the article by Koshy et al .1 The findings are important in documenting changes in admission rates of childhood pneumonia and empyema since the introduction of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7). We are concerned that undue emphasis has been placed on Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to define the aetiology of
Elemraid, Mohamed A. +10 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2023 Objective To investigate the trends in hospital admissions and medication prescriptions related to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in England and Wales.
Hassan Alwafi +10 more
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Incidence and costs of unintentional falls in older people in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2003 STUDY OBJECTIVE: To estimate the number of accident and emergency (A&E) attendances, admissions to hospital, and the associated costs as a result of unintentional falls in older people. DESIGN: Analysis of national databases for cost of illness. SETTING:
Chaplin, S., Legood, R., Scuffham, P.
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BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background The United Kingdom aortic aneurysms (AA) services have undergone reconfiguration to improve outcomes. The National Health Service collects data on all hospital admissions in England.
Ahmed Aber +6 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background There is limited understanding of the drivers of increasing infant accident and emergency (A&E) attendances and emergency hospital admissions across England.
Selina Nath +6 more
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Patient safety indicators for England from hospital administrative data: case-control analysis and comparison with US data [PDF]
, 2008 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.The Healthcare Commission ...
Bremner, SA +3 more
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Hospital episode statistics v central cardiac audit database [PDF]
BMJ, 2007 We published the follow-up of the Bristol Royal Infirmary analysis to which Westaby et al refer1 2 and have some comments on their paper. The online version suggests that the clinical teams did not verify the data. We wrote to the clinical team at Oxford over a year before our paper was published.
Paul Aylin +3 more
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Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2023 Background: This study aimed to investigate the trend of hospital admissions related to poisoning by narcotics and psychodysleptics and poisoning by antiepileptic, sedative-hypnotic, and antiparkinsonism drugs in England and Wales between April 1999 and ...
Hassan Alwafi
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Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2023 Background The natural history of skeletal complications in achondroplasia (ACH) is well-described. However, it remains unclear how the rates of non-skeletal complications, surgical procedures, healthcare needs and mortality differ between individuals ...
Jeanne M. Pimenta +5 more
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Changes in and predictors of length of stay in hospital after surgery for breast cancer between 1997/98 and 2004/05 in two regions of England: a population-based [PDF]
, 2009 BACKGROUND Decreases in length of stay (LOS) in hospital after breast cancer surgery can be partly attributed to the change to less radical surgery, but many other factors are operating at the patient, surgeon and hospital levels.
A Clarke +26 more
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