Comparison of Orthopaedic Department and hospital episode statistics data for trauma admissions
Background
Aims
Introduction
50 information about each patient included are diagnoses and surgical procedure codes, various dates, the location of treatment and details relating to the patient.
Trauma data: is the data collected daily during morning Orthopaedic trauma meetings in the Royal United Hospital.
15 fields contain information about patient name, DOB, registration number, consultant, diagnosis and treatment.
The study
Methods
Trauma data
HES entries
Results
106 patients (4.2% of total) were classified as elective or day cases rather than emergency admission.
Further analysis showed three common errors
Conclusion
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