Validity of using Hospital Episode Statistics data on monitoring disease trends
| Autor: | Kerry Pollard, Stephen P Rushton, Matthew F. Thomas, Julia E Clark, F Hampton, MA Elemraid, Pauline Singleton, David A. Spencer, Katherine M Eastham, Andrew R. Gennery, R. Gorton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Male business.industry Bacterial pneumonia Disease medicine.disease Empyema respiratory tract diseases Hospitalization Pneumococcal Vaccines Pneumonia Childhood pneumonia Statistics Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Etiology Pneumonia Bacterial Medicine Humans Female business Empyema Pleural |
| Zdroj: | Thorax. 66(9) |
| ISSN: | 1468-3296 |
| Popis: | 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 childhood pneumonia, particularly ‘bacterial pneumonia’.2 Given the magnitude of the case numbers reported, it would appear that the analyses are based on all pneumonia … |
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