Catastrophic Health Collapse (part 7)

In this article I utilise in-hospital death data for 2017 – 2021 from a sizeable NHS Trust to reveal trends in respiratory & COVID death

Part 5 of this series sets the essential background to this analysis. Before we get stuck in again this morning I ought to mention what is meant by a ‘respiratory death’. As previously stated this not the clear cut definition our minds would like to see. For example, one or more respiratory diagnoses prior to death may be recorded on the patient adminis…