Emergency Department Admissions: Analysis of CDS Dataset (part 8)

I analyse an anonymised data dump of 1.9 million admissions records to the emergency departments of an undisclosed NHS Trust for the period June 2017 – September 2021

In part 7 of this series I got side-tracked by something I called peak ambulance, this being a most peculiar and well-defined peak for arrival by ambulance for 2020/w14 (week ending 3 April). As we noted back in part 4 private and public forms of transport were typically how the majority of people got to the emergency departments of this NHS Trust during the study period but this was decidedly not the case during 2020/w14. What I’d like to do today is get back to looking at trends over time, so let’s get stuck straight in with three slides revealing the percentage of discharges, referrals and admissions for 2017/w1 – 2021/w37 (please see part 4 for definitions of disposal route):

Discharged Home/Elsewhere

We are looking at green for go (home) and this is fascinating! If we assume people are behaving as the always do, and accidents and disease are happening as they always do (with the exception of seasonal effects and bad weather), then we are left scratching our heads as to why discharg…