Primary Clinical Outcomes For A Single Emergency Department 2017 - 2021 (part 1)

Further analysis of an anonymised data dump of 1.9 million admissions records to the emergency departments of an undisclosed NHS Trust for the period Jan 2017 – Sep 2021

Now that we’ve got a better handle on the emergency department (ED) case profile over time my bubbling brain is wondering if there’s something extra tasty we could squeeze out of the data at this point. Assessing clinical outcomes for a busy cardiac surgery unit and cardiology department was once my bread and butter so I trend to think along these lines when it comes to COVID and the vaccines. In the CDS 010 dataset I’m sitting on there are essentially two primary outcomes of note, these being the decision to treat within the ED and the disposal route, which basically boils down to discharge home or admission to hospital.

Some folk might prefer I look at deaths within the department as a clinical outcome but since these amounted to just 1,830 cases out of 1,928,918 admissions (0.09%) for the entire period January 2017 – September 2021 then I’m not going to be able to do very much fancy fiddling on the statistical front, so shall put this idea on the top shelf in the pantry for the tim…