Catastrophic Health Collapse (part 6)
In this article I utilise A&E admissions for 2017 – 2021 from a sizeable NHS Trust to reveal trends in respiratory illness with comparison of rates for weighted and unweighted data
In part 5 of this series I plotted out the incidence of respiratory diagnosis and the incidence of respiratory procedure in terms of percentage of total intake for the emergency departments of a sizeable NHS Trust for the period 2017 – 2022. I then derived a ratio for these that I termed the Respiratory Severity Index (RSI). We noted a rather lean year …