Data Summary
Individual records are submitted to PEDW on the basis of a patient's consultant episode; that is the time an admitted patient spends in the continuous care of one consultant within one NHS provider. If the patient is transferred to the care of another consultant, either in the same or another specialty or they are transferred to another NHS provider for continuing in-patient care, another consultant episode will start and result in another PEDW record.
Patients captured by the PEDW database are classified as follows:
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In-Patients - Patients that are admitted to hospital staying at least one night.
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Day Cases - Patients who are admitted electively for treatment or care that does not require an overnight stay in hospital.
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Maternity Patients - The admission of a pregnant or recently pregnant woman to a maternity ward (including delivery facilities).
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Regular Attenders - Patient admitted electively as part of a planned series of regular admissions for an on-going regime of broadly similar treatment (e.g. for chemotherapy/radiotherapy sessions).
Diagnosis and Procedural Information
Information about the diagnosis for which a patient is admitted, or any operative procedures undertaken during an episode of care, is coded by clinical coders to standard classifications. Diagnosis information is coded as using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (Version 10) known as ICD10, and operative procedures are coded using the the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures (Version 4) known as OPCS4.
Last updated:
10/01/2013
