Hospital episode statistics: improving the quality and value of hospital data: a national internet e-survey of hospital consultants.

ABSTRACT:

Hypothesis

Senior hospital clinicians are poorly engaged with clinical coding and hospital episode statistics (HES).

Aims

 ▸ To understand the current level of clinical engagement with collection of national data and clinical coding. ▸ To gain the views of frontline staff on proposed improvements to hospital statistics. ▸ To gain an indication of likely clinical engagement in change. ▸ To understand the clinical priority for improvement.

Design

Internet e-survey accessible from Academy of Royal Medical College Website.

Setting

National Health Service (NHS) Trusts.

Participants

1081 NHS hospital consultants and two general practitioners who volunteered to take part.

Results

3.4% of the sample regularly access HES data; 21% are regularly involved in

SUBMITTER: Spencer SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3533019 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature