Sepsis: Diagnosis

(asked on 6th September 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Shannon Portrait
Jim Shannon
(Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people by age have been diagnosed with sepsis in the last five years.

Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 14th September 2016

Public Health England does not hold data in the format requested.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is able to provide a count of the number of Finished Discharge Episodes (FDEs) with a primary or secondary diagnosis of sepsis, split by age band for providers in England for the years between 2010-11 and 2014-15.

Information is not held centrally on patients diagnosed in the primary care setting.

Table 1: A count of the number of FDEs with a primary or secondary diagnosis of sepsis, by age band for providers in England for the years between 2010-11 and 2014-15.

Age Bands

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

0-4

18,417

20,080

22,915

23,840

26,725

5-9

577

648

790

853

1,010

10-14

446

415

523

461

635

15-19

814

778

926

980

1,094

20-24

1,220

1,246

1,490

1,770

1,899

25-29

1,373

1,499

1,843

2,032

2,478

30-34

1,510

1,701

2,142

2,540

2,924

35-39

1,697

1,849

2,230

2,319

2,601

40-44

2,213

2,403

2,711

2,988

3,223

45-49

2,775

3,123

3,661

3,937

4,385

50-54

3,462

3,890

4,459

4,942

5,702

55-59

4,130

4,829

5,694

6,115

6,826

60-64

6,162

6,835

7,592

7,893

8,706

65-69

6,624

7,790

9,619

10,805

12,079

70-74

7,766

8,667

9,623

10,458

12,066

75-79

8,955

9,815

10,654

11,793

13,862

80-84

9,427

10,079

11,009

11,584

13,789

85-89

8,340

8,756

9,088

9,739

11,876

90+

5,553

6,054

6,740

7,156

9,173

Unknown

420

558

576

617

719

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital

Notes:

  1. Finished Discharge Episode - A discharge episode is the last episode during a hospital stay (a spell), where the patient is discharged from the hospital or transferred to another hospital. Discharges do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one discharge from hospital within the period.
  2. Number of episodes in which the patient had a primary or secondary diagnosis - The number of episodes where this diagnosis was recorded in any of the 20 primary and secondary diagnosis fields in a Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) record. Each episode is only counted once, even if the diagnosis is recorded in more than one diagnosis field of the record.
  3. ICD-10 codes for Sepsis include – “A02.1 Salmonella sepsis, A20.7 Septicaemic plague, A21.7 Generalized tularaemia, A22.7 Anthrax sepsis, A26.7 Erysipelothrix sepsis, A28.0 Pasteurellosis, A28.2 Extraintestinal yersiniosis, A32.7 Listerial sepsis, A39.2 Acute meningococcaemia, A39.3 Chronic meningococcaemia, A39.4 Meningococcaemia, unspecified, A40.- Streptococcal sepsis, A41.- Other sepsis, A42.7 Actinomycotic sepsis, B37.7 Candidal sepsis, O85.X Puerperal sepsis, P36.- Bacterial sepsis of newborn,
    The following pair of codes is a dagger/asterisk code pair (D and A) which must be present together: A39.1 Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, E35.1 Disorders of adrenal glands in diseases classified elsewhere.

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