FOI 8063 - Discharge summaries mentioning spiking
Date: 09 May 2023 to 09 May 2026
Digital discharge summaries: Where a freetext search is possible, how many digital discharge summaries included any of the terms “spiked”, “spike” or “spiking" over the past 5 calendar years, and the year to date. Please provide data for each year:- 2018 to 2023
- Request ID:FOI 8063
- Category:Patient - Activity Data
- Response:
May 2023
Digital discharge summaries: Where a freetext search is possible, how many digital discharge summaries included any of the terms “spiked”, “spike” or “spiking" over the past 5 calendar years, and the year to date. Please provide data for each year:- 2018 to 2023
Please note: from a freetext search “spiked”, “spike” or “spiking" is only used in reference to:
- Temperature
- Fever
- CRP Levels
- Cardiology Traces
- Bony Prominences
In addition, we have only just been able to capture this data from 25th September 2022 to 26th April 2023. Therefore, please see below figures for both partial years below:
1) 2018 No data held
2) 2019 No data held
3) 2020 No data held
4) 2021 No data held
5) 2022 from 25/09/2022 to 31/12/2022 - 46
6) 2023 - latest available data - please specify period from 01/01/2023 to 26/04/2023 – 122
