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Dept of Health

Answer

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital admissions there were for (a) inflammatory arthritis and (b) psoriatic arthritis in the last year for which figures are available. [223186] Dr. Ladyman: The information requested is shown in the following table. Counts of finished admission episodes for selected diagnoses on admission. national health service hospitals, England 2003-04 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Condition Total Inflammatory arthritis 55,960 Psoriatic arthritis 2,488 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. 2. The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the hospital episode statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital. 3. Diagnosis codes used: (a) Inflammatory arthritis M05--M14 Inflammatory Polyarthropathies. (b) Psoriatic arthritis--Primary: L40.5 Arthropathic psoriasis. 4. As well as the primary diagnosis, there are up to 13 (six prior to 2002-03) secondary diagnosis fields in HES that show other diagnoses relevant to the episode of care. 5. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed). Source: HES, Department of Health.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1045W;432 c1045-6W; 223186

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Admissions Hospitals Arthritis

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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