Wednesday 03 July 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7737
Date Request Received: 08/02/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 14/02/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Orthopaedics department
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Between June 2016 and June 2020 how many tibial fractures (or lower limb fractures) were treated at Salisbury Hospital and of these, How many were referred to the trauma centre at Southampton Hospital. > Further to this: how many of the referrals were male and how many female? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see responses to the questions below - and the limitations with the data available. Notes: The Trust cannot directly answer ‘how many tibial fractures’ for the following reasons: • Some ICD10 codes are for 'multiple' fractures • The same patient may have been readmitted for the same/different fracture • Our data is not collated in a way that allows us to count the number of ICD10 codes within an episode e.g. the same episode could have codes S820 & S821 but the Trust only collate this within 'one episode' • The Trust cannot count the number of individual episodes as the same fracture could be coded multiple times The Trust are therefore supplying the number of discharges where these types of fractures were treated. The Trust does not record specifically which hospital a patient was referred on to, so this answer is for all discharges to code 51 - NHS other Hospital Provider - WARD for general PATIENTS or the younger physically disabled and therefore could include hospitals other than Southampton Hospital. Q1. Between June 2016 and June 2020 how many tibial fractures (or lower limb fractures) were treated at Salisbury Hospital A: 1165 discharges in this period where the patient was treated for a tibial/lower limb fracture. Q1: and of these, How many were referred to the trauma centre at Southampton Hospital. A: 40 were discharged under code 51 - NHS other Hospital Provider - WARD for general PATIENTS or the younger physically disabled Q1: Further to this: how many of the referrals were male and how many female? A: 20 were male and 20 were female. | |
| Question Number 2: What is the age range of both genders (with this type of fracture) who were referred to Southampton. | |
| Answer To Question 2: A: Female - the age range was 38 to 97 years A: Male - the age range was 17 to 92 years | |
| Question Number 3: Would you confirm the meaning of the sentence: “d/w LXV tomorrow”? What is LXV? | |
| Answer To Question 3: d/w - discussed with LXV = Mr Leonidas Vachtsevanos - Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedics | |
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