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Scores of deaths at a hospital may have been wrongly attributed to septicaemia, a report has found.
An independent analysis of the "coding" of 150 cases at the Royal Bolton hospital found more than half did not "meet national standards". Coding, the classification of conditions, is used by medics in treatment and analysis.
An interim report, by health watchdog Dr Foster, was commissioned by the Bolton NHS foundation trust after it found an "unusually high number" of deaths had been put down to septicaemia. Dr Jackie Bene, the trust's acting chief executive, stepped aside last week pending an inquiry.
Septicaemia, an infection which enters the bloodstream, is coded differently from other illnesses and septicaemia deaths do not affect hospital mortality figures.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/07/nhs-bolton-hospital-deaths-septicaemia
An independent analysis of the "coding" of 150 cases at the Royal Bolton hospital found more than half did not "meet national standards". Coding, the classification of conditions, is used by medics in treatment and analysis.
An interim report, by health watchdog Dr Foster, was commissioned by the Bolton NHS foundation trust after it found an "unusually high number" of deaths had been put down to septicaemia. Dr Jackie Bene, the trust's acting chief executive, stepped aside last week pending an inquiry.
Septicaemia, an infection which enters the bloodstream, is coded differently from other illnesses and septicaemia deaths do not affect hospital mortality figures.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/07/nhs-bolton-hospital-deaths-septicaemia