Jarvis S and Fraser LK. Comparing routine inpatient data and death records as a means of identifying children and young people with life-limiting conditions. Palliat Med 2018; 32(2): 543–553.
In this article errors occurred in Table 5, the incorrect values have been corrected. The correct table should be as follows:
Table 5:
Recorded cause of death for cohort members, excluding English neonates, split by diagnostic group.
| Diagnostic group – English data | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life limiting condition recording | Neurology | Haematology | Oncology | Respiratory | Circulatory | Gastrointestinal | Genitourinary | Perinatal | Congenital | Metabolic | Other | |
| As underlying cause | Matched* | 3143 (45%) |
5105 (83%) |
8862 (94%) |
3188 (49%) |
1457 (52%) |
1242 50%) |
2167 (43%) |
652 (28%) |
2766 (41%) |
1288 (65%) |
700 (72%) |
| Related* | 1423 (20%) |
108 (2%) |
21 (0%) |
785 (12%) |
439 (16%) |
174 (7%) |
408 (8%) |
658 (28%) |
1635 (24%) |
99 (5%) |
24 (2%) |
|
| As contributing cause | 946 (13%) |
457 (7%) |
292 (3%) |
1046 (16%) |
431 (15%) |
425 (17%) |
900 (18%) |
400 (17%) |
1088 (16%) |
333 (17%) |
155 (16%) |
|
| With trauma-related underlying cause | 33 | <10 | 11 | 18 | <10 | 16 | 32 | <10 | 29 | <10 | <10 | |
| Not recorded | 1516 (21%) |
455 (7%) |
299 (3%) |
1448 (22%) |
455 (16%) |
650 (26%) |
1571 (31%) |
609 (26%) |
1334 (20%) |
263 (13%) |
91 (9%) |
|
| All deaths associated with diagnostic group | 7028 | 6125 | 9474 | 6467 | 2782 | 2491 | 5046 | 2319 | 6823 | 1983 | 970 | |
*
‘Matched’ underlying causes are those that matched diagnostic codes within the life limiting condition coding framework. ‘Related’ causes were considered to be related to framework diagnoses present for the individual in the inpatient data.