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Executive publishes clinical outcome indicators
31/01/2001
The Scottish Executive Health Department today issued the latest Clinical Outcome Indicators Report, featuring extensive new sections on colorectal cancer and Scottish hospital emergency admissions.
The report, which includes information on maternal, child and dental health, is the eighth in a series by the Clinical Outcomes Working Group of the Clinical Resource and Audit Group (CRAG).
It shows a decrease in standardised pregnancy rates among 13 to 15 year- olds. It also shows that despite increasing incidence of colorectal cancer in Scotland during the last 30 years, mortality has decreased in all age groups.
The report shows that emergency admissions, particularly to medical specialties, are continuing to rise. Patients who were admitted several times as emergencies have contributed disproportionately to this overall increase in admissions, with the most dramatic increases relating to care of the elderly. In the five-year period 1995 to 1999, 10 per cent of the population aged 85 year and over was admitted as an emergency on four or more occasions.
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr Mac Armstrong said:
"Scotland is at the leading edge in the use and publication of clinical indicators. This report, the eighth in the series, continues the process of making information about effectiveness in NHSScotland openly available to the public.
"This Scottish data is among the best of its kind in the world and is published in order to inform public debate on these issues rather than provide direct proof or otherwise of the quality of care in individual hospitals or units."
BACKGROUND
- A total of 41 indicators have been produced in reports published in December 1994, December 1995, July 1996, March 1998 and July 1999. The current report updates several indicators published in previous reports and contains extensive new sections on colorectal cancer and emergency admissions to Scottish hospitals.
2. Copies will also be available on the ISD wesite tomorrow at www.show.scot.nhs.uk/indicators
News Release: SE0199/2001
31 Jan 2001