2021 - 2023 Hospital Acquired Pneumonia cases

​​Request 828803352

Provide 2021 2022 &- 2023 inclusive for HOSPITAL Acquired pneumonia.

Clarification:

I am seeking deaths for HAP as both primary & secondary cause of death PLEASE!

IF too much JUST primary!

Response

Data for this response are provided from the Public Health mortality database, held by Health and Care Jersey’s Public Health directorate and used to produce statistical mortality reporting.

This response considers deaths that occurred in Jersey; it excludes deaths of non-Jersey residents and deaths of Jersey residents occurring elsewhere.

Mortality data is taken from the information collected at death registration. Mortality cause coding is carried out in accordance with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10). All of the conditions documented on the death certificate are coded using the ICD-10; from these, a cause of death is determined and codes are attributed for this and any underlying contributing causes, in line with coding standards.

There is no designated mortality cause code which singularly categorises hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) in the ICD-10 classification. Information for this response represents cases where pneumonia has been recorded in any position in the cause of death coding, including as an underlying or contributory cause, and where hospital-acquired pneumonia / HAP has been explicitly documented on the death certificate.

The following ICD-10 codes were employed in this analysis:

• ​J18.0: Bronchopneumonia, unspecified
• J18.1: Lobar pneumonia, unspecified
• J18.9: Pneumonia, unspecified

Due to the limitations around coding hospital-acquired pneumonia / HAP and variability in the way this is documented on death certificates, the figures may represent a minimum, rather than definitive number of cases.