Annex A > Chapter 19 - Statistics Relating to the Clinical Performance of Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Services in Bristol Compared with Other Specialist Centres during the Period 1984 to 1995
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Chapter 19 - Statistics Relating to the Clinical Performance of Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Services in Bristol Compared with Other Specialist Centres during the Period 1984 to 1995
Introduction: purpose and scope of the chapter
Section one: statistics relating to clinical performance available to clinicians in Bristol during the period 1984 to 1995
Statistics relating to clinical performance produced by the clinicians in Bristol
Accessibility, availability and use of logs
The Annual Reports on paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery
Statistics produced for audit and other meetings
The South West Congenital Heart Register
The METASA System and the Patient Analysis and Tracing System
Statistics relating to clinical performance at other specialist centres (for the purpose of comparison) available from external sources
The United Kingdom Cardiac Surgical Register (UKCSR)
Statistics relating to clinical outcomes available from professional meetings, contacts and journals as a means of comparison
Professional meetings, other professional contacts and professional journals
Other statistics relating to clinical performance
Section two: the views of the Inquiry's Experts on the interpretation of statistics relating to clinical performance which were available to clinicians in Bristol during the period 1984 to 1995
Statistics relating to clinical performance produced by the clinicians in Bristol
Statistics relating to clinical performance at other specialist centres (for the purpose of comparison) available from external sources
Section three: the principal conclusions of the Inquiry's Experts on statistics
The Experts' summary of their principal conclusions
The principal conclusions in greater detail
Section four: the evidence of the Inquiry's Experts relating to post-operative morbidity
Identifying morbidity in the form of brain damage following heart surgery in children
The nature and extent of post-operative morbidity in Bristol
Post-operative morbidity in Bristol compared with other specialist centres
The Experts' overall conclusions
Section five: views on the interpretation, reliability and validity of the evidence on statistics received by the Inquiry
Comments of the clinicians at Bristol (and others) on the evidence of the Experts on statistics received by the Inquiry, and the Experts' responses
The interpretation of the statistical evidence relating to clinical performance in Bristol
The national sources of statistics used to compare clinical performance
The statistical methods used by the Experts to analyse the data
Differences in the data presented in the evidence of the Inquiry's Experts and the data submitted by the Bristol surgeons
The Bristol surgeons' formal written comments on the Experts' Overview Report and the Experts' responses
Assessments of the Experts' Overview Report
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