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 > Section one: statistics relating to clinical performance available to clinicians in Bristol during the period 1984 to 1995

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

1 The sources of statistical data available to the clinicians in Bristol included the clinicians' own logs (handwritten, typed and computerised logs compiled contemporaneously by surgeons, cardiologists, anaesthetists and perfusionists). [3] From these, data were derived for annual statistical summaries, Annual Reports on paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery from 1987 [4] onwards, ad hoc sheets of figures produced for audit [5] and other professional meetings, [6] and Bristol's returns to the UKCSR and to the Supra Regional Services Advisory Group (SRSAG) surveys.

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Footnotes

[3] Further sources of data that were kept by clinical staff included the Theatre Register (see WIT 0341 0039 - 0040 Dr Pryn), Helen Stratton's register of the cases that she dealt with (see WIT 0341 0040 Dr Pryn), and the Nurses' Ward Admission Books

[4] T90 p.13 Dr Joffe; `The 1987 report [UBHT 0055 0009] was the first one'

[5] See Chapter 18

[6] Such as the meeting on the evening of 11 January 1995 before the operation on Joshua Loveday; see Chapter 30