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The Inquiry's independent assessment of the quality of the PCS service in Bristol

20 So far, we have looked at data which were known (or knowable) by the clinicians in Bristol at the time. To the extent that mortality rates were one indicator of the adequacy of the care provided, the data we have considered so far were all available at the time. Our concern was whether they were adequately addressed. Now we turn to what can be known with hindsight. We turn to the studies which the Inquiry commissioned from our group of Expert advisers. There were two types of study: the first consisted of a retrospective statistical analysis of all the relevant sources of data on clinical performance; the second was the Clinical Case Note Review (CCNR).