Get yearly ICD-10 diagnosis code usage from Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care in England

Downloads (if not already cached) and returns the yearly summary of 4-character ICD-10 code usage from 1st April 2012 onwards. The code usage represents the annual count of all episodes which record the given ICD-10 code in any primary or secondary position. Restricted codes for which annual usage is not published have been removed.

start_date: Start date of code usage count
end_date: End date of code usage count
icd10_code: The 4-character ICD-10 Code. Note that the punctuation from the code has been removed for compatibility with OpenCodelists.
usage: Annual count of code usage.
description: Description of the ICD-10 Code

Usage

get_hesapc_icd10(version = NULL)

Source

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity

Arguments

version: String, dataset version, or NULL for the latest (default)

Value

A tibble

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Filter to codes in the ICD-10 Chapter XIX: "Injury, poisoning..."
# (codes begin with letters "S" or "T"), with usage > 10,000.
get_hesapc_icd10() |>
  dplyr::filter(grepl("^[ST]", icd10_code) & usage > 10000)
} # }