Get yearly ICD-10 diagnosis code usage breakdowns from Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care in England — get_hesapc_icd10

Downloads (if not already cached) and returns the yearly summary of 4-character ICD-10 code usage with demographic breakdowns from 1st April 2012 onwards. Includes breakdowns by diagnosis type (all/main), sex, and age group. 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.
description: Description of the ICD-10 Code
breakdown: Type of breakdown: all_diagnoses, main_diagnosis, male, female, gender_unknown, or age groups (age_0, age_1_4, age_5_9, ..., age_85_89, age_90plus)
usage: Annual count of code usage. NA where suppressed due to small numbers.

Usage

get_hesapc_icd10_breakdowns(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{
# Compare male vs female usage for codes containing "pregnancy"
get_hesapc_icd10_breakdowns() |>
  dplyr::filter(grepl("pregnancy", description, ignore.case = TRUE)) |>
  dplyr::filter(breakdown %in% c("male", "female"))
} # }