Yearly OPCS-4 Code Usage from Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity in England
Source:R/data.R
opcs4_usage.RdYearly summary of 4-character OPCS-4 code usage from 1st April 2013 to 31st March 2024. The code usage represents the total annual count of each procedure, recorded across the primary and the secondary procedure positions. Restricted codes for which annual usage is not published have been removed.
Format
A data frame with 107,376 rows and 5 columns:
- start_date
Start date of code usage count
- end_date
End date of code usage count
- opcs4_code
The 4-character OPCS-4 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 OPCS-4 Code
Examples
# Filter to procedures involving "biopsy" after March 2020 (note each year runs April - March).
opcs4_usage |>
dplyr:: filter(grepl("biopsy", description, ignore.case = TRUE) & lubridate:: year(end_date) > 2020)
#> # A tibble: 1,029 × 5
#> start_date end_date opcs4_code description usage
#> <date> <date> <chr> <chr> <int>
#> 1 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A041 Open biopsy of lesion of tissue of fr… 210
#> 2 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A042 Open biopsy of lesion of tissue of te… 121
#> 3 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A043 Open biopsy of lesion of tissue of pa… 101
#> 4 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A044 Open biopsy of lesion of tissue of oc… 24
#> 5 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A045 Open biopsy of lesion of tissue of ce… 35
#> 6 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A046 Open biopsy of lesion of tissue of br… 21
#> 7 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A048 Other specified open biopsy of lesion… 75
#> 8 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A049 Unspecified open biopsy of lesion of … 6
#> 9 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A081 Biopsy of lesion of tissue of frontal… 294
#> 10 2023-04-01 2024-03-31 A082 Biopsy of lesion of tissue of tempora… 135
#> # ℹ 1,019 more rows