Publications by authors named "Davidson Ho"
Objective: To determine the risk of non-fatal self harm in the 12 months after discharge from psychiatric inpatient care.
Design: Cohort study based on national hospital episode statistics.
Setting: England.
Aims: To review Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data for England coded as being 'drug induced' during 1996-2000 and to consider their potential utility for assessing the public health burden of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and studying drug safety.
Methods: ICD-10 codes including the words 'drug-induced' or 'due to' a medicine or which are recognized to be invariably caused by a drug were extracted along with external cause codes indicating that a drug was implicated (i.e.
Although the mortality and incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) in England and Wales has declined in recent years, an ageing population has contributed to keeping the prevalence of CHD largely unchanged. Evidence suggests that revascularisation procedures have contributed not only to this decline in mortality, but also to the decline in morbidity from heart disease, and to improvements in quality of life, even in old age. Despite clinical evidence of benefit, revascularisation is less often provided for older people and for women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The assessment and reporting of national patterns of psychiatric hospital admissions is important for strategic service development and planning.
Aims: To investigate patterns of psychiatric hospital admissions of patients aged 16-64 years in England.
Method: We used the Department of Health's national Hospital Episode Statistics data on admissions to National Health Service hospitals in England between April 1999 and March 2000, to investigate patterns by region, gender, age and diagnosis.