Heart of Birmingham hospital admissions within 30d of NHS NTC in F/Y 2011/12

A file provided by Heart of Birmingham PCT (as was) under freedom of information legislation. It was prepared for the author of this research and the information does not seem to have been collated or reviewed otherwise (although Birmingham Children's Hospital had raised the alarm some 2 y previously regarding significant complications seen in A&E, mainly infants). This file shows the early (up to 30 day) readmissions from religious infant circumcisions in financial year 2011-12 (N=1,359). It was generated by asking them to perform a query using the unique patient ID as a pivot. The data includes days between op and admission, primary and secondary diagnosis, primary and secondary procedure codes (where relevant), length of stay and the cost of the spell. It's difficult to analyse in pdf but HOB PCT refused the excel version so I have partially retyped into excel to make analysis possible. See in the West Midlands folder. We can say that 8 cases are almost definately circ complications (the're coded as urinary issue or 'complications of a procedure') but there are many more that may have been. It's useful to remember in analysing this data that Birmingham Children's Hospital verified data shows infant circumcision complications may present initially as something else - some verified cases presented with, for example, respiratory or gastric issues. The same things has been observed in data from Leeds. Researchers need therefore to be wary of assuming that analysis of presenting issue gives a full picture of NTC adverse effects. It doesn't.