What are the search criteria for the data collection spreadsheet?
1. Date of admission must be between 1st January 2016 and 31st December 2016 inclusive;
2. Patients admitted as an emergency (only include hospitals that can admit patients as an emergency - the hospital name on the spreadsheet is the admitting hospital);
3. Patients that died in hospital with a primary diagnosis of heart failure.
What are the criteria for previous admissions on the data collection spreadsheet (last 2 columns on spreadsheet)?
1. Time period: any admissions counting 12 months back from the final episode i.e. from the date of admission when the patient subsequently died in hospital with a primary diagnosis of heart failure;
2. any type of admission (not only emergency admissions);
3. the heart failure ICD-10 code can be in any position.
