Catherine Perry

TL;DR: This work represents the first rigorous adaptation of the Charlson comorbidity index for use with ICD-10 data and yields closely similar prevalence and prognosis information by comorbridity category.

TL;DR: An indicator variable about the timing of occurrence of diagnoses can greatly expand the use of routinely coded data for hospital quality improvement programmes and can help guide coding practice in those health systems considering this change in hospital coding.

TL;DR: Recognition of, and response to, history, using a range of perspectives, enabled this reconfiguration of specialist oesophago-gastric cancer surgery services, showing how learning from history can be used to enable successful change.

TL;DR: Perceptions of loss in response to centralization of cancer services in England, where 12 sites offering specialist surgery were reduced to four, are understood and resources to foster coping and resilience are made available to all organizations within the system as they go through major change.

TL;DR: In this paper , a mixed-methods approach was used to evaluate the centralisation of specialist cancer surgery for prostate, bladder, renal and oesophago-gastric cancers in two areas of England.