Introduction
Inpatient and Day case (SMR01) records one primary diagnosis and up to 5 secondary diagnoses.
Diagnosis data within this page is based on the main diagnosis recorded on an inpatient or day case episode.
The information within this page is currently classed as National Statistics. Currently the statistics are produced in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, available on the UK Statistics Authority website.
An episode is generated when a patient is discharged from hospital but also when a patient is transferred between hospitals, significant facilities, specialties or to the care of a different consultant.
Details on the clinical coding used to record diagnosis can be found in the following Data Sources and Clinical Coding document 
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The information linked below has been updated to include the most recent available data.
Diagnoses Data - All Ages
The following tables contain data on the main diagnosis of patient discharges from hospitals (episodes and incidence) by NHS Board of Residence and Community Health Partnership, age and gender (including rates per 100,000 population) for financial years 2006/07 to 2010/11. Incidence count looks for the first occurrence of a diagnosis within a given time period. The incidence table is based on a 5 year incidence look back period.
Diagnosis Data - NHS Board of Residence 
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Diagnosis Data - CHP [24.4Mb]
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Long-Term Conditions
Long-term condition (LTC) is a very broad term with a range of definitions. Existing routine databases generally give limited information regarding either the duration or severity of individual diseases. As a generic group, LTCs are difficult to measure.
The number of episodes and bed days by NHS Board of Residence and Community Health Partnership, age and gender (including rates per 100,000 population) for financial years 2006/07 to 2010/11 for patients with a main condition of the selected long term conditions of Diabetes, Hypertensive Diseases, Angina, Acute Myocardial Infarction, Other Ischaemic Heart Disease, Heart Failure, COPD or Asthma are available in the tables below.
These tables relate to the HEAT target T6 - Hospital admissions and bed days for Long Term Conditions.
Long Term Conditions -NHS Board of Residence [935Kb]
Long Term Conditions -CHP [3.9Mb]
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Further information on Long Term Conditions can be found on the ISD Website under Health and Social Community Care.
ISD released a paper on Measuring Long-Term Conditions in Scotland (August 08) 
[470kb].
Further information on HEAT can be found on the Scotland Performs Website.
Diagnoses Data - Children aged 14 and under
For children aged 14 years and under, the three most common main diagnosis groupings for elective inpatient and day case admissions in 2010/11 were: 'Diseases of the digestive system' (24.8%) - mainly attributable to dental caries, 'Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (includes admissions for examination, observation, immunisation, stoma care, respite care, disrupted family/home circumstances, awaiting fostering)' (13.8%) and ‘Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities’ (10.7%).
For children aged 14 years and under, the three most common main diagnosis groupings for emergency admissions in 2010/11 were: 'Diseases of the respiratory system' (23.9%), 'Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified' (18.5%) and ‘Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes' (16.6%).
Data on the number of episodes by main diagnosis by age group for children aged 14 years and under; for financial years 2006/07 - 2010/11 is available in the Excel file below.
Diagnoses (elective and emergency episodes) [10.4Mb]
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Further Childhood Health Information under the Child Heath Topic including information on immunisation, infant feeding, and children's weight and growth.
