NACAP: COPD Clinical Audit for Patient Discharges 2018/19

The 2018/19 audit report presents data for patients discharged between 1 October 2018 and 30 September 2019. It describes key process measures for COPD care, including team reviews, oxygen prescription, and smoking cessation referrals. The report was produced by the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme to support quality improvement.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital performance based on key process measures like timely respiratory team review.
• Analyzing smoking cessation intervention rates based on recorded smoking status and referral data.
• Studying the application of clinical protocols based on measures for oxygen prescription and non-invasive ventilation.
• Evaluating discharge processes based on reported NEWS2 scores and discharge procedure data.

Strengths

• Focuses on a defined one-year cohort of patients discharged between specific dates.
• Covers multiple key clinical process measures for COPD care as listed in the description.
• Serves a stated national quality improvement objective for the NACAP programme.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme (NACAP)

Collection Method

Clinical audit from continuous data collection launched 1 February 2017.

Time Range

Patient discharges from 1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019.

Freshness

Data covers discharges from 2018/19; report recency is unknown.

Geography

Likely national coverage for the audit programme; specific geography not stated.