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Uptake of service specific codes for the COVID oximetry @Home Pulse Oximetry service: an analysis of 57 million patients' primary care records using OpenSAFELY
This study investigated clinical coding used to support remote pulse oximetry services, with breakdown by regional, clinical and demographic subgroups.
Abstract
Background NHS England guidance was issued in November 2020 for use of COVID Oximetry @home (informally named CO@h) to detect early deterioration of patients with COVID-19 in primary and community care settings.
- Colm Andrews,
- Chris Wood,
- Louis Fisher,
- Helen Curtis,
- Will Hulme,
- Amir Mehrkhar,
- Rebecca Smith,
- David Evans,
- Tom Ward,
- Simon Davy,
- Peter Inglesby,
- Iain Dillingham,
- Steven Maude,
- Thomas O'Dwyer,
- Ben Butler-Cole,
- Lucy Bridges,
- Chris Bates,
- Jonathan Cockburn,
- Shaun O’Hanlon,
- Dima Avramov,
- Richard Jarvis,
- Alex J Walker,
- Ben Goldacre,
- Brian MacKenna,
- Seb Bacon