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the following data in respect of each of the five types of surgery performed in each public hospital in the past year
Reply:
(i)
the number of operations performed;
(ii)
(iii)
the average hospitalisation time required and its standard deviation; and
the complication rate?
The five types of most commonly performed surgery in 1996 as recorded in the following eight public hospitals, namely, Caritas Medical Centre (CMC), Queen Mary Hospital (QMH), Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital (PYNEH), Kwong Wah Hospital (KWH), United Christian Hospital (UCH), Ruttonjee Hospital (RH) and Yan Chai Hospital (YCH) are -
(a)
aspiration and curettage of the uterus;
(b) lower segment caessarian section;
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(c)
(d)
(e)
insertion of prosthetic lens;
close fracture reduction with internal fixation; and unilateral inguinal hernia repair.
Details on the number of operations performed, the average length of stay in hospital and its standard deviation in respect of each of the five types of surgery mentioned above and performed in these eight hospitals in 1996 are shown in the Annex.
The above information is retrieved from the Hospital Authority's (HA's) computerised Medical Records Abstract System (MRAS), which has been implemented in eleven HA's hospitals, with full year data available for the eight hospitals mentioned in paragraph 1.
Collating statistics on surgical procedures in the hospitals without MRAS is extremely difficult as it requires professional staff to retrieve and review manually the medical records of all patients discharged in the past year, and each major hospital has between 40,000 to 100,000 discharges each year.
Information on complication rates is not presently captured in the MRAS and is therefore not available. Collating such information manually is more difficult as it requires professional staff to identify whether another co-existing disease is co- incidental or is a result of the disease itself or of treatment given.