Long covid (post covid-19 condition) is a complex condition with diverse manifestations, uncertain prognosis and wide variation in current approaches to management. There have been calls for formal quality standards to reduce a so-called “postcode lottery” of care. The original aim of this stu...
The lockdown in England ends on Wednesday 2 December 2020, with the country moving once again to a three tier system. You can check which tier an area is in usingthis handy postcode look-upon the Government website. The good news is that this means that from this date, we'll be able...
(IMD; divided into quintiles with 1 representing the most deprived and 5 representing the least deprived). Area-level SES was measured using the IMD 2019, a composite of different domains including area-level income, employment, education access and crime, for the postcode where a participant ...
Figure 6: The postcode page on the GOV.UK Coronavirus dashboard, which enables users to look up local summary of stats in a particular UK postcode, is one of the more demanding on the dashboard site. This is a local postcode summary page for Westminster’s SW1...
We excluded 13 patients from our analysis whose residential postcode was not within the Lothian Region, and three patients who did not have a registered postcode. Case distribution by SIMD quintile was bimodal, with peaks in the second most deprived quintile (SIMD 2: n = 183, 25.8%) ...
Participants were also asked for their full postcode, from which geographical region and indices of multiple deprivation were determined16. Participants were asked if they thought they had previously, or currently, had COVID-19. We recoded answers into a binary variable (“I’ve definitely had it...
Throughout the analysis we measure socioeconomic status by an index of income deprivation provided by the Office of National Statistics that is measured at the LSOA level and is linked with patient-level hospital data [6] using patient's postcode of residence. Our general approach consists of ...
English Index of Multiple Depriva- tion (IMD) deciles were summarised as a categorical fac- tor with decile of 1 indicating that the postcode is in the bottom 10% of the deprivation index, a decile of 2 indi- cating that the postcode is in the bottom 10–20%, and so on. We divided...
more field hospitals, and to plan shipments of scarce personal protective equipment. There are already apps that dosymptom trackingbut more would be better. So the UK app will ask for the first three characters of your postcode, which is about enough to locate which hospital you’d end up ...
Maternal area-level deprivation was based on postcode of residence and derived according to the standard measure used by the Scottish Government (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation [SIMD]) which ranks areas by deprivation on the basis of seven domains: income, employment, education, health, ...