: Data-Field 41250

Data-Field 41250

Description:	Methods of discharge from hospital (recoded)
Category:	Health outcomes ⏵ Externally sourced health outcomes ⏵ Hospital inpatient ⏵ Summary Administration
	Health outcomes + Linked health outcomes

Participants

450,851

Value Type

Categorical (multiple)

Both sexes

Jun 2013

630,475

Data

Singular

Aug 2025

Ongoing

Primary

Yes (7)

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Data

630,475 items of data are available, covering 450,851 participants, encoded using Data-Coding 268.
Array indices run from 0 to 6.

CategoryCount

Discharged on clinical advice/consent487680443554
- Discharged on clinical advice/consent: From inpatient/daycase care29417
- Discharged on clinical advice/consent: Transfer within provider12321
- Discharged on clinical advice/consent: Transfer to another provider1763
- Discharged on clinical advice/consent: Leave of absence granted21
- Discharged on clinical advice/consent: By mental health review596
- Discharged on clinical advice/consent: Under community care order8
Discharged without clinical advice/consent10502344
- Discharged without clinical advice/consent: Self, relative or advocate9750
- Discharged without clinical advice/consent: Self discharge342
- Discharged without clinical advice/consent: Discharged by relative or advocate65
- Discharged without clinical advice/consent: Absconded from detention1
Patient death2013619574
- Patient death: Post-mortem performed21
- Patient death: Post-mortem not performed528
- Patient death: Whilst on pass3
- Patient death: Stillbirth10
Not applicable108922
Not known3235

Notes

This field is a summary of the distinct method of discharge codes a participant has had recorded in their hospital inpatient records. Method of discharge from hospital identifies how a patient was discharged - i.e. whether this was on clinical advice, the patient died in hospital or the patient discharged themselves.

Note that the original information was obtained from a variety of external sources, some of which used overlapping and contradictory coding schemes. This field has been re-coded to remove such data conflicts.

This field corresponds to the field DISMETH_UNI on the HESIN table; see the Inpatient Data Dictionary (Resource 141140) in Category 2000 for information about the HESIN table.

In order to conduct detailed analyses of this data using the source information, researchers will need to gain access to the HESIN table by adding Field 41259 to their basket.

1 Related Data-Field

Field ID	Description	Relationship
41213	Methods of discharge from hospital ( ...	Current Field is a recoded version of polymorphic Field 41213

1 Resource

Preview	Name	Res ID
	Mapping inpatient hospital data across England, Scotland and Wales	146641

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