Amyloidosis diagnosis (FOI)

Request

How many cases of Amyloidosis have been diagnosed in Jersey in the last 5 years ?

Response

The table below shows the number of inpatients admitted with a diagnosis code related to ‘amyloidosis’ for the last five years. Patients are only coded with a diagnosis code when discharged from hospital.

Data Source: Hospital Patient Administration System (TrakCare, Report CDG4G)

As the numbers are small, disclosure control has been used to protect the privacy of patients, and so therefore, we are showing the actual figure as fewer than five (<5). As such, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.  

Article Applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

Appendix

The data have been extracted using the following Diagnosis codes:

E85.0 Non-neuropathic heredofamilial amyloidosis

E85.1 Neuropathic heredofamilial amyloidosis

E85.2 Heredofamilial amyloidosis, unspecified

E85.3 Secondary systemic amyloidosis

E85.4 Organ-limited amyloidosis

E85.8 Other amyloidosis

E85.9 Amyloidosis, unspecified