Government of Jersey

Myocarditis and Pericarditis cases since 2020 (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 17 October 2022.
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Request

Please can you provide the number of cases of Myocarditis and Pericarditis (separately, not combined) in Jersey on a monthly basis since January 2020.

If monthly is not possible then please provide this annually.

If possible, please also provide a split by gender.

Response

The numbers provided represent admissions to Jersey General Hospital (JGH). Data is not held by Health and Community Services (HCS) on any cases of myocarditis or pericarditis that have not resulted in admission to JGH and Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 Law applies.

Clinical Coding of a patient's admission is carried out after discharge from hospital and is not available through to current date. Data has been provided for 2020 to 2021 inclusive, as the last completed year. Attendances at hospital that do not result in admission are not subject to Clinical Coding.

Data for admissions in which a patient was diagnosed with myocarditis for the period 2020 – 2021 has been provided in response to a recent Freedom of Information request. As this information is accessible by other means, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Sudden deaths and hospital admissions FOI (gov.je)

The data provided in the table below represents all cases where pericarditis was recorded as acute, or where pericarditis was recorded as chronic or unspecified in nature as a condition necessitating care, either at presentation or in the course of an admission irrespective of the reason for attendance.

Data is derived from reporting by discharge date. As such, patients who were admitted prior to 1st January 2020 but discharged after this date will be included. For the same reason, patients admitted prior to 31st December 2021 but discharged after this date will not be included in the numbers.

Year	Pericarditis
2020	15
2021	8

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

The table below provides the breakdown of admissions per month for 2020 and 2021. Where numbers are small, disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals and numbers fewer than five are represented as '<5'. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Date of discharge (Month / Year)	Number of patients with recorded diagnosis of pericarditis
Jan-20	0
Feb-20	<5
Mar-20	<5
Apr-20	0
May-20	<5
Jun-20	<5
Jul-20	<5
Aug-20	<5
Sep-20	<5
Oct-20	<5
Nov-20	<5
Dec-20	<5
Jan-21	0
Feb-21	<5
Mar-21	0
Apr-21	0
May-21	0
Jun-21	0
Jul-21	<5
Aug-21	0
Sep-21	<5
Oct-21	<5
Nov-21	<5
Dec-21	<5

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

For the period January 2020 to December 2021, 35% of admissions with pericarditis were female and 65 % of admissions were male.

For the period January 2020 to December 2021, 25% of admissions with myocarditis were female and 75% of admissions were male.

Due to small numbers, Health and Community Services are unable to provide a further breakdown of the figures by gender. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals.

The following ICD-10 codes were used to extract this data:

I01.0: Acute rheumatic pericarditis
I02.0: Rheumatic chorea with heart involvement
I09.2: Chronic rheumatic pericarditis
I30.0 – I30.9: Acute pericarditis
I31.0: Chronic adhesive pericarditis
I31.1: Chronic constrictive pericarditis
I31.9: Disease of pericardium unspecified
Incl: Cardiac tamponade
Pericarditis (chronic) NOS
I32.0* - I32.8*: Pericarditis in diseases classified elsewhere

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.

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.