Mansfield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Med Leg J. 2023 Sep;91(3):142-147. doi: 10.1177/00258172221141284. Epub 2023 Jan 23.
In England and Wales, coroners are required to write Prevention of Future Deaths reports when a death is deemed preventable so that action is taken to avert similar deaths. Since July 2013, Prevention of Future Deaths reports have been openly available via the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website (https://www.judiciary.uk/prevention-of-future-death-reports/). However, their presentation to date have been insufficient to identify trends and learn lessons. We designed a web scraper to create the Preventable Deaths Tracker (https://preventabledeathstracker.net/). On 22 June 2022, 4001 PFDs were scraped, analysed, and compared to the Office of National Statistics' preventable mortality statistics. This commentary summarises the key findings and offers recommendations to improve the Prevention of Future Deaths system so lessons can be learnt to avert preventable deaths.
在英格兰和威尔士，当死亡被认为是可以预防的时，验尸官被要求撰写《预防未来死亡报告》，以便采取行动避免类似的死亡。自 2013 年 7 月以来，《预防未来死亡报告》已通过法院和法庭司法网站（https://www.judiciary.uk/prevention-of-future-death-reports/）公开提供。然而，迄今为止，它们的呈现方式还不足以确定趋势和吸取教训。我们设计了一个网络爬虫来创建《可预防死亡追踪器》（https://preventabledeathstracker.net/）。2022 年 6 月 22 日，我们抓取了 4001 份 PFD 报告，并进行了分析，并与国家统计局的可预防死亡率统计数据进行了比较。本评论总结了主要发现，并提出了改进《预防未来死亡》系统的建议，以便吸取教训，避免可预防的死亡。
