> “Agents primarily acting on smooth and skeletal muscles and the respiratory system” is especially unenlightening, although I suspect it might have something to do with Botox.
That category would include drugs like oxytocin, which is used to induce labor.
Ah! Thanks that’s interesting. Obvs I’m sure lots of women are given oxytocin-like drugs, but is that likely to be recorded as the reason for admission?
This is awesome! I think the graph would be more useful if you cut the 100% pregnancy/childbirth related reasons or reduced them to a single combined line - those lines are ultimately redundant data and mean we learn less about women-majority admission causes.
Thanks! Yes I very nearly did it that way for exactly those reasons. It was a tricky call but in the end I thought it would be better just to show the data as is, rather than make too many decisions myself.
Here, in Australia, falling off ladders and such is one of the highest causes of injury and death. It was interesting to see the data correlating with the recorded NHS data.
My guess - which is only a guess - is that women are just much more into horse riding (which is included in that category), so they much more often have accidents. At the other end of the scale, motorbikes look like horses for boys.
Aaahhhhh. That makes much more sense. I didn’t register that it included horse riding. I assumed it was exclusively including things that involved a separate compartment or vehicle being pulled and was racking my brain thinking of something having gone wrong at a princess ride at Disney or something. 🤣🤣🤣 Really went down a rabbit hole there. 🤦🏻♂️ Thanks.
Yes I can’t really imagine why doctors select that one. But I guess there must sometimes be a reason. Inability to read the label on a medicine bottle can certainly be dangerous!
Is heart disease not a predominantly male issue? Alcohol abuse related ailments? This seems like it was meant to maybe make women look silly compared to our courageous and stoic male existences.
Ah no. This is a misunderstanding. The chart shows the most *male/female-dominated* reasons for admission, not the most common reasons. So if you make a list of all the reasons, then you find the ones that are almost all men or almost all women, this is it. The actual numbers of admissions are in the column on the right.
> “Agents primarily acting on smooth and skeletal muscles and the respiratory system” is especially unenlightening, although I suspect it might have something to do with Botox.
That category would include drugs like oxytocin, which is used to induce labor.
Ah! Thanks that’s interesting. Obvs I’m sure lots of women are given oxytocin-like drugs, but is that likely to be recorded as the reason for admission?
This is awesome! I think the graph would be more useful if you cut the 100% pregnancy/childbirth related reasons or reduced them to a single combined line - those lines are ultimately redundant data and mean we learn less about women-majority admission causes.
Thanks! Yes I very nearly did it that way for exactly those reasons. It was a tricky call but in the end I thought it would be better just to show the data as is, rather than make too many decisions myself.
Here, in Australia, falling off ladders and such is one of the highest causes of injury and death. It was interesting to see the data correlating with the recorded NHS data.
Do you have similar data in Australia? I'd be interested to run the same analysis and see any difference.
Have a look here
https://www.aihw.gov.au/hospitals/topics/admitted-patient-care
Can someone please help me understand the context behind animal drawn vehicle incidents being mostly females?
My guess - which is only a guess - is that women are just much more into horse riding (which is included in that category), so they much more often have accidents. At the other end of the scale, motorbikes look like horses for boys.
Aaahhhhh. That makes much more sense. I didn’t register that it included horse riding. I assumed it was exclusively including things that involved a separate compartment or vehicle being pulled and was racking my brain thinking of something having gone wrong at a princess ride at Disney or something. 🤣🤣🤣 Really went down a rabbit hole there. 🤦🏻♂️ Thanks.
Which are these psycho social circumstances?
A few people have asked this, and it’s a very fair question. You can read a fuller definition here. (It’s quite broad and vague. I don’t know when it’s most often used in practice.) https://ecgwaves.com/icd-code/z64-problems-related-to-certain-psychosocial-circumstances-icd-10-code-in-z55-z65-persons-with-potential-health-hazards-related-to-socioeconomic-and-psychosocial-circumstances/
Thanks for answering. In fact, there is a little more info in this other link that you shared to a similar question.
Yes I’m just googling really. We’d need to ask a doctor how they use the ICD. It might be one of the codes that only a few think of using.
Psychosocial problems? Sounds like an extremely broad category.
Yes the names aren’t always very helpful. You can find more detail about them here https://icd.who.int/browse10/2016/en#/Z55-Z65
Thank you so much for that link. I foresee hours of enjoyment.
I would like to know how many people have been admitted for illiteracy (ill literacy) and unemployment.
Yes I can’t really imagine why doctors select that one. But I guess there must sometimes be a reason. Inability to read the label on a medicine bottle can certainly be dangerous!
What did you find in your research?
I’ve not looked into this I’m afraid. Perhaps Scott has?
I did! And then, of course, I instantly forgot… I’m on my fifth state at the moment, but I may have time to look again when I get to the next airport…
Is heart disease not a predominantly male issue? Alcohol abuse related ailments? This seems like it was meant to maybe make women look silly compared to our courageous and stoic male existences.
There’s a link at the bottom to another blog where I put all the reasons in a separate table, if you’re interested.
Ah no. This is a misunderstanding. The chart shows the most *male/female-dominated* reasons for admission, not the most common reasons. So if you make a list of all the reasons, then you find the ones that are almost all men or almost all women, this is it. The actual numbers of admissions are in the column on the right.
>So only about 400 men in the whole of England go to hospital after falls from scaffolding each year.
Typo? Says on your chart there are 1200 cases . Unless your data shows frequent fliers 😆
Edit: nvm, I thought your chart was averages not aggregate for the whole three years