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>> So while men are taking risks, women take one for the team I know you're joking but three of the top four are basically 'work related'. Men taking one for t

>> So while men are taking risks, women take one for the team I know you're joking but three of the top four are basically 'work related'. Men taking one for the team doing all the dangerous jobs. And maybe if the men stop riding motorcycles the women will stop getting plastic surgery which is also shockingly high as a reason to end up in hospital.

zamadatix 11mo ago
This is probably the wrong chart for the comparison. The entire top section involves fewer total people than 3 separate 100% women related items on the bottom. The follow-up article sorted by absolute numbers is a bit better suited, and predictably a bit more bland. Births is nearly in the top 10 though.
- sysguest 11mo ago
  another thing: this article seems to presume "it's bad to be in hospital" ...but that's really going to mess up with general health policy (vaccination, checkup-visits, etc)
  - zamadatix 11mo ago
    These things wouldn't be classified as hospital admissions.
    - mitthrowaway2 11mo ago
      "Supervision of normal pregnancy" seems to fall into this category, doesn't it?
      - zamadatix 11mo ago
        And herein lies the joys of medical coding :). Likely more than 235k normal pregnancy checkups happening in hospitals over 3 years in the UK, these "Z34" codes will likely get coded as admissions if someone is admitted for concerns around the pregnancy and the net result is everything with the pregnancy ended up fine. Maybe some other oddball scenarios I'm not thinking of too, but if you just go in for a planned pregnancy checkup and it comes out fine it (shouldn't) be coded as an admission just because it was done in a hospital location. Unless the NHS just has really odd coding practices, which is possible, but the other chart isn't drowning in 10s and 10s of millions of vaccinations of each type either. For similar reasons you may find a ton of other things which aren't normally an admission in the data, but at numbers less than one might expect because that alone isn't usually reason to admit. I'm glad I got out of healthcare IT!
      - jeremyjh 11mo ago
        I'm a little bit confused about what that is. If you are admitted to hospital for pregnancy and its not delivery (thats a different category that is far larger in absolute numbers) then something has gone wrong.
    - novok 11mo ago
      There are other regular checkup stuff that does end up there depending on how it's filed. Heart imaging, mammograms, colonoscopies, etc.

zamadatix 11mo ago

This is probably the wrong chart for the comparison. The entire top section involves fewer total people than 3 separate 100% women related items on the bottom. The follow-up article sorted by absolute numbers is a bit better suited, and predictably a bit more bland. Births is nearly in the top 10 though.

sysguest 11mo ago
another thing: this article seems to presume "it's bad to be in hospital" ...but that's really going to mess up with general health policy (vaccination, checkup-visits, etc)
- zamadatix 11mo ago
  These things wouldn't be classified as hospital admissions.
  - mitthrowaway2 11mo ago
    "Supervision of normal pregnancy" seems to fall into this category, doesn't it?
    - zamadatix 11mo ago
      And herein lies the joys of medical coding :). Likely more than 235k normal pregnancy checkups happening in hospitals over 3 years in the UK, these "Z34" codes will likely get coded as admissions if someone is admitted for concerns around the pregnancy and the net result is everything with the pregnancy ended up fine. Maybe some other oddball scenarios I'm not thinking of too, but if you just go in for a planned pregnancy checkup and it comes out fine it (shouldn't) be coded as an admission just because it was done in a hospital location. Unless the NHS just has really odd coding practices, which is possible, but the other chart isn't drowning in 10s and 10s of millions of vaccinations of each type either. For similar reasons you may find a ton of other things which aren't normally an admission in the data, but at numbers less than one might expect because that alone isn't usually reason to admit. I'm glad I got out of healthcare IT!
    - jeremyjh 11mo ago
      I'm a little bit confused about what that is. If you are admitted to hospital for pregnancy and its not delivery (thats a different category that is far larger in absolute numbers) then something has gone wrong.
  - novok 11mo ago
    There are other regular checkup stuff that does end up there depending on how it's filed. Heart imaging, mammograms, colonoscopies, etc.