You asked
Please provide the number of deaths recorded where pulmonary embolism is mentioned on the death certificate in the year 2019.
We said
Thank you for your request.
All of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) the coded mortality data available up to end of December 2019 is coded to version 2014 of the ICD10 framework. From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules. The underlying cause of death is defined by WHO as:
a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or
b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury
Our annual mortality data is available by cause for the years 2013-2019. This is available as part of our explorable data service, accessible via the following link: NOMIS webservice. Pulmonary embolism is coded under I26.0-I26.9.
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If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk