FOI REF:FOI/2023/4738
You asked
Please supply the number of fatalities resulting in sudden adult death syndrome during 2022.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry
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 these causes, an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules. The underlying cause of death is defined by World Health Organisation (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
The ICD-10 code for Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is R96, however we also can look at I49.9 Cardiac Arrythmia and I46.1 Sudden Cardiac Death.
We have not conducted analysis deaths due to Adult Sudden Death Syndrome for 2022.
2022 data is still in provisional format to allow the inclusion of late registrations, which are deaths referred for Coroner investigation. This analysis will be published in July 2023 on our NOMIS Webservice and as part of the 21st Century Mortality publication. The publication date will be announced on our Release Calendar.
However, we can provide this as a bespoke request for you using provisional data. User requested data sets are subject to disclosure control, legal frameworks, resources and agreement to costs under the ONS Charging policy.
If you would like to discuss this further, or to obtain a quote for this work please contact the Health Analysis and Pandemic Insight Customer Service team at Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.