ArticleThe Medico-legal journal2023
Lessons from web scraping coroners' Prevention of Future Deaths reports.
Article in The Medico-legal journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Recognition of Coroners' Concerns to Prevent Future Deaths from Medicines: A Systematic Review.Pharmaceutical medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Automating thematic review of prevention of future deaths reports: concordance study of a child-suicide analysis using large language models.BMJ mental health · 2026Article
- Thematic analysis of Prevention of Future Death reports for suicide: January 2021 to October 2022.BMJ mental health · 2024Article
- Preventable deaths involving opioids in England and Wales, 2013-2022: a systematic case series of coroners' reports.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Death, social reform and the scrutiny of social welfare provision: the role of the contemporary inquest.The Journal of social welfare & family law · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
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.
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