Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 October 2018
226. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason over 120 known KPC-CPE positive patients were excluded from the review into CPE deaths in UHL in view of the fact that many in the exclusion category were known to be KPC-CPE positive and died during the period that the review covered. [44050/18]
View answer“Report on the death of patients in whom CPE had been detected” was published on 9 October by the HSE and ULHG. It detailed the review of all deaths in patients in whom CPE had been detected between February 2009 and May 2017.
The report notes that 195 patients had been identified as CPE positive during this time period. The report reviewed 74 of these patients. This is the group of patients identified as deceased and therefore appropriate to include per the scope of the review.
