Anaphylactic shock due to adverse food reaction is not covered by registration or notification. Hence, the detailed data on prevalence by county, age and gender requested by the Deputy is not available. Statistics on the numbers of people diagnosed with anaphylactic shock due to adverse food reaction are also not routinely available. The available data relates to episodes of hospitalisation from these conditions and this information is presented in the table below. The data are derived from the Hospital In-patient Enquiry (HIPE) system which records details on each in-patient and daycase discharge from all publicly-funded acute hospitals. It should be noted that if a patient is admitted more than once for a specific condition, each admission is counted separately in HIPE. For this reason, the figures should not be interpreted as prevalence estimates for these conditions (data for 2013 are provisional).
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Year
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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2013*
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Anaphylactic shock due to adverse food reaction
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44
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33
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45
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43
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58
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55
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60
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63
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62
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65
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*As the remaining queries raised by the Deputy are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to her directly.
