UK Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) audit: round 3 (2010-2012)

Data from the UK IBD audit requires careful interpretation and the information should not be looked at in isolation when assessing standards of care. The results should be interpreted within the context of the fact that many sites entered a relatively small number of cases to the audit and therefore all percentages should be viewed alongside the actual number of cases submitted. As a reflection of this a very small number of events can change percentages quite dramatically and hence caution is advised. Data relating to round 3 of the UK IBD audit (2010-2012) organisational and inpatient care audit elements are being made available, data for adult and paediatric sites is provided separately. The organisational audit data provided gives an indication of how an IBD service is resourced and organised in relation to the IBD Standards, they are not a definition of clinical quality. The inpatient care audit data provided gives information about the process of care provided to IBD inpatients. These data items were identified by the UK IBD audit steering group as reflecting the questions from the round 3 inpatient care dataset of particular importance to IBD patients. These data do not include any data about individual patients nor does it contain any patient identifiable data. The remit of the UK IBD audit covers the whole of the UK, however data here are provided at ‘site’ level for all participating sites, in England only. The term ‘site’ refers to an IBD Service that may be run across one or more hospitals within an NHS organisation, therefore an NHS Trust in England can comprise of one or more sites. Inpatient care audit data included patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease that were admitted to a site between 1 September 2010 and 31 August 2012, organisational audit data related to the organisation ‘as at 1st September 2010’