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Michael Drewell

Evidence boundary. This page is a structured project extraction from the linked primary Prevention of Future Deaths source. It is not the report text. Do not infer cause, prevalence or product-wide performance beyond the source and the explicit qualification below.

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Report metadata

Field Value
PFD reference 2018-0259
Registered primary source SRC-121
Report date 2018-08-30
Coroner area West Yorkshire (Eastern)
Clinical setting Acute hospital care
Care transition Procedure plan to ward prescribing
Primary workflow group Medication and prescribing
Primary browsing context Acute and emergency care
Predominant information boundary Hybrid paper and digital record

The workflow, browsing-context and predominant-boundary fields are retained navigation aids. They are not additional coronial findings, and a single primary value cannot express every aspect of a multi-setting or multi-mechanism report.

Care-pathway classification

This classification distinguishes where safety-relevant information or work arose, where action was expected and where the digital or information workflow failed. It is a project coding of the source, not a coronial statement. “Origin” does not mean the organisation caused the harm.

Dimension Project classification
Settings and pathway participants Secondary acute or outpatient care
Information or work-item origin Secondary acute or outpatient care
Origin care context(s) Secondary care
Expected action destination Secondary acute or outpatient care
Destination care context(s) Secondary care
Directional pathway Secondary acute or outpatient care → Secondary acute or outpatient care
Care-setting span One care setting
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Transfer or interface
Classification confidence high

Classification note: The anticoagulation-duration instruction arose in a handwritten procedure note and was expected in the ward's electronic prescribing workflow within the same hospital; it was lost between record representations.

Classification confidence applies only to this care-pathway coding. It is separate from extraction confidence, source authority and causal certainty.

Evidence status and qualification

Field Status
Extraction confidence high
Verification status Primary source linked; high-confidence extraction
Response evidence status Not assessed in this dataset
Registered response sources None registered for this row
Non-exclusive mechanism codes PROV, VIS, HF, LOOP

Qualification recorded in the dataset: The coroner said it was not possible to determine whether the missed duration caused the death; inclusion preserves that uncertainty

“Response evidence noted” means only that the row qualification refers to response/respondent evidence or records a recipient's post-report position. The linked IDs enumerate the official response attachments registered for this row; they do not imply that every response supports every part of the qualification, and they do not establish implementation. “Not assessed” makes no claim about whether a response exists.

Structured project extraction

These fields are analytical summaries, not quotations.

Project summary of the coroner's concern

The hybrid record allowed an important medication-duration instruction to be missed

Requested action

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to act

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type Handwritten clinical note and electronic medication record
Digital function Anticoagulation-duration communication
Failure mode The intended six-week anticoagulation duration was recorded in handwriting but not carried into the electronic record used by the junior doctor
Human-factors issue The workflow expected clinicians to infer that a separate paper note contained a time-limited instruction
Workflow issue No reconciliation or review task transferred the stop date into the prescribing workflow
Information issue The duration instruction was split across paper and electronic representations

Downstream Defence trace

Canonical candidate requirements that cite this report: REQ-007. These links are analytical translations and do not make the requirement a coronial recommendation or a validated Defence control.

The included-case dataset preserves early legacy_military_relevance and legacy_derived_requirement fields for audit history. They are not published here as requirements and must not override the canonical REQ register. New report rows do not need to populate them.