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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 2023-0337
Registered primary source SRC-020
Report date 2023-09-19
Coroner area Avon
Clinical setting Emergency/hospital care
Care transition Ambulance/primary care to hospital
Primary workflow group Record access and continuity
Primary browsing context Acute and emergency care
Predominant information boundary Between care settings

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 Primary care, Secondary acute or outpatient care
Information or work-item origin Primary care
Origin care context(s) Primary care
Expected action destination Secondary acute or outpatient care
Destination care context(s) Secondary care
Directional pathway Primary care → Secondary acute or outpatient care
Care-setting span Multiple care settings
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Transfer or interface
Classification confidence high

Classification note: The known allergy was held in EMIS and the Summary Care Record but did not enter the receiving hospital's prescribing and care workflow; ambulance transport was contextual rather than the information source.

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 INT, VIS, HF, GOV

Qualification recorded in the dataset: Report conclusion directly linked unavailable allergy information to death

“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

Routine access and integration were absent and could cause harm

Requested action

Hospital and national recipients to act

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type Summary Care Record, Careflow/Connect and EMIS
Digital function Allergy/record access
Failure mode Known allergy was not routinely accessible or integrated into hospital EPR
Human-factors issue Access was not routine or easy
Workflow issue No automatic transfer into prescribing/care workflow
Information issue Critical allergy stranded in external record

Downstream Defence trace

Canonical candidate requirements that cite this report: REQ-003, REQ-006. 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.