Guidance

AAA screening: protocol for reporting deaths

The quality assurance process within the AAA screening programme includes monitoring mortality rates in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Documents

Flowchart for reporting deaths within the NHS AAA Screening Programme

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These documents outline the process for reporting deaths within the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programme.

They should be read alongside other AAA screening operational guidance documents.

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Published 1 July 2014
Last updated 9 December 2019 + show all updates
  1. Updated AAA death reporting guidance.

  2. Removed pro forma appendices as no longer used.

  3. Revised national protocol for reporting deaths in AAA programme published 22 August 2016

  4. First published.