Towards evidence based circumcision of English boys: survey of trends in practice
- 30 September 2000
- Vol. 321 (7264), 792-793
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.321.7264.792
Abstract
The study was confined to medically indicated operative circumcisions. Statistics for circumcisions for the NHS, including diagnostic codings, were obtained for the Mersey region and its health districts for 1975-97 and for England for 1984-6 and 1990-8. Data for 1996-8 may slightly underestimate the number of procedures performed.3 Corresponding population figures were supplied by the Office for National Statistics. The catchment population of the Liverpool children's hospital has been taken as that of the Liverpool and Sefton health districts.Keywords
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