Novel linkage approach to join community-acquired and national data

Background Community optometrists in Scotland have performed regular free-at-point-of-care eye examinations for all, for over 15 years. Eye examinations include retinal imaging but image storage is fragmented and they are not used for research. The Scottish Collaborative Optometry-Ophthalmology Netw...

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Published in:	BMC medical research methodology Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 13 - 8
Main Authors:	Tochel, Claire, Pead, Emma, McTrusty, Alice, Buckmaster, Fiona, MacGillivray, Tom, Tatham, Andrew J., Strang, Niall C., Dhillon, Baljean, Bernabeu, Miguel O.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 17.01.2024 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Cameras Community optometry Data Collection Data linkage Data mining Datasets Diagnostic imaging Disease Early disease detection Eye examinations Health Sciences Humans Image analysis Longitudinal data Medical Record Linkage Medical Records Medical Records Systems, Computerized Medical research Medicine Medicine & Public Health Medicine, Experimental Methods Ophthalmology Optometry Patients Phonics Primary care Scotland Statistical Theory and Methods Statistics for Life Sciences Theory of Medicine/Bioethics Scotland United Kingdom > UK Early disease detection Image analysis Community optometry Longitudinal data Data linkage
ISSN:	1471-2288, 1471-2288
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