Inferring glaucoma status from prescriptions, diagnoses, and operations data: A Danish nationwide study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess a new method for inferring glaucoma status using prescriptions data.

Methods

The study population comprised all individuals living in Denmark in the period 1995 to 2018 and included 6,930,571 individuals. We used information from The National Prescription Registry on claimed prescriptions as the basis for our study (N = 223,592). We inferred glaucoma status using data on claimed prescriptions, in-hospital ICD-10 diagnoses, and in-hospital glaucoma surgeries. We infer glaucoma status in three ways using the prescription pattern: glaucoma inferred by (i) the use of a first claimed prescription, (ii) the use of a second claimed prescription with a gap of at least 90 days, and (iii) the use of a third claimed prescription for glaucoma medication, again with a g

SUBMITTER: Horwitz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10699638 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature