Being by the water just isn't enough :(

[Andrew MacLean]

(Back to Sweet's Question)

ooled data would be a positive advantage to people who move a lot, expecially if their local Ophthalmology Dept is sees only a few KC patients. They would know at the click of a mouse just eacactly how comon was (say) epithelial rejection. they might also have immediate access to best practice in treating such a thing.

Gareth is right, data is not 'name', so the identity of particular patients would be protected. the new hospital would have the individual patient's history in their notes, and access to a wider experience than they could muster 'in house'.

Andrew

[Sweet]

Hhmm ok. I didn't think it went on names but to be honest i didn't really think it went on hospital numbers either. This is only because any research the hospital i work in does is all numbered by the number of patients used and all personal details including hospital numbers are deleted. So in that case a patient could easily represent a few times but as it is all 'in house' and used for the hospital only i guess it wouldn't really matter.

Sweet X x X

[GarethB]

That is why I think patient number should be included as part of the data collected so an outside body can do the analysis and remove the duplications so aid error reduction.