Of the three projects, only LongROAD collects longitudinal medical record data, and detailed data on medication use, use and perceptions of advanced technologies and vehicle maintenance, reasons for driving cessation, and health and mobility consequences after driving cessation.
Data on medication use, comorbidity, and survival were obtained from medical databases.
Data on medication use, demographics, hospital diagnoses, and comorbidity were obtained from medical databases.
Data on medication and risk factors were registered by the attending physician based upon the medical files.
"Diabetes is all about managing your data – on medication, food and blood glucose," says Omer. "Current tools are not up to the job and I struggle to keep up.
Because the data on medication prevalence use was limited, some assumptions needed to be made.
The data on medication use and health care utilisation are based on self-reports and therefore open to recall bias.
This study was not designed to provide data on medication overuse in the general population; therefore, these data is not available.
Exclusion criteria were: headache as the sole pain symptom; incomplete examination (defined as examination by less than 3 specialists) and missing data on medication intake.
Our data on medication use and health care utilisation are based on self-reports and therefore open to recall bias, although there is no reason to suspect systematic bias.
Since data on medication dose were not collected as part of the internet survey, all medication costs were estimated using daily dose assumptions based on the expert clinical opinion of the study authors who are also physicians.
