Diabetic retinopathy screening in incident diabetes mellitus type 2 in Germany between 2004 and 2013 - A prospective cohort study based on health claims data

• Daniel Kreft,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Rostock Center for the Study of Demographic Change, Rostock, Germany, Empirical Methods in Social Sciences and Demography, Institute for Sociology and Demography, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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• Myra B. McGuinness,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, East Melbourne, Australia, Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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• Gabriele Doblhammer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriele Doblhammer, Robert P. Finger

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors.

  Affiliations Rostock Center for the Study of Demographic Change, Rostock, Germany, Empirical Methods in Social Sciences and Demography, Institute for Sociology and Demography, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

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• Robert P. Finger

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriele Doblhammer, Robert P. Finger

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Robert.finger@ukbonn.de

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors.

  Affiliation Ophthalmic Epidemiology, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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