Recommendation for ophthalmic care in German preschool health examination and its adherence: Results of the prospective cohort study ikidS

• Alexander K. Schuster ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander K. Schuster, Heike M. Elflein

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

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6304-3599

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• Heike M. Elflein ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander K. Schuster, Heike M. Elflein

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Christiane Diefenbach,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Christine Gräf,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Jochem König,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Martina F. Schmidt,

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

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Kathleen Schnick-Vollmer,

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

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Michael S. Urschitz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: urschitz@uni-mainz.de

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• on behalf of the ikidS-Study Group

  ¶the complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments

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