Measuring follow-up time in routinely-collected health datasets: Challenges and solutions

• Daniel Thayer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: d.s.thayer@swansea.ac.uk

  Affiliation SAIL Databank, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-4362

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• Arfon Rees,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation SAIL Databank, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom

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• Jon Kennedy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom

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• Huw Collins,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SAIL Databank, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom

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• Dan Harris,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea, United Kingdom

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• Julian Halcox,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea, United Kingdom

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• Luca Ruschetti,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation SAIL Databank, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom

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• Richard Noyce,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SAIL Databank, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom

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• Caroline Brooks

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SAIL Databank, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom

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