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David Wright mentioned in an earlier post that the King’ s College London had extensive computerized data on IOP and glaucoma dating back to the 1970’s.  I can find the college web site but cannot find any of this data. Is any of this data available online?  If so, how can I get it?  If not, why not? Joe

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On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:51:06 -0400, "Joe Lockwood" <pi…@bellsouth.net> wrote: >David Wright mentioned in an earlier post that the King’ s College London >had extensive computerized data on IOP and glaucoma dating back to the >1970’s.  I can find the college web site but cannot find any of this data. >Is any of this data available online?  If so, how can I get it?  If not, why >not?

King’s College *Hospital*.  However, check this page:                 http://www.smd.kcl.ac.uk/iga/IGA_aims.htm Says the IGA was formed because that database wasn’t adequate.  I don’t know if it’s available anywhere outside the hospital, but I do know that when I read most of the significant papers in Glaucoma, in 1993, published in the previous 10 yr or so, I never ran across *any* reference to the King’s College Hospital or its purported glaucoma database.  It’s no doubt just an inhouse log of what MDs thought about and did there with glaucoma patients.  Probably not really analyzed and effectively organized for systematic therapy.  If not, let Mr. Information (DW) direct us to findings in that database that relate to the various points in posts to this NG in relationship to which he directed the posters thereof to this database. Ray

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I note that, since 1975, there have been only 17 journal writings listed in Medline that refer, somewhere in their text, to both glaucoma and King’s College Hospital.  The first one, at (if you’re signed up with Medscape) : http://www.medscape.com/server-java/MedPage?med75-79+27981+(‘king’s+c…) has an amusing abstract.  It seems KCH started their database on glaucoma because they claimed that the UK Dept. of Health and Social Security didn’t know what it was doing with glaucoma — in particular, apparently, as to screening — and that they claimed they could fix glaucoma if only it were caught in time.  Sounds like mostly overstuffed ego to me. Ray

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