Incidence of retinal artery occlusion in Germany.

Retinal artery occlusion (RAO) is a rare and severe disease potentially causing blindness. Data from the health insurance AOK Baden-Württemberg in Germany in 2016. gl Using health claims data comes with several limitations including misclassification and under/over-reporting. In summary, we report incidence of RAO in Germany for the first time using health claims data and found it to be slightly higher than the data for the US (Leavitt et al.). [Extracted from the article]