CALON used linked patient records from different sources to obtain evidence about how well cardiac ablation procedures work, and how safe they are. This pilot project also investigated the usefulness of data linkage as a method of research for the NICE Interventional Procedures programme. Patient details were anonymised to protect identities, and stored in the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank.
Cedar’s reports from the CALON project can be found HERE and HERE.