CHALLENGES AND FACILITATORS TO THE SECONDARY USE OF ROUTINELY COLLECTED ORAL HEALTH DATA FROM MULTIPLE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

This research aimed to identify and explore perceived challenges facilitators acquiring routinely collected oral healthcare data for in six European countries with the aim of generating practical solutions future initiatives. Seventeen participants from UK, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland Netherlands participated who were either requestors or providers ADVOCATE project. Focus groups using nominal group technique undertaken PESTLE as a theoretical framework guide discussion. The analysed content analysis. Four main identified: 1) legality rules influencing available, 2) variations standardisation/coding between countries, 3) relationships responsibilities stakeholders, 4) not available secondary use. included: having place process, strong technical elements support taking pragmatic approach data. It is hoped that identifying these will raise awareness potential issues undertaking such tackling building on establish stronger foundations sharing within across disciplines countries.