Diabetic eye screening - where are we now and what does the future hold?Cushley, LauraPeto, TundeOptometry in Practice
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of preventable blindness and has emerged as a global health challenge, necessitating the development of robust management strategies. As DR prevalence continues to rise, advancements in screening methods have become increasingly critical for timely detection an...
IRIS retinal screening software makes it easy for healthcare providers to prioritize diabetic eye care with a cloud-based, camera-agnostic solution.
Depending on the results, patients areeither recalled for annual screening, invited back for more frequent surveillance or referred on to hospital eye services. During 2011-12, NDESP invited 2,362,000 people inEngland for screening and 1,911,000 of these attended4 -an overall uptake rate of ...
A research team from Great Britain identified factors, such as mental health issues, lack of diabetic eye screening awareness, and transport difficulties, that interfere with attendance at annual screenings by patients with diabetes and evaluated the adherence to guidelines set by the National Instit...
In: Wolff’s anatomy of the eye. Chapman & Hall, London, p 488 Google Scholar Brown JC, Solomon SD, Bressler SB, Schachat AP, DiBernardo C, Bressler NM (2004) Detection of diabetic foveal edema. Contact lens biomicroscopy compared with optical coherence tomography. Arch Ophthalmol 122:...
In 67% (n=83), patients could be referred directly to screening programs; the remainder relied on primary care for onward referral. 97% (n=120) considered eye screening results useful for counselling patients but only 65% (n=81) reported it was 'easy' to obtain them. Factors independently...
5. None of the above options will ensure eye screening for young defaulters with insulin-dependent diabetes, estranged or alienated from all medical care, whose only regular contact is for renewal of insulin pre scriptions. This group presents late and yields an annual toll of preventable ...
They also emphasize, "The incentive of biennial screening is to release capacity in the NHS and lessen the inconvenience for [people with diabetes] at low risk ofsight lossof attending eye screening appointments every year, but there is a need to address the potential to amplify ethnic and age...
A total of 510 consenting diabetic patients attending a hospital-based photographic screening clinic were recruited over a 2-year period. Exclusion criteria included visual acuity of worse than 6/9, previous photocoagulation, and a history of previous eye disease known to affect color vision. The ...