Primary health eye care: evaluation of the competence of medical students in performing fundoscopy with the direct ophthalmoscopedoi:10.1080/20786204.2010.10874003JS Van VeldenC CookDu Toit NL MyerTaylor & FrancisVerma L, Prakash G, Tewari HK, Screening for diabetic retinopathy by non-...
The correct diagnosis could be made in only 57% of cases. Conclusion: Medical students at the University of Cape Town need more than the current one week of practical ophthalmology training to improve their fundoscopy skills. 展开 关键词: Primary health eye care ...
This week's Eye on Health is focusing on primary care doctors. It is estimated that 100 million Americans do not have a relationship with a primary care doctor.
Visual impairment is a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, affecting nearly 5% of the population. Efforts to combat avoidable causes have been hampered by weak health systems and little evidence exists to suggest what interventions may be effect
While the primary endpoint in both studies was non-inferiority to Eylea, there were greater reductions versus Eylea on secondary measures including central subfield thickness (CSFT) and in number of eyes with intraretinal fluid and/or subretinal fluid (IRF/SRF). Filings in US, Europe Novartis had...
A common form is primary open angleglaucoma. Most people who have it don’t have early symptoms or pain. So it's important to keep up with your regulareye exams. It doesn’t happen often, but glaucoma can be caused by: An injury to the eye ...
(dynamic stimuli) is a distinct visual function that depends on neural mechanisms outside the primary visual cortex [35,36]. Thus, we assume that patients in our study showed greater EM activity in DT due to the brain’s undisturbed processing of moving stimuli. Furthermore, the literature ...
Table 3. European–American criteria (ACR/EULAR) proposed in 2016 for the classification of primary SS. 1.6. Measurement of Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMP-9) In recent years the technology has allowed clinical ophthalmologists, and other healthcare staff to measure MMP-9 levels in the tear film...
When you fill out your health history form, you should be just as detailed as you would be for your primary physician. Some things that may seem less obvious to tell your eye doctor about include: Your currentand pastprescription medications ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging field which could make an intelligent healthcare model a reality and has been garnering traction in the field of medicine, with promising results. There have been recent developments in machine learning and/or