Assessing the unmet need for diabetic eye screening in regional Queensland
Alexander Bremner
A * , David Squirrell A and Brett Sillars B
A
B
Abstract
Patients continue to self-present to ophthalmology with advanced diabetic retinopathy. An audit of people living with diabetes attending our regional diabetes clinic revealed a significant number had undetected vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy despite regular community optometry review. Further work is required to determine why and whether this is a more widespread issue.
Keywords: advanced diabetic eye disease, audit and quality assurance, diabetic eye screening program, diabetic retinopathy, ophthalmology, regional, retinal imaging, telemedicine, vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy.
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