Screening intervals for diabetic retinopathy

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Diabetic Retinopathy; Diabetic retinopathy; Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

• Registration Number: ISRCTN62748772
• Lead Sponsor: Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-04-12
• Last Update Posted: 20 February 2017

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24000

Inclusion Criteria

1. Participants over the age of 12 years
2. Diagnosed with diabetes and have attended a diabetic retinopathy screening programme in one of the study areas of Gloucestershire, Coventry and Warwickshire, South London and Nottingham.
3. Have been sent the required information about transfer of risk factor data as advised by the Department of Health funded GP2DRS (?General Practice to Diabetic Retinopathy Screening?) Project and they would have been given the opportunity to inform their General Practice or Screening Programme that they did not want their risk factor data transferred.
4. The participants in this study are pseudoanonymised data on those people who have attended for screening and risk factor data has been transferred according to the recommended guidelines of the GP2DRS project.

Exclusion Criteria

1. People with diabetes under 12 years
2. Those who have not attended for screening
3. Those people who have indicated that they do not want their risk factor data transferred to the screening services.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified