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se of telemedicine and artificial intelligence to improve the way patients are referred from community optometrists to hospital eye units

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Retino-choroidal disease
Eye Diseases
Registration Number
ISRCTN18106677
Lead Sponsor
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Brief Summary

2024 Other publications in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38803257/ Qualitative interview study with patients and clinicians (added 28/05/2024)

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
340
Inclusion Criteria

Current inclusion criteria as of 22/11/2021:
1. Adult ( aged =18 years) attending the involved community optometry practices who underwent an OCT scan
2. People who at the opinion of the community optometrist have any suspicion of a retinal condition (including dry AMD, wet AMD, diabetic retinopathy, macular oedema, macular holes, epiretinal membranes, central serous chorio-retinopathy, genetic eye disease)
3. Macular OCT scan performed at community optometry

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Previous inclusion criteria:
1. People attending the involved community optometry practices who underwent an OCT
2. People who at the opinion of the community optometrist have any suspicion of a retinal condition (including dry AMD, wet AMD, diabetic retinopathy, macular oedema, macular holes, epiretinal membranes, central serous chorio-retinopathy, genetic eye disease)
3. Macular OCT scan performed using either Topcon 3D OCT-2000 or Heidelberg OCT1 device (performed with Heidelberg ‘dense’ acquisition settings)

Exclusion Criteria

1. People with any non-retinal ocular co-morbidities in either eye other than cataract
2. People with media opacities, inability to position or fixate or any other reason that prevents acquisition of good quality OCT scans (at the discretion of the community optometrist)

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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