se of telemedicine and artificial intelligence to improve the way patients are referred from community optometrists to hospital eye units
- Conditions
- Retino-choroidal diseaseEye 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
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)
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
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method