Journal of medical screening

The most recent articles from: J Med Screen January 1997

J Med Screen · Jan 1997

Screening for diabetic retinopathy in primary care: retinal photography alone can be used efficiently and effectively to exclude those with sight threatening lesions.

Good screening performance of retinal photography and ophthalmoscopy together in screening for diabetic retinopathy in primary care have been reported. This study reanalysed the data to evaluate the screening performance of photography alone. ⋯ Good quality fundal photographs alone seem specific enough to screen for sight threatening diabetic retinopathy, but will underdetect background retinopathy.

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