Use of personalised risk-based screening schedules to optimise workload and sojourn time in screening programmes for diabetic retinopathy: A retrospective cohort study.

Use of personalised risk-based screening schedules to optimise workload and sojourn time in screening programmes for diabetic retinopathy: A retrospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND:National guidelines in most countries set screening intervals for diabetic retinopathy (DR) that are insufficiently informed by contemporary incidence rates. This has unspecified implications for interval disease risks (IDs) of referable DR, disparities in ID between groups or individuals...

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Main Authors: Andreas Ochs, Stuart McGurnaghan, Mike W Black, Graham P Leese, Sam Philip, Naveed Sattar, Caroline Styles, Sarah H Wild, Paul M McKeigue, Helen M Colhoun, Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group and the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Collaborative
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-10-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002945

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