Teaming-up nurses with ophthalmologists to expand the reach of eye care in a middle-income country: Validation of health data acquisition by nursing staff in a telemedicine strategy.

Teaming-up nurses with ophthalmologists to expand the reach of eye care in a middle-income country: Validation of health data acquisition by nursing staff in a telemedicine strategy.

Telemedicine can be used to conduct ophthalmological assessment of patients, facilitating patient access to specialist care. Since the teleophthalmology models require data collection support from other health professionals, the purpose of our study was to assess agreement between the nursing techni...

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Main Authors: Cassia Garcia Moraes Pagano, Tais de Campos Moreira, Daniel Sganzerla, Ana Maria Frölich Matzenbacher, Amanda Gomes Faria, Lucas Matturro, Felipe Cezar Cabral, Dimitris Rucks Varvaki Rados, Anelise Decavata Szortyka, Maicon Falavigna, Maria Eulalia Vinadé Chagas, Erno Harzheim, Marcelo Gonçalves, Roberto Umpierre, Aline Lutz de Araujo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260594

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260594

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