Issues regarding quality assurance in the English national screening programme for sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy: Response to paper by C. Arun et al., 'Establishing ongoing quality assurance in a retinal screening programme' [1]

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 688-690

  Garvican, L ^a  

^a National Quality Assurance Lead   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOMICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; LETTER; PATIENT REFERRAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCREENING; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY;

DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ENGLAND; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION SCREENING;

EID: 34249319097     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2007.02154_1.x     Document Type: Letter

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