Is it safe to discharge treated proliferative diabetic retinopathy patients from the hospital eye service to a community screening programme?

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 696-700

  Negretti, G S ^a   Vafidis, G C ^a  

^a CENTRAL MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE CARE; EYE DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER COAGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; PATIENT SAFETY; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84928767936     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2014.48     Document Type: Article

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