The false negative rate and the role for virtual review in a nationally evaluated glaucoma referral refinement scheme

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 577-581

  Ratnarajan, Gokulan ^a,b,c   Kean, Jane ^d   French, Karen ^d   Parker, Mike ^a   Bourne, Rupert ^a,d,e  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d HINCHINGBROOKE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

False negative rate; Glaucoma; Optometrists with specialist interest in glaucoma; Referral refinement; Virtual review

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPTOMETRY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIMETRY; STANDARDS; VISION TEST; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTOMETRY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84939771714     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/opo.12224     Document Type: Article

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