AIM To compare the diagnostic performance of accredited glaucoma optometrists (AGO) for both the diagnosis of glaucoma and the decision to treat with that of routine hospital eye care, against a reference standard of expert opinion (a consultant ophthalmologist with a special interest in glaucoma). METHODS A directly comparative, masked, performance study was undertaken in Grampian, Scotland....

Aims: To investigate the current referral pattern and delays in treatment of patients with primary uveal melanoma. Methods: 184 consecutive Finnish patients with uveal melanoma diagnosed between July 1994 and June 1999 were eligible, and 159 were enrolled (inclusion rate, 86%). Their mean age was 60 years (range 14–87). The dates of visits to dispensing optician, physician, ophthalmologist and ...

PURPOSE Diabetic patients with limited access to ophthalmologists have low screening rates for diabetic retinopathy. We evaluated a diabetic retinopathy screening program in a community health center using single images taken with a nonmydriatic retinal camera and primary care clinicians trained to read retinal images. METHODS This study was conducted from 2001 to 2004 in a multisite communit...

In the past, most ophthalmologists read or were told that treatment of the disorders affecting children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities fell outside the field of ophthalmology because the brain, and not the eyes, is the main organ active in the process of thinking and learning (Hartstein, 1971; Hartstein & Gable, 1984; Miller, 1988). Because dyslexia, for example, implied an inabi...