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Patients views on a new surveillance pathway involving allied non-medical staff for people with treated diabetic macular oedema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy
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EMERALD Study Group (Including: Prior, Lindsay and Lois, Noemi). (2023) Patients views on a new surveillance pathway involving allied non-medical staff for people with treated diabetic macular oedema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Eye, 37 . pp. 1155-1159. doi:10.1038/s41433-022-02050-1 ISSN 0950-222X.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-022-02050-1
Abstract
Background/Objective
To explore acceptability by patients and health care professionals of a new surveillance pathway for people with previously treated and stable diabetic macular oedema (DMO) and/or proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).
Subject/Methods
Structured discussions in 10 focus groups with patients; two with ophthalmic photographers/graders, and one with ophthalmologists, held across the UK as part of a large diagnostic accuracy study (EMERALD).
Results
The most prominent issues raised by patients concerned (i) expertise of the various professionals within clinic, (ii) quality of interactions with clinic professionals, especially the flow of information from professionals to patients, and (iii) wish to be treated holistically. Ophthalmologists suggested such issues could be best dealt with via a programme of patient education and tended to overlook deeper implications of patient concerns for the organisation of services.
Conclusion
For patients, the clinical service should not only include the identification and treatment of disease but also exchange of information, reassurance, and mitigation of anxiety. Alterations in the standard care pathway need to take account of such concerns and their implications, in addition to any assessments of ‘efficiency’ that may flow from changes in diagnostic technology, or the division of professional labour.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RE Ophthalmology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Diabetes -- Complications, Medical telematics, Patient monitoring, Ophthalmology | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Eye | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0950-222X | ||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2023 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 37 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 5 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1155-1159 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/s41433-022-02050-1 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 June 2022 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 June 2022 | ||||||||||
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