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Ensuring patient safety in eye care

Kerala Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022
Due to the frequent and rapid development of new drugs, changes in treatment protocols and patient care delivery systems including technology, patient care in health care settings is becoming increasingly complex.
R D Ravindran
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Comprehensive eye care - Issues, challenges, and way forward

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020
As we move from a disease-specific care model toward comprehensive eye care (CEC), there is a need for a more holistic and integrated approach involving the health system.
M. V. Cicinelli, Srinivas Marmamula, R. Khanna   +2 more
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Mixed methods evaluation of a primary eye care training programme for primary health workers in Morogoro Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: There are 285 million people with visual impairment (VI) worldwide including 39 million who are blind; 15 % of those with VI live in Africa, and around 80 % of VI is preventable or treatable with the right equipment, information and skills ...
Gilbert, Clare Elizabeth, Hunter, Joanna, Jolley, Emma, Mafwiri, Milka Madaha, Schmidt, Elena   +4 more
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Early impact of COVID-19 outbreak on eye care: Insights from EUROCOVCAT group

European Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020
The recent outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared a public health emergency worldwide. The scientific community has put in much effort and published studies that described COVID-19’s biology, transmission, clinical diagnosis ...
M. Toro, A. Brézin, M. Burdon, A. Cummings, Ozlem Evren Kemer, B. Malyugin, I. Prieto, M. Teus, D. Tognetto, Riikka Törnblom, C. Posarelli, Tomasz Choragiewicz, R. Rejdak   +12 more
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Taking the right measures to control COVID-19 in ophthalmology: the experience of a tertiary eye care referral center in Italy

Eye, 2020
A rapidly increasing number of people has been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) [1].
E. Borrelli, R. Sacconi, L. Querques, I. Zucchiatti, F. Prascina, F. Bandello, G. Querques   +6 more
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Eye care service utilization and associated factors among older adults in Hawassa city, South Ethiopia

PLoS ONE, 2020
Purpose The study aimed to assess the proportion of eye care service utilization and associated factors among older adults age ≥ 40 years in Hawassa city, South Ethiopia, June 2019.
Efa Derecha Morka, Betelhem Temesgen Yibekal, Mebratu Mulusew Tegegne   +2 more
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Android mobile applications in eye care

Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019
Google Play Store was used to search for eye care-related applications the android simulator using various general terms related to eye care to review and categorize various interactive eye care-related applications in android platform from the details ...
Siddharth Karuppasamy Karthikeyan, Rajesh Thangarajan, Nagarajan Theruvedhi, Krithica Srinivasan   +3 more
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Advocacy for eye care

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012
The effectiveness of eye care service delivery is often dependant on how the different stakeholders are aligned. These stakeholders range from the ministries of health who have the capacity to grant government subsidies for eye care, down to the primary healthcare workers who can be enrolled to screen for basic eye diseases. Advocacy is a tool that can
Thulasiraj D Ravilla, Dhivya Ramasamy
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Strengthening the integration of eye care into the health system: methodology for the development of the WHO package of eye care interventions

BMJ Open Ophthalmology, 2020
Objective To describe the rational for, and the methods that will be employed to develop, the WHO package of eye care interventions (PECI). Methods and analysis The development of the package will be conducted in four steps: (1) selection of eye ...
S. Keel, J. Evans, S. Block, R. Bourne, M. Calonge, Ching-Yu Cheng, D. Friedman, J. Furtado, R. Khanna, Wanjiku Mathenge, S. Mariotti, Elenoa Matoto, A. Müller, M. Rabiu, T. Rasengane, Jialang Zhao, R. Wormald, A. Cieza   +17 more
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DELP Treatment on Vision and Retinal Microcirculation in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: Report of Five Cases and Literature Review

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The delipid extracorporeal lipoprotein filter from plasma (DELP) treatment can effectively reduce blood lipid, increase blood flow, and improve neurological deficits in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). However, its effect on vision and retinal microcirculation in stroke patients has never been reported.
Ning Li, Ronghua Hong, Hua You, Feiping Xu, Qingjun Zhang, Yiwen Lin, Yuting Su, Danmei Lan, Lingjing Jin, Junhui She   +9 more
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