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Quality of care provided to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Tshwane, South Africa [PDF]
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family MedicineBackground: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is a public health challenge, affecting 90% of all patients with diabetes, globally. Compliance to treatment guidelines among healthcare professionals (HCPs) is low, thus resulting in inadequate quality of ...
Ntlogeleng M. Mogale +3 more
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Eyesi direct ophthalmoscope simulator: an effective training tool for medical undergraduates [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationIntroduction Non-ophthalmologists often lack sufficient operational training to use a direct ophthalmoscope proficiently, resulting in a global deficit of basic ophthalmological skills among general practitioners.
Canying Liu +8 more
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The effectiveness of smartphone ophthalmoscope compared to direct ophthalmoscope as a teaching tool
The Asia Pacific Scholar, 2022 Introduction: The direct ophthalmoscope is a standard tool for fundus examination but is underutilised in practice due to technical difficulties. Although the smartphone ophthalmoscope has been demonstrated to improve fundus abnormality detection, there ...
Amelah Abdul Qader +2 more
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Application of Adaptive Optics in Ophthalmology
Photonics, 2022 The eye, the photoreceptive organ used to perceive the external environment, is of great importance to humans. It has been proven that some diseases in humans are accompanied by fundus changes; therefore, the health status of people may be interpreted ...
Lixin Liu +6 more
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Relationship between diabetes mellitus and cataract in Hungary [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020 AIM: To examine the coexistence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and cataract in Hungary. The effects of DM on the cataract surgical results were also in the focus of analysis.
Anita Pék +7 more
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Fundus Autofluorescence and Clinical Applications
Journal of Ophthalmic & Vision Research, 2021 Fundus autofluorescence (FAF) has allowed in vivo mapping of retinal metabolic derangements and structural changes not possible with conventional color imaging.
Cameron Pole, Hossein Ameri
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Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2023 Introduction: Diabetic retinopathy is a specific microvascular ocular complication associated with diabetes. However, retinopathy has also been reported in people with prediabetes. The study aimed to find out the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy among
Arjun Shrestha +5 more
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Emulated retinal image capture (ERICA) to test, train and validate processing of retinal images
Scientific Reports, 2021 High resolution retinal imaging systems, such as adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopes (AOSLO), are increasingly being used for clinical research and fundamental studies in neuroscience.
Laura K. Young, Hannah E. Smithson
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Smartphone Compatible versus Conventional Ophthalmoscope: A Randomized Crossover Educational Trial
Journal of Academic Ophthalmology, 2021 Objective The aim of the study is to compare performance and ease-of-use (EOU) of optic disk assessment using a smartphone direct ophthalmoscope attachment (D-EYE) to the gold standard direct ophthalmoscope (DO).
Rachel Curtis +6 more
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The Arclight Ophthalmoscope: A Reliable Low-Cost Alternative to the Standard Direct Ophthalmoscope
Journal of Ophthalmology, 2015 Background. The Arclight ophthalmoscope is a low-cost alternative to standard direct ophthalmoscopes. This study compared the Arclight ophthalmoscope with the Heine K180 direct ophthalmoscope to evaluate its reliability in assessing the vertical cup disc
James Lowe +6 more
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