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Optometrist-led vision screening: Enhancing child eye health in underserved district schools within Karachi [PDF]

SAGE Open Medicine
Background: Vision impairment among school-aged children, from uncorrected refractive errors, represents a major public health concern. In Pakistan, organized school-based vision screening programs are limited, and there is insufficient evidence ...
Saima Jamil, Hamza Inayat, Sana Hyat, Karim F. Damji   +3 more
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Human resources and infrastructure for ophthalmic services in India: Results from the National Survey [PDF]

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
Purpose: The current study was performed to determine the human resources (HR) and infrastructure available for providing ophthalmic services from the existing secondary and tertiary level hospitals in India and to assess the achievement of targets ...
Praveen Vashist, Souvik Manna, Vivek Gupta, Noopur Gupta, Rohit Saxena, Surbhi Agrawal, Amit Bhardwaj, Suraj Singh Senjam, Namrata Sharma, Radhika Tandon   +9 more
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Global mapping of optometry workforce

African Vision and Eye Health, 2023
Background: Vision impairment is a growing global burden issue, and appropriately trained optometrists are essential for its management. However, there is a shortage of optometrists worldwide, which hampers eye care planning.
Kovin S. Naidoo, Pirindhavellie Govender-Poonsamy, Priya Morjaria, Sandra Block, Ving F. Chan, Ai Chee Yong, Luigi Bilotto   +6 more
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The perceived role and relevance of South African optometric professional and regulatory bodies

African Vision and Eye Health, 2022
Background: Healthcare professions in South Africa are regulated through legislative bodies such as the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) towards the protection of the public.
Simon A. Maluleke, Vanessa R. Moodley
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Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice of glaucoma among different cadres of optometrists

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022
Purpose: To assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and clinical practice of glaucoma among optometry students and optometry practitioners with different years of clinical experience and academic background.
Sowmya Saravanan, Kalpa Negiloni, Rashima Asokan   +2 more
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Patients’ attitudes and beliefs to presbyopia and its correction [PDF]

, 2021
Objective Presbyopia is the gradual inability to focus near objects with age. This study explores patients’ attitudes and beliefs towards presbyopia including preferred modes of near refractive correction.
Huntjens, B., Hutchins, B.
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Danish teleophthalmology platform reduces optometry referrals into the national eye care system

BMJ Open Ophthalmology, 2021
Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the stratification of follow-up and referral pathways after implementation of a systematic cloud-based electronic-referral teleophthalmological service for optometry-initiated ocular posterior segment ...
Danson Vasanthan Muttuvelu, Heidi Buchholt, Mads Nygaard, Marie Louise Roed Rasmussen, Dawn Sim   +4 more
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Motivation for postgraduate studies by nonacademic optometrists: A case study at a South African university

Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2022
Background: An increasing number of optometrists who are nonacademics are pursuing postgraduate studies, despite such qualifications traditionally being more relevant to an academic rather than a clinical setting.
Rekha Hansraj, Nishanee Rampersad
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Self-reported knowledge and skills related to diagnosis and management of keratoconus among public sector optometrists in the Limpopo province, South Africa

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2022
Background: Keratoconus (KC) has been regarded as a rare condition, although recent studies, including those in South Africa, suggest it is common and is increasing in prevalence.
Pheagane M. Nkoana, Vanessa R. Moodley, Khathutshelo P. Mashige   +2 more
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Feeling the pressure: a cross-sectional study exploring feasibility of a healthcare Pop-Up for intraocular pressure measurements in shopping centres in England [PDF]

, 2019
OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that a shopping centre Pop-Up health check combining an intraocular pressure (IOP) check with a general health check (blood pressure (BP)) is more readily accepted by the general public than an IOP check only.
Campbell, P., Crabb, D. P., Edgar, D. F, Edwards, L. A., Shah, R., Taylor, D. J.   +5 more
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