Assessing optometric care delivered by telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Background: The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) forced many eye care providers to implement telehealth services while in-person visits were reserved for essential and/or emergency eye care.

Objective: This study documents how an optometry group successfully implemented telehealth to care for patients during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Design: Retrospective, comparative case series.

Remote Screening for Optic Nerve Cupping Using Smartphone-based Nonmydriatic Fundus Photography.

Precis: Evaluation of nonmydriatic fundus photographs captured with a low-cost, smartphone-based camera facilitated remote screening of patients for enlarged optic nerve cup-to-disc ratio in the Independent Nation of Samoa, an underserved setting with one full-time ophthalmologist in the entire country.

Purpose: To investigate factors that impact inter-rater agreement of glaucoma suspect optic disc status using a low-cost, handheld nonmydriatic fundus camera.

Methods: Color fundus photographs were obtained using the PanOptic iExaminer attached to an iPhone 6S by a lay examiner on 206 participants in the Independent Nation of Samoa.

Dark Adaptation Survey as a Predictive Tool for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma.

Purpose: To study the extent to which patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) have subjective difficulties with dark (DA) adaptation and vision under low-luminance conditions and to correlate the reported difficulties with severity of disease, specifically visual field loss.

Design: Prospective, comparative case series.

Participants: Two hundred twenty patients with and without POAG who sought treatment at an outpatient subspecialty glaucoma clinic between October 2016 and September 2018.