Publications by authors named "Ogunro A"
Background: Ghana implemented the District Health Information Management System 2 (DHIMS2) in 2012 for aggregate health data management. Later, e-Tracker instances were introduced in response to demand from funders and program implementers for patient-level longitudinal data visibility, and improved patient care and data quality. Digital transactional data capture (electronically recording and storing data generated at the point of service) in health facilities enables real-time data entry and retrieval and has improved data quality, patient care continuity, and health outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrcis: Patients' acceptance of glaucoma therapy was high overall in this study, but lower for surgery than for laser or medical therapy. Fear and cost were the leading reasons why patients declined recommended therapy and they were treatment-specific. Cost was the primary reason for declining medical and laser therapy, while fear was the most common reason for declining surgical therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrcis: Physicians were most likely to recommend primary medical therapy upon diagnosis of glaucoma. Laser therapy was underutilized where they were available. Physicians were more likely to recommend surgery in severe glaucoma, laser therapy in mild glaucoma, while recommendation of medical therapy did not depend on glaucoma severity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: To objectively measure visual function amongst Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG) patients and compare these with age and sex-matched controls by describing the characteristics of visual function in relation to the severity of POAG.
Methodology: A case-control study was carried out among 106 POAG patients and an equal number of age-sex matched controls attending Asokoro District Hospital, Abuja, and Eye Foundation Hospital Abuja from Nov 2012 to April 2013. The objective measures of visual function assessed include visual acuity (VA), contrast sensitivity (CS), colour vision (CV), and visual fields (MD) in the better eye (BE)].
Background: This study aims to correlate quality of life measures with visual function parameters and to determine the visual function parameters that independently affect the quality of Life in primary open angle glaucoma patients (POAG) in Abuja.
Methodology: A cross sectional study carried out among 106 POAG patients attending Asokoro District Hospital, Abuja and Eye Foundation Hospital Abuja from Nov 2012 to April 2013. National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire 25 (NEIVFQ25) and Glaucoma Symptom Scale (GSS) were used to assess Quality of Life (QoL) after biodata was obtained.
Background: The accurate measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP) is a fundamental basic examination in daily ophthalmic practice and is important in managing many ophthalmic diseases and conditions such as glaucoma, uveitis, and following trauma. Accurate measurement of IOP is particularly important in glaucoma because the intraocular pressure is the most important modifiable risk factor in its management.
Aim: To compare intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements obtained with the Goldmann applanation (GAT) tonometer to intraocular pressure measurements obtained with the iCare rebound tonometer (RBT) and evaluate the suitability of the iCare tonometer for routine clinical use among adult patients attending a glaucoma clinic in Southwest, Nigeria.
Prcis: The initial presentation of glaucoma varies meaningfully across SSA. A comprehensive strategy with regional customization based on local differences is needed to reduce glaucoma blindness in SSA.
Purpose: To explore regional variations in the presentation of newly diagnosed glaucoma in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA).
Trends in glaucoma procedures and surgeries at the eye foundation hospital group, Nigeria.
Niger J Clin Pract
November 2019
Aims: To review the trends in glaucoma procedural treatments from January 2009 to December 2017.
Methodology: A retrospective search was carried out from the operating theater and laser room records of the Eye Foundation Hospitals in Lagos, Abuja, and Ijebu-Imushin. Consecutive glaucoma procedures for each year from January 2009 to December 2017 were recorded in the data sheet prepared for the study.
Objective: To determine the common indications for, and outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy surgery among black Africans in a low-resource setting.
Methods And Analysis: A retrospective, non-comparative case review was undertaken. Data from 1000 consecutive eyes of 1000 patients in a single centre who underwent pars plana vitrectomy surgery between May 2005 and July 2013 were used for the study.
Aim: To review the short-term visual outcome of phacoemulsification in adults with uncomplicated cataracts in Eye Foundation Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.
Materials And Methods: A retrospective review of records of patients that had phacoemulsification between January 2012 and December 2013 in Eye Foundation Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, was done. Preoperative visual acuity, refractive aim, intraoperative complications, postoperative unaided, and best-corrected visual acuity at 1 and 3 months were analyzed.
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare intraocular pressure (IOP) measured with the Tono-Pen® to that measured using the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT) in patients with primary open angle glaucoma attending a glaucoma clinic.
Subjects And Methods: A comparative clinic-based observational study was conducted involving 75 patients (39 men and 36 women) attending a glaucoma clinic in Southwest Nigeria. A pretested structured questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic data.
Background: There is a dearth of information on postoperative eye infections in Nigeria and most hospitals do not have an infection control program in place.
Objective: This study was done to investigate the incidence of post-operative eye infections, their potential sources and the preparedness of the hospital to prevent such infections.
Methods: A microbiological survey of all eye surgical procedures between March 2004 and May 2005 was performed.
Objectives: To determine the rates of psychoactive substance use before and during imprisonment among a sample of prisoners and the factors that are associated with current drug use among them.
Methods: All the inmates of Ilesa medium security prison, who gave informed consent to participate, were interviewed with a questionnaire detailing socio-demographic, drug-use and imprisonment-related information.
Results: Majority of the prisoners were young adults.
Objectives: To evaluate the demographic and psychosocial characteristics of incarcerated offenders in a Nigerian prison and investigate their relationship with psychiatric morbidity.
Design: A cross-sectional study employing the 30 - item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30) and the depression sub-scale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS-Depression).
Setting: A medium security prison located in Ilesa, a semi-urban community in Southwestern Nigeria.
Types of Glaucoma and recent trends applied in treatment: Observations from a Glaucoma Training Workshop in the Gambia.
Niger Postgrad Med J
September 2005
Objectives: To determine types of glaucoma seen and the recent trends applied in treatment, a retrospective non-comparative case-series study was conducted in the Eye Unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Banjul, The Gambia.
Methods: The records of the 88 patients(145 eyes) seen during the glaucoma training workshop(organised by Prof.James Standefer, a clinical ophthalmologist from Minneapolis, U.