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Pharmaceutical Prescribing Privileges for Optometrists to Combat Childhood Myopia in Singapore: Public Health Policy Review and Analysis.
Children (Basel)
December 2024
Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Singapore's national myopia prevention efforts have largely focused on school vision screening and public education on outdoor activities in the past two decades. Given the emergence of evidence-based myopia interventions, this policy review and analysis investigates the potential benefits and drawbacks of optometrist prescribing privileges as it has been proposed to reduce the barriers to access effective interventions, such as combined therapy (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChanging trends in postoperative cataract care: impact of electronic patient records in optometrist-delivered shared care.
Ir J Med Sci
May 2018
Department of Ophthalmology, Sligo University Hospital, Sligo, Ireland.
Background: This study evaluates a community optometrist-delivered postoperative care scheme in patients discharged from the hospital ophthalmology department following uncomplicated cataract surgery.
Aim: The aim of this study is to assess the efficacy of electronic patient records (EPR) in facilitating co-managed cataract care.
Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained Medisoft EPR database of postoperative cataract review data at a single centre, Sligo University Hospital (SUH), which serves a large and predominantly rural catchment area.
Current optometric practices and attitudes in keratoconus patient management.
Cont Lens Anterior Eye
August 2017
Universidad de Valladolid, Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Paseo de Belén, 7 - Campus Miguel Delibes, 47011 Valladolid, Spain; Universidad de Valladolid, Instituto Universitario de Oftalmobiología Aplicada (IOBA), Paseo de Belén, 17 - Campus Miguel Delibes, 47011 VALLADOLID, Spain; Optometry Research Group, IOBA Eye Institute, School of Optometry, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain; Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Plymouth University, Derriford Road, PL6 8BH Plymouth, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
Purpose: To compare the current optometric practices and attitudes in the management of keratoconus patients in the UK and Spain.
Methods: An online survey (adapted to optometric practices) was distributed via a newsletter emailed by various professional organizations in the UK and Spain.
Results: Four hundred and sixty-four practitioners (126 in the UK; 338 in Spain) who prescribed gas permeable GP contact lenses (CLs) more than once per month (54.
Therapeutic treatment of keratoconus: a survey of local optometric practice criteria.
Clin Exp Optom
July 2015
Vision Eye Institute Chatswood, NSW, Australia.
Background: Defining the threshold for therapeutic and surgical intervention in patients with keratoconus presents a considerable challenge given the lack of clear, evidence-based data. Little is known about the patterns of practice and referral criteria of optometrists within Australia.
Methods: All members of the NSW branch of Optometrist Association Australia were invited to complete an online survey in January 2013.
Agreement in dry eye management between optometrists and general practitioners in primary health care in the Netherlands.
Cont Lens Anterior Eye
August 2015
Cardiff University, School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff, UK.
Purpose: To investigate the agreement in dry eye care management between general practitioners (GPs) and optometrists in the Netherlands.
Methods: A web-based survey was used to investigate the agreement in symptoms associated with dry eye, causes of developing dry eye, and investigative techniques used in practice, between GPs and optometrists. Additional questions surveyed knowledge of the latest research, and co-management of dry eye disease in primary healthcare.
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