Transformational change: nurses substituting for ophthalmologists for intravitreal injections – a quality-improvement report

BACKGROUND: The dramatic increase in need for anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) intravitreal therapy in the treatment of retinal disease and the absence of an equivalent increase in ophthalmologists to undertake such intravitreal injections created a patient-safety risk. Timing of...

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Autores principales: Michelotti, Monica M, Abugreen, Salwa, Kelly, Simon P, Morarji, Jiten, Myerscough, Debra, Boddie, Tina, Haughton, Ann, Nixon, Natalie, Mason, Brenda, Sioras, Evangelos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3998867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24790403
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S59982