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Assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic
The Ophthalmology Student Interest Group at Indiana University School of Medicine provides a free student-run eye screening clinic for an underserved community in Indianapolis. Patients with abnormal findings are referred to the ophthalmology service of the local county hospital for further evaluati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8770480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35046498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05033-0 |
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author | Scheive, Melanie Rowe, Lucas W. Tso, Hanna L. Wurster, Patrick Kalafatis, Nicholas E. Camp, David A. Yung, Chi Wah Rudy |
author_facet | Scheive, Melanie Rowe, Lucas W. Tso, Hanna L. Wurster, Patrick Kalafatis, Nicholas E. Camp, David A. Yung, Chi Wah Rudy |
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description | The Ophthalmology Student Interest Group at Indiana University School of Medicine provides a free student-run eye screening clinic for an underserved community in Indianapolis. Patients with abnormal findings are referred to the ophthalmology service of the local county hospital for further evaluation. This retrospective chart review studied 180 patients referred from our free eye clinic to follow up at the ophthalmology service of a local county hospital from October 2013 to February 2020. This study investigated factors impacting follow-up of patients by analyzing demographics, medical history, insurance coverage, and final diagnoses at follow-up. Thirty-five (19.4%) of 180 patients successfully followed up at the local county hospital with an average time to follow-up of 14.4 (± 15.9) months. Mean patient age was 51 (± 13.6) with nearly equal numbers of males and females. The most common diagnoses at follow-up included refractive error (51.4%), cataract (45.7%), and glaucoma (28.6%). Patients with diabetes diagnoses or Healthy Indiana Plan insurance coverage had increased probability of follow-up. This study reveals gaps in timely follow-up to the local county hospital, demonstrating the current limitations of our free clinic in connecting patients to more definitive care and the need for an improved referral process. |
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spelling | pubmed-87704802022-01-20 Assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic Scheive, Melanie Rowe, Lucas W. Tso, Hanna L. Wurster, Patrick Kalafatis, Nicholas E. Camp, David A. Yung, Chi Wah Rudy Sci Rep Article The Ophthalmology Student Interest Group at Indiana University School of Medicine provides a free student-run eye screening clinic for an underserved community in Indianapolis. Patients with abnormal findings are referred to the ophthalmology service of the local county hospital for further evaluation. This retrospective chart review studied 180 patients referred from our free eye clinic to follow up at the ophthalmology service of a local county hospital from October 2013 to February 2020. This study investigated factors impacting follow-up of patients by analyzing demographics, medical history, insurance coverage, and final diagnoses at follow-up. Thirty-five (19.4%) of 180 patients successfully followed up at the local county hospital with an average time to follow-up of 14.4 (± 15.9) months. Mean patient age was 51 (± 13.6) with nearly equal numbers of males and females. The most common diagnoses at follow-up included refractive error (51.4%), cataract (45.7%), and glaucoma (28.6%). Patients with diabetes diagnoses or Healthy Indiana Plan insurance coverage had increased probability of follow-up. This study reveals gaps in timely follow-up to the local county hospital, demonstrating the current limitations of our free clinic in connecting patients to more definitive care and the need for an improved referral process. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8770480/ /pubmed/35046498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05033-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Scheive, Melanie Rowe, Lucas W. Tso, Hanna L. Wurster, Patrick Kalafatis, Nicholas E. Camp, David A. Yung, Chi Wah Rudy Assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic |
title | Assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic |
title_full | Assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic |
title_fullStr | Assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic |
title_short | Assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic |
title_sort | assessment of patient follow-up from student-run free eye clinic to county ophthalmology clinic |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8770480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35046498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05033-0 |
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