[Assessment of the use of retinography as a screening method for the early diagnosis of chronic glaucoma in Primary Care: Validation for screening in populations with open-angle glaucoma risk factors].

CONCLUSIONS: According to this proposed model, retinography is not a useful tool for the early diagnosis of OAG in Primary Care, as it is not safe enough. Before it can be used, it would need adjustments for its low sensitivity, and the use other combined tests. The training of general practitioners would also need to be improved. PMID: 28126193 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28126193?dopt=Abstract

Source: Atencion Primaria - January 22, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Sánchez González S, Calvo Lozano J, Sánchez González J, Pedregal González M, Cornejo Castillo M, Molina Fernández E, Barral FJ, Pérez Espinosa JR Tags: Aten Primaria Source Type: research