Are we making good use of our public resources? The false-positive rate of screening by fundus photography for diabetic macular oedema.

CONCLUSION: The high false-positive rate of the current diabetic macular oedema screening adopted by the United Kingdom and Hong Kong may lead to unnecessary psychological stress for patients and place a financial burden on the health care system. A better way of screening is urgently needed. Performing additional spectral-domain optical coherence tomography scans on selected patients fulfils this need.
PMID: 28684650 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Hong Kong Med J - July 7, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wong RL, Tsang CW, Wong DS, McGhee S, Lam CH, Lian J, Lee JW, Lai JS, Chong V, Wong IY Tags: Hong Kong Med J Source Type: research