The Department of Endocrinology, 
Screening for diabetic retinopathy in primary care: Future prospects in low-middle income countries.
- Department of Ophthalmology, Schell eye hospital, Christian Medical College, Vellore ,India.
- Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India.
- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore (TN) -632004, India, and Non Communicable Disease Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Vol. 71 · Issue 12 · pp. 2826-2827
PMID 35150549
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Deepthi Elizabeth Kurian, Sanjay Kalra, Nitin Kapoor. Screening for diabetic retinopathy in primary care: Future prospects in low-middle income countries. JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association. 2021;71(12):2826-2827.
Abstract
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an urgent public health concern, and it is prudent to prevent DR than face the burden of blindness arising from it. This requires committed physicians, ophthalmologists, patients as well as policy makers. Blindness rate due to DR has shown a decline in developed countries which is not only due to advanced and accessible tertiary care, but also large-scale screening programmes. Currently, the most common method of screening in low- and middle-income countries is still an opportunistic model. A more practical, cost-effective and systematic screening model is needed, utilizing advances in telemedicine and artificial intelligence.
Keywords
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Screening the eye
- South Asian perspective.
