Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Perilli, Roberto
• Di Biagio, Rosamaria
• Seller, Renato
• Ruotolo, Luigi
• Granchelli, Carla
• Marisi, Valeria
• Melena, Stefania
• Consoli, Agostino

Titel

Teleretinography into diabetes integrated care: an Italian experience

Ist Teil von

• Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanità, 2016-10, Vol.52 (4), p.598

Ort / Verlag

Italy: Istituto Superiore di Sanità

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Integrated care, by allowing information exchange among health professionals, improves outcomes and favours a reduction in hospital admission in diabetes. Retinal complications can be sight-threatening, and diabetic patients often miss the suggested yearly clinical examination. Teleretinography can be easily performed in patients attending Diabetes Clinics: images are sent to a remote ophthalmologist, grading and instructions are received and forwarded to General Practitioners by a dedicated software. We here report the results of teleretinography performed in our Diabetes Clinic in 362 patients missing the yearly fundus examination: 253 patients showed no diabetic retinopathy, 86 a mild form, and 23 needed referral to hospital settings. Teleretinography is a user-friendly, time-saving and cost-effective technique, easily integrable into integrated care, allowing a better adherence to guidelines.