What is the cost of blindness?

“…A study conducted in the UK, which took the societal perspective, estimated the costs of blindness for people with age-related macular degeneration. 49 The costs of blindness in this study were h10 134 (h2159-h26 847) in the first year and h9883 (h2080-h26 376) in the second and subsequent years (converted and using the retail price index). The same paper gives an overview of the estimates of the cost of blindness for UK, Scotland, Australia, USA, and Switzerland.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cost-effectiveness of early detection and treatment of ocular hypertension and primary open-angle glaucoma by the ophthalmologist

Peeters

Schouten

Webers

et al. 2006

Eye

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“…Others were also identified who would be at risk of progression of diabetic retinopathy and vision loss if they did not receive future invitations for screening. Although we did not perform a formal cost effectiveness analysis, in 2003, Meads 14 published a review of estimates of the cost of blindness in diabetic retinopathy, and this varied from 4,070-11,250 per annum when equated to 2002 costs. Much of the uncertainty in any sensitivity analysis of the cost of blindness in older people is associated with the cost of residential care.…”

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Updating Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Lists using Automatic Extraction from GP Patient Records

Scanlon

Provins²,

Craske³

et al. 2013

J Med Screen

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Objectives: Diabetic Retinopathy screening services aim to reduce the risk of sight loss amongst patients with diabetes. The rising incidence of diabetes in England and the operational need to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of screening lists led to a pilot study of electronic extraction of data from primary care. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of updating the single collated list of patients eligible for diabetic eye screening using extracts from electronic patient records in primary care. Setting and Methods: The Gloucestershire Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (GDESP) provides screening for 85 General Practices in the county. Of these, 54 using Egton Medical Information Systems (EMIS) practice management system software agreed to participate in this study. The screening list held in 2009 by the Gloucestershire DESP of 14,209 patients known to have diabetes was audited against a list created with automatic extraction from General Practice records of patients marked with the diabetes Read Code C10. Those subsequently screened and referred to the Hospital Eye service were followed up. Results: The Gloucestershire DESP manual list covering the 54 EMIS practices comprised 14,771 people with diabetes. The audit process identified an additional 709 (4.8%) patients coded C10, including 23 diagnosed more than 5 years ago, and 20 patients under the age of 20 who were diagnosed more than a year ago. Conclusion: Automatic extraction of data from General Practice identified 709 patients coded as having diabetes not previously known to the Gloucestershire DESP.

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What is the cost of blindness?

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Improving the economic value of photographic screening for optical coherence tomography-detectable macular oedema: a prospective, multicentre, UK study

Improving the economic value of photographic screening for optical coherence tomography-detectable macular oedema: a prospective, multicentre, UK study

Cost-effectiveness of early detection and treatment of ocular hypertension and primary open-angle glaucoma by the ophthalmologist

Updating Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Lists using Automatic Extraction from GP Patient Records

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