This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Tsan GL, Hoban KL, Jun W, Riedel KJ, Pedersen AL, Hayes J. Assessment of diabetic teleretinal imaging program at the Portland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2015;52(2):xx–xx. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Assessment of diabetic teleretinal imaging program at the Portland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Grace L. Tsan, OD; Keely L. Hoban, OD; Weon Jun, OD, FAAO; Kevin J. Riedel, OD; Amy L. Pedersen, OD; John Hayes, PhD
This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Tsan GL, Hoban KL, Jun W, Riedel KJ, Pedersen AL, Hayes J. Assessment of diabetic teleretinal imaging program at the Portland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2015;52(2):xx–xx. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Aim – Assess effectiveness of diabetic teleretinal imaging program at Portland VA Medical Center outpatient clinics. Relevance – Early diagnosis and treatment of diabetic retinopathy (DR) is important, because treatment is 90% effective in preventing blindness.
This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Tsan GL, Hoban KL, Jun W, Riedel KJ, Pedersen AL, Hayes J. Assessment of diabetic teleretinal imaging program at the Portland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2015;52(2):xx–xx. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Method Retrospective chart review of 200 diabetic patients who had teleretinal imaging performed between January 1, 2010, and January 1, 2011, at Portland VA Medical Center outpatient clinics.
This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Tsan GL, Hoban KL, Jun W, Riedel KJ, Pedersen AL, Hayes J. Assessment of diabetic teleretinal imaging program at the Portland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2015;52(2):xx–xx. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Results Patients with DR = 20 (10%). Teleretinal imaging studies of adequate quality for interpretation = 90%. Patients referred by image readers to eye clinics for exams = 97.5%. – Patients actually scheduled = 80%. Redundancy rate = 11%. – Patients who had eye exam within past 6 mo. Duplicate recall rate = 37%. – Patients who had 2nd teleretinal imaging within 1 yr of eye exam. Rates of timely diabetic eye exams at clinics with tele- retinal imaging programs, particularly when imaging and eye clinics were at same clinic, were higher than rates for clinics without.
This article and any supplementary material should be cited as follows: Tsan GL, Hoban KL, Jun W, Riedel KJ, Pedersen AL, Hayes J. Assessment of diabetic teleretinal imaging program at the Portland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2015;52(2):xx–xx. Slideshow Project DOI: /JRRD JSP Conclusion Portland VA Medical Center’s teleretinal imaging program was successful in increasing DR screening rate.