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ea0104p169 | Other (E.g. Education, Teaching) | SFEIES24

Ensuring sustainability in diabetic retinopathy screening

Smith John , Wright David , Lois Noemi , Stratton Irene , Scanlon Peter

Fixed annual interval screening for referable diabetic retinopathy (RDR) irrespective of the calculable risk of it developing is wasteful and unsustainable in the era of Precision medicine. Prediction models exist that can identify the at-risk and low-risk subgroups and assign screening intervals based on that risk. Using data on 2770 participants followed for a mean of 3.5 years of annual retinopathy grading results combined with twice yearly...