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cord-327050-rrgpkwey	Faes, Livia	A virtual-clinic pathway for patients referred from a national diabetes eye screening programme reduces service demands whilst maintaining quality of care	2020-10-30		.txt	text/plain	4417	218	45	METHODS: This retrospective cohort study included diabetic patients referred by the DESP to either a virtual or a traditional doctor's appointment (face-to-face, F2F) at the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (London, UK) between January 2015 and December 2018. A proportion of referrals is directly triaged to F2F, either those identified by the: (i) DESP to likely to require intervention i.e., proliferative retinopathy, best-corrected visual acuity (VA) below 6/18 Snellen (61 Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy [ETDRS] letters); or (ii) triaging MEH ophthalmologist as unsuitable for a virtual consultation (ungradable fundus image in secondary care, vulnerable adult, lens or media opacities, pregnancy, or requirement of interpreter services). The primary study outcome was the proportion of patients who meet hospital guidelines for initial assessment in VC; Fig. 1 Referral pathway from the NHS diabetic eye screening program (DESP) to Moorfields Eye Hospital.	./cache/cord-327050-rrgpkwey.txt	./txt/cord-327050-rrgpkwey.txt