Factors limiting glaucoma care among glaucoma patients in Nigeria: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Glaucoma currently accounts for 11% of irreversible visual loss worldwide. Due to many factors, patients do not access the glaucoma care pathway and present late with poor vision, while many are undiagnosed or untreated. These factors may be personal-level dispositions or Institutional-level dispositions, limiting the awareness, diagnosis, and treatment of glaucoma or adherence to medications or follow-up clinic visits. This scoping review followed the JBI methodology for scoping reviews and was pre-registered on the open science platform (https://osf.io/wqx57/?view_only=727eb6c803764509a2809e5d0794e214). The PUBMED, EMBASE, WEB OF SCIENCE, AJOL, and GOOGLE SCHOLAR databases were systematically searched for studies published in English between 1990 and June 2023. Data were extracted and an

SUBMITTER: Obasuyi OC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10817109 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature