Training retinal imagers for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To report the training/certification process of nonphysician imagers, image quality, and factors that affected image quality in the National Eye Institute sponsored multicentered e-ROP study.

Methods

Nonphysician imagers underwent rigorous training and certification in obtaining retinal images, with attention to clarity, focus, and optic disk placement. Image readers measured pupil size in pupil image and graded posterior pole, temporal, nasal, superior, and inferior retinal images and classified them as good, adequate, poor, or missing. Good and adequate images were deemed acceptable.

Results

In 4,003 image sessions of 1,257 infants, 3,453 (86.8%) were complete. Of 39,550 retinal images, 91.7% had acceptable quality, 5.6% poor, and 2.7% were missing. Inadequa

SUBMITTER: Karp KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4936410 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature